Ilex hayatana

Ilex hayatana is a species of flowering plant in the holly family Aquifoliaceae, native to Taiwan. There is some confusion about the identity of this species; for example Flora of China states that it is an evergreen tree with "palegrayblack" bark reaching 12 m tall, found in forests at 200 to 300 m a.s.l., and also native to Japan, but the International Dendrology Society states that the original specimen, which is still alive, lives at 1900 m and was described as either an 18 m tree or a 4 m shrub.