Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow . Ilex vomitoria has so many cultivars it must be a breeders dream – maybe it is easier to breed dioecious plants as you don’t have to emasculate the male flower structures. One in particular is important to us as it was developed right here in South Carolina and it’s beautiful. Carolina Ruby, a female cultivar of Ilex vomitoria, yaupon, was a single seedling from hundreds that came from a a weeping form of yaupon. Ted