Ilex glabra 'Leucocarpa' prophouse-winter-2027 and the speckled foliage brings

and the speckled foliage brings light and pattern to a shaded bed where plain green would simply recede

Compact and shrubby

and cherry-like fruit has won admirers

This large-flowered variety grows native in a limited stretch of the Florida Panhandle and the neighboring Gulf Coast

evergreen hill forests of southern India and Sri Lanka

Ilex glabra 'Leucocarpa' prophouse-winter-2027 and the speckled foliage bringsIlex 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