What is ILEX?

Answer 1

Holly (Ilex) is a genus of about 400 species of flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only genus in that family. They are shrubs and trees from 2-25 m tall, with a wide distribution in Asia, Europe, north Africa, and North and South America. The leaves are simple, and can be either deciduous or evergreen depending on the species, and may be entire, finely toothed, or with widely-spaced, spine-tipped leaves. Hollies are mostly dioecious, with male and female flowers on different plants, with some exceptions. Pollination is mainly by bees and other insects. The fruit is a small berry, usually red when mature, with one to ten seeds

Answer 2

Legal Executives are qualified lawyers, working alongside solicitors and barristers.

With a minimum of 4 GCSE’s, graded A to C, one being English; A’Levels or a degree you too can become a qualified lawyer with ILEX!

Study at your local college or learning centre by day release or evening classes. If you wish, study at home – ILEX Tutorial College offer the ILEX courses by distance learning.

It takes approximately 4 years to qualify – DON’T BE PUT OFF! – you will be working and studying at the same time – earning and learning!

The first 2 years are set at A-Level standard and the final 2 years are set at degree level. ILEX offers the opportunity for you to qualify as a lawyer with or without a degree.

Job opportunities for Legal Executives are expanding all the time. There will always be criminals for the criminal lawyers to defend – or prosecute! People always want to buy and sell their houses – you could be a conveyancer! These are just a couple of examples – there are lots of varied opportunities out there.

Answer 3

Ilex is the latin name for holly

Answer 4

Holly (Ilex) is a genus of about 400 species of flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only genus in that family. They are shrubs and trees from 2-25 m tall, with a wide distribution in Asia, Europe, north Africa, and North and South America. The leaves are simple, and can be either deciduous or evergreen depending on the species, and may be entire, finely toothed, or with widely-spaced, spine-tipped leaves. Hollies are mostly dioecious, with male and female flowers on different plants, with some exceptions. Pollination is mainly by bees and other insects. The fruit is a small berry, usually red when mature, with one to ten seeds.


Hollies (here, Ilex aquifolium) are dioecious: (above) shoot with flowers from male plant; (top right) male flower enlarged, showing stamens with pollen and reduced, sterile stigma; (below) shoot with flowers from female plant; (lower right) female flower enlarged, showing stigma and reduced, sterile stamens with no pollen.Holly berries are mildly toxic and will cause vomiting and/or diarrhea when ingested by people. However they are extremely important food for numerous species of birds, and also are eaten by other wild animals. In the fall and early winter the berries are hard and apparently unpalatable. After being frozen or frosted several times, the berries soften, and become edible. During winter storms, birds often take refuge in hollies, which provide shelter, protection from predators (by the spiny leaves), and food. The flowers are sometimes eaten by the larva of the Double-striped Pug moth. Other Lepidoptera whose larvae feed on holly include Bucculatrix ilecella (which feeds exclusively on holly) and The Engrailed.

The species Ilex mucronata, formerly treated in a separate genus Nemopanthus, is now included in Ilex on molecular data (Powell et al. 2000).


[edit] Uses

American Winterberry foliage and berriesIn many Western cultures, holly is a traditional Christmas decoration, used especially in wreaths. Many of the hollies are highly decorative, and are widely used as ornamental plants in gardens and parks. The wood is heavy, hard and white; one traditional use is for chess pieces, with holly for the white pieces, and ebony for the black. Other uses include turnery, inlay work and as firewood. Looms in the 1800s used holly for the spinning rod. Because holly is dense and can be sanded very smooth, the rod was less likely than other woods to snag threads being used to make cloth.


Trunk and leaves of a variegated holly bush.Several American holly species are used to make various caffeine rich teas. The South American I. paraguariensis is used to make yerba mate, a common drink. I. guayusa is used both as a stimulant and as an admixture to the entheogenic tea ayahuasca; The leaves of I. guayusa have the highest caffeine content of any known plant. In Northern and Central America, I. vomitoria, Yaupon, was used by southeastern American Indians as a ceremonial stimulant and emetic known as the black drink. As the name suggests, the tea's purgative properties were one of its main uses, most often ritually. In China, the young leaf buds of I. kudingcha are processed in a method similar to green tea to make a tisane called Ku Ding tea.

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Order: Aquifoliales

Family: Aquifoliaceae

Genus: Ilex
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Species
Ilex ambigua - Sand Holly
Ilex amelanchier - Swamp Holly
Ilex aquifolium - European Holly
Ilex bioritsensis
Ilex buergeri
Ilex canariensis - Small-leaved Holly
Ilex cassine - Dahoon Holly
Ilex centrochinensis
Ilex ciliospinosa
Ilex colchica
Ilex collina
Ilex corallina
Ilex coriacea
Ilex cornuta - Chinese Holly
Ilex crenata - Japanese Holly
Ilex cyrtura
Ilex decidua - Possumhaw
Ilex dehongensis
Ilex dimorphophylla
Ilex dipyrena - Himalayan Holly
Ilex fargesii
Ilex geniculata
Ilex georgei
Ilex glabra - Gallberry, Inkberry
Ilex goshiensis
Ilex guayusa
Ilex integra
Ilex intricata
Ilex kingiana
Ilex kudingcha
Ilex kusanoi
Ilex laevigata
Ilex latifolia - Tarajo Holly
Ilex leucoclada
Ilex longipes
Ilex macrocarpa
Ilex macropoda
Ilex mitis
Ilex montana - Mountain Winterberry
Ilex mucronata - Mountain Holly
Ilex myrtifolia - Myrtle Holly
Ilex nothofagifolia
Ilex opaca - American Holly
Ilex paraguariensis - Yerba Mate
Ilex pedunculosa
Ilex perado - Madeiran Holly
Ilex pernyi - Perny's Holly
Ilex pringlei
Ilex pubescens
Ilex purpurea
Ilex rotunda
Ilex rugosa
Ilex serrata - Japanese Winterberry
Ilex sikkimensis
Ilex spinigera
Ilex sugerokii
Ilex tolucana
Ilex verticillata - American Winterberry
Ilex vomitoria - Yaupon Holly
Ilex wilsonii
Ilex yunnanensis

Answer 5

ILEX (I'lex). DESCRIPTION: This group consists of about 400 evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubs as well as numerous hybrids and cultivars

Answer 6

ilex is the botanical name for ivy.

Answer 7

Holly and thank you for a seasonable question