Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow . The regular species plant for Ilex vomitoria is widely variable in size – ranging from 4 feet to a towering 25 feet tall and it can be 15 feet wide. It is most attractive when you grow it as a small tree that you keep somewhat limbed up and open so you can see the very attractive, smooth gray bark on its branches. In most cases, people enjoy planting a female so they will have the small but very numerous and showy