Holly seed behaviour can enhance recruitment in semi-open areas, such as forest edges.
Germination in the holly woodland (48%), under the shrubs (46%) and in grassland (46%) were very similar.
Is this proportion different inside the holly woodland, along the forest edge, in open grassland and under isolated shrubs?
A period longer than 1 year is needed for holly germination to begin.
Holly seeds did not germinate until the second year.
First, holly germination was good in the four microhabitats, especially if we consider that this population is not living under its optimum conditions.
Holly's syncopation of the first syllable of 'e - verything' plays on this ambiguity of expectations.
The image of the embryo offsets the image of the mature ilex or holly, whose botanical and medicinal significance complicates the simple idea of redemption with suggestions of physiological movement.
