Josh Clark

And they are either a male plant or a female plant, which means they're dioecious.

Yeah, dioecious.

I nailed it.

And the male plants and the female plants both flower, which is how they pollinate, but only the female plants are the ones that produce berries.

Well, yeah, the birds like to eat the berries with the four seeds in them and they go poop them out and a new holly plant grows.

Have you ever looked down and seen a little holly plant sticking up out of the ground?

Yeah.

Me too.

I stomped that thing out.

That means that a bird pooped there at some point.

Yeah, I mean, it's true.

There's really no other way to look at it.

It does, for sure.

Yeah.

There's an old Druid legend that if you eat a holly berry, it'll upset your stomach.

There's also, I had not heard of this, but there's something called bird lime that you can make by boiling the bark of a holly tree specifically.

And it makes this sticky substance that you can then take and paint onto the limbs of, say, a holly tree or any tree.

That's crazy.

And it's so sticky, it'll trap small birds that alight on those limbs.

I guess the only reason you would want to do this is if you want to capture a bird, which you shouldn't be doing anyway.