Japanese name: ハイイヌツゲ（這犬黄楊） Scientific name:Ilex crenata var. radicans
[Overview]
An evergreen shrub 0.5–1.2 m tall, found in heavy-snow areas on the Sea of Japan side.
The lower part of the trunk creeps along the ground.
Young branches are angular and densely hairy.
The leaves are simple and densely alternate, slightly smaller than those of Inu-tsuge, elliptical, thick, with a few serrations on the margin.
The petiole is 1–2 mm long.
The plant is dioecious.
In both male and female plants, flowers are borne in the leaf axils of the current year's branches; male flowers are borne 2–6 in umbels, and female flowers are solitary.
The flowers are small, white and 4-petaled.
The fruit is spherical, 6–7 mm in diameter, and ripens black.
