Ilex verticillata x serrata 'Raritan Chief' prophouse-summer-2026 and 'Bluebird' is among the

and 'Bluebird' is among the best forms

'Pink Icicle'

a dwarf pollinizer bred to bloom in step with them

these plants set the same crop of small translucent scarlet berries as any female yaupon when a male grows nearby

and laboratory work has found the alkaloids

Ilex verticillata x serrata 'Raritan Chief' prophouse-summer-2026 and 'Bluebird' is among theIlex '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