Winterberry Holly Shrub

It usually grows in damp areas like swamps thickets and along rivers and ponds. Berries add color to the fall and winter landscape and in floral arrangements.

Juniper Hill Winterberry

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Ilex verticillata commonly known as winterberry holly is a north american native shrub that loses its leaves each fall. A handsome holly that produces copious amounts of dark red berries when a male is planted nearby. This beautiful shrub is all the showier because its lack of winter leaves makes its berry display all the brighter. Winterberry is a slow growing shrub with a rounded upright growth habit.

In other words each individual plant bears only one type of flower. It gets its name from the christmas red berries that develop from fertilized flowers and stay on the bare bush stems much of the winter. After the leaves have turned yellow they re also known for their great fall colors and fallen off you are left with thousands of brightly colored berries clinging to every stem. Ilex verticillata winterberry holly or winterberry is our native wetland holly that loses it leaves each autumn.

Winterberry holly is dioecious dye oh ee shus greek for two houses. It typically grows 3 to 15 feet tall and readily suckers to form large thickets. This means that to get a beautiful berry covered winterberry holly. The leaves are dark green and elliptical about 2 to 3 inches long.

Gratuit Ilex Verticillata Holly Berries Deciduous Shrub Winterred