Ilex verticillata x serrata 'Raritan Chief' prophouse-summer-2026 a dwarf pollinizer bred to

a dwarf pollinizer bred to bloom in step with them

'Pink Icicle'

This large growing fern is an uncommon native to swamps in the southern U

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

is a tree that has been useful to people for a very long time

Ilex verticillata x serrata 'Raritan Chief' prophouse-summer-2026 a dwarf pollinizer bred toIlex '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