Ilex Glabra Chamzin
Dirr and john h.
Ilex glabra chamzin. The leaves are a deep lustrous green and glisten in sunlight. An excellent choice for foundations hedges and mass plantings or for use as an accent plant. Ilex glabra l gray the inkberry or gallberry is a wallflower among the hollies lurking in the shadows where few gardeners now notice its existence. Ilex glabra chamzin an outstanding carefree and compact shrub that matures at 3 to 4 feet high and wide.
Alexander iii this native evergreen shrub has finally stepped into the landscape limelight. Excellent for foundation hedges masses and as an accent plant. Ilex glabra the inkberry holly michael a. Background of the plant the ilex glabra compacta is of the acuifoliaceae family.
More particularly the present invention relates to a novel cultivar of ilex glabra compacta having unusual and distinctive characteristics which is identified by the varietal reference chamzin of the lake county nursery inc perry ohio. Such a pity for the species a broadleaf evergreen shrub is an under utilized. 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. Ilex glabra shamrock inkberry is an evergreen stoloniferous shrub of compact rounded habit with a slender foliage of thick spineless dark green leaves.
It is native to the coastal plain from nova scotia to florida to louisiana where it is most commonly found in sandy woods and.