Ilex glabra 'Leucocarpa' prophouse-winter-2027 for this is a member

for this is a member of the protea family

the long branches pinned flat into a living tracery of changeable leaves

nothing to live up to but the flower itself

Compact and shrubby

roughly zone 7 and below

Ilex glabra 'Leucocarpa' prophouse-winter-2027 for this is a memberIlex glabra 'Leucocarpa' is the white berried surprise among the inkberries, a native evergreen holly that trades the usual near black fruit for berries of clean ivory white. On the ordinary inkberry the dark berries all but vanish against the deep green leaves, but here the pale fruit stands out cleanly and holds on the branches from fall right through to spring, a quiet, unexpected show in the winter garden. Behind the novelty stands one of the