cuttings of ‘Shamrock’ inkberry holly and ‘Henry's Garnet’ sweetspire (Spring Meadow Nursery, Grand Haven, MI) were planted into trade gal pots with drainage holes. Liners were ≈6 months old at planting. At planting, root balls were submersed in a solution
methods Ten native Florida taxa (beautyberry, fringe tree, inkberry, yaupon holly, virginia sweetspire, wax myrtle, chickasaw plum, saw palmetto, walter's viburnum, and coontie) and 10 nonnative taxa (golden dewdrop, cape jasmine, crape myrtle, japanese
recommended to promote adventitious root formation on stem cuttings of Heller’s japanese holly ( Berry, 1994 ; Dirr and Heuser, 1987 ). Stem cuttings of other hollies, including ‘Dwarf Burford’ holly ( Ilex cornuta ), ‘Nigra’ inkberry ( Ilex glabra ), and
Ilex , a member of the Aquifoliaceae (holly family), comprises more than 500 deciduous and evergreen shrubs or trees with economic importance as crops and ornamentals in tropical and temperate regions of the world ( Galle, 1997 ; Hu, 1989
(NAA). In a study examining the application of auxin to cuttings via the rooting substrate, Blythe et al. (2004) noted that cuttings of dwarf yaupon holly ( Ilex vomitoria ‘Nana’) and ‘Nigra’ inkberry ( Ilex glabra ) prepared in January could be
experience alternating periods of flooding and drying. Dylewski et al. (p. 461) evaluated three native woody landscape shrubs for tolerance to repeated short-term flooding events. Sweetspire, inkberry holly, and possumhaw all maintained growth and good
the rooting rate, while lower concentrations of IBA (2.07 µM) and NAA (2.23 µM) had less effectiveness in rooting. The results were in general agreement with previous reports on the rooting of English holly ( Majada et al., 2000 ) and inkberry ( Sun et
Papers Cross-hybrid Compatibility of Inkberry with Meserve Holly and Common Winterberry Youping Sun*, Donglin Zhang, and Lijuan Han, Department of Plant, Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469 Inkberry [ Ilex glabra
withstand alternating wet and dry periods. On 16 June 2008, 30 rooted stem cuttings [0.25 L (2.25 inches)] of Viburnum nudum L. ‘Winterthur’ (possumhaw), Ilex glabra (L.) A. Gray. ‘Shamrock’ (inkberry holly), and Itea virginica L. ‘Henry's Garnet