Ilex verticillata x serrata 'Raritan Chief' prophouse-summer-2026 and is all the more

and is all the more vigorous for the lack

Photo courtesy of the JC Raulston Arboretum

and other shade lovers

'Pink Icicle'

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Ilex verticillata x serrata 'Raritan Chief' prophouse-summer-2026 and is all the moreIlex 'Raritan Chief' is a male winterberry with a long working day. A compact hybrid of the native winterberry, Ilex verticillata, and the Japanese winterberry, Ilex serrata, this deciduous holly was bred as a pollinizer rather than a show plant, and a long bloom season makes 'Raritan Chief' one of the most flexible pollinizers in the group. The name points to the source. 'Raritan Chief' came from the breeding work of Dr. Elwin Orton at Rutgers