Calvary Episcopal Church Hollies, Fletcher, NC  February 12, 2009 
  James Parton

Sir Doug of the Hollies and fellow ENTS,

Doug's outstanding post on American Hollies has got me thinking about finding large outstanding specimens of evergreen holly, American and otherwise. I remembered seeing a couple of larger Am holly at Calvary Episcopal Church in Fletcher NC. The church/cemetery grounds has quite a collection of nice trees. I measured 4 holly trees there today. One turned out to be 62 feet tall, being the tallest I have measured to date barely edging out a 60 foot forest tree I found on Kings Mountain just outside of Dana NC. I await Congaree's giant hollies and also would like to search the smokies for big hollies.

http://www.nativetreesociety.org/fieldtrips/north_carolina/calvary_ch...

http://www.nativetreesociety.org/fieldtrips/north_carolina/calvary_ch...

http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/383c1df...

Here are the measurements for the American Hollies at Calvary Episcopal Church.

4' cbh             42.3 feet tall    Beautiful tree!
4' cbh             62.0 feet tall !  Near two nice oriental spruce.
6' 7 1/2" cbh    57.2 feet tall   Double-Trunked
4' 2" cbh         37.4 feet tall   Bushy

I also measured a white pine at 9 ft in girth and 104.2' tall which probably makes it the tallest tree at Calvary.

Mentioning Holly, here is an organization which centers on the Ilex group of trees.

http://www.hollysocam.org/

James Parton

 

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