inkberry

Another holly that certainly deserves more attention is I. glabra, commonly known as inkberry.

Some of the shrubs that do well include inkberry, leucothoe and most of the spruces.

These include the native inkberry (I. glabra) and the small-leaved Japanese holly (I. crenata).

Barenblat co-founded Inkberry, a literary arts non-profit organization, with Sandy Ryan and Emily Banner.

One of them, Ilex glabra, the native inkberry, with its almost black berries, has won great fame in the Northeast as it appears to be resistant to deer browse.

Ilex glabra - Evergreen Winterberry, Bitter Gallberry, Inkberry (Eastern North America)

So do a few others like the native inkberry (I. glabra) with its black berries and the winterberry (I. verticillata) which drops its leaves and the scarlet red berries shine forth.

Ilex glabra, also known as Appalachian Tea, Dye-leaves, Evergreen Winterberry, Gallberry, Inkberry, is a species of holly native to Eastern North America in the United States and Canada.

Beachberry or Inkberry (Scaevola plumieri) is widespread along the Atlantic coast of the tropical Americas and Africa; however, it is becoming rarer in areas where S. taccada is displacing native coastal plants.

For example, Twombly Nursery in Monroe has found that deer do not eat the native inkberry, Ilex glabra, yet the popular Meserve holly hybrids are at the top of many researchers' lists as preferred deer browse plants.

Coralberry, Deciduous Holly, Deciduous Winterberry, False alder, Fever bush, Inkberry, Michigan Holly, Possumhaw, Swamp Holly, Virginian Winterberry, or Winterberry Holly.