Ilex Glabra Berry
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Ilex glabra berry. Inkberry ilex gabra is a form of evergreen holly that is very easy to grow. Threatened and endangered information. Love boxwood but struggle with disease or winter damage. These attractive plants fill a number of landscaping uses from shorter hedges to tall specimen plantings.
It works well massed in border plantings or as an informal hedge plant. Ilex glabra commonly called inkberry or gallberry is a slow growing upright rounded stoloniferous broadleaf evergreen shrub in the holly family. It maintains good branching right to the ground so it never looks bare legged. Ilex glabra also known as appalachian tea dye leaves evergreen winterberry gallberry and inkberry is a species of evergreen holly native to the coastal plain of eastern north america from coastal nova scotia to florida and west to louisiana where it is most commonly found in sandy woods and peripheries of swamps and bogs.
Full sun 6 hours part sun 4 6 hours full shade up to 4 hours. However there are no compatible males currently on the market to ensure the cross pollination required for fruit to form. This native evergreen naturally grows as a broadly rounded mound and keeps its. While the berries aren t edible for humans many birds and small animals are fond of them in the winter.
This plant has no children legal status. Gem box ilex glabra smnigab17 uspp 27 554 can 5 629. Gem box inkberry holly is a female variety and can potentially develop berries. This plant is listed by the u s.
Gray inkberry subordinate taxa. Native alternative to boxwood. Common names are from state and federal lists. Inkberry holly shrubs ilex glabra also known as gallberry shrubs are native to the southeastern united states.
Ilex glabra shamrock inkberry is an evergreen stoloniferous shrub of compact rounded habit with a slender foliage of thick spineless dark green leaves. Ilex glabra gem box inkberry is a dwarf broadleaf evergreen of compact rounded habit with a lush foliage of small dainty dark green leaves adorned with attractive red tips during the spring flush. Tearing out a mature inkberry holly ilex glabra shrub is hard work as a diy project and expensive to hire out. Click on a place name to get a complete protected plant list for that location.
Ilex glabra l a. The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive.