Photographs
- Plant(s)
- Ilex ×wandoensis (Aquifoliaceae)
Wando Island holly - Key Words
- Ilex ×wandoensis naturally occurring hybrid of Ilex cornuta with Ilex integra originating on Wando
- Other Notes
- "It was imperative to explore on Wando Island (34_ 20' N, 126_ 50' E; Chollanam do Province) at the southern tip of the Korean mainland. This was where C. Ferris Miller about 8 years ago discovered a large population of the naturally occurring hybrid between I. cornuta and I. integra, later to be known as I. x wandoensis hybrida nova. I have not yet officially published the name I. x wandoensis in ed. for this beautiful and very polymorphic hybrid. It will be published soon with the appropriate detailed description and required documentation now that the essential information has been accumulated in the field. We went to the precise locality where Ferris Miller discovered it and where Barry Yinger had visited with Mr. Miller in 1980. To our absolute dismay and disappointment we could not find any plants of I. x wandoensis in ed., but we did find a great many holes dug on the steep hillsides. In their enthusiasm to provide plants for bonsai, Korean entrepreneurs had annihilated the entire original population! However, a fair number of plants dug from the wild were found in gardens on Wando. A native grove of I. integra had some plants that were 10 meters tall and wide with trunks 0.7 and 1.3 meters in diameter. A few short, 3-meter tall single-trunked I. macropoda were a]so observed. The Ilex planted in the Hwa Hong schoolyard were well documented earlier by Ferris Miller; possibly the most spectacular plant of I. x wandoensis in ed. ever seen by anyone is cultivated at this school. It is about 10 meters tall with very dense dark foliage to the base and has been trimmed precisely to 3 flat sides giving it a true "pyramid" shape. This female in heavy fruit was originally dug in the wild. The label on this schoolyard specimen unfortunately identifies it as I. cornuta. Several other male and female plants of I. x wandoensis in ed. were present on the school grounds as well as "true" I. cornuta, I. integra and I. crenata. The return visit to Wando in October will emphasize seed and cutting collections from this tree and the others located in several gardens and in the wild. At a different locality on Wando (Taeshin Ri) we discovered a remnant nonfruiting wild population of I. x wandoensis, in deep shade. The hillsides all around were pocked with holes where this Ilex had once existed. Actually the hybrid was fairly evident in cultivation on Wando, and in front of a bank we spotted, in the first week of September, a very early-ripening, small-leaved expression, a variant of the hybrid that I had not seen before. Ilex integra occurred at several wild localities on Wando, but mostly as second-growth sprouts which will develop into reproducible trees if left alone. Because of earlier collections made by Miller and Yinger we know that I. cornuta was also native to Wando." Ted Dudley 1985 trip report
- Location
- Wando island
- Country
- South Korea
- Date Taken
- September 1985
- Photographer
- J. C. Raulston
- Collection
- J. C. Raulston's Slide Collection
- Image Name
- 086-0356.JPG
- Image ID
- 52826