Also call black alder tree , winterberry ( Ilex verticillata ) is a coinage of deciduous holly that display its red or chickenhearted berries on naked stems in later fall into midwinter . Native to moist sphere of southeastern North America , it bears male and distaff flush on dissimilar plants , requiring bees to facilitate pollenation . Ensure at least one male - flowering works is within 100 foot of female - flowering shrubs . Only distaff bush can bear the cosmetic fruit that also provide food for thought to famish songbirds .
Jim Dandy
" Jim Dandy " is a male - flowering winterberry that is needed to pollinate other early - spring blossom female Ilex decidua plant . It is sometimes also marketed as " Dwarf Male . " It is slow growing and matures to only 5 feet tall and 5 feet wide .
Southern Gentleman
habituate " Southern Gentleman " to cross-pollinate nearby previous - spring blooming distaff winterberry plants . It grows to 8 foot tall and equally encompassing , so place it in the rear of a shrub perimeter in a hard-nosed but not centrally seeable location .
Winter Red
The most popularly develop distaff bearberry , according to The Ohio State University , is " Winter Red . " This distaff grows 8 feet marvellous and equally as full and needs a late - flowering male pollinator bush nearby , such as " southerly Gentleman . "
Winter Gold
A mutation from " Winter Red , " " Winter Gold " produces golden orange berries with hint of pink . It also need a late season male - bloom pollinator like " Southern Gentleman . " The female " Winter Gold " grow 10 metrical unit marvelous and wide .
Red Sprite
Perfectly sized for smaller residential foundation bottom and garden , " Red Sprite " grows 4 feet improbable and wide . This female needs an early blooming male pollinator like " Jim Dandy " closing curtain - by . " Red Sprite " may also be trade with the name " Nana " or " Compacta . "
Shaver
The orange - red berries of the female " Shaver " are birth in profusion and prevail well into the depths of winter . This bush farm 6 feet tall and wide and needs a male shrub like " Southern Gentleman " nearby to facilitate well timed pollination .
Sunsplash
Rarely encounter in plant nurseries is this distaff shrub that bears flushed fruits and green leave-taking mottled with yellow . It is among the ho-hum produce selection .
Stoplight
sheeny green leafage and plump , inscrutable red berries mould on " Stoplight , " also called " Hopperton . " Growing to 8 foot tall and encompassing , use an early manly blooming pollinator such as " Jim Dandy . "
Cacapon
Growing 5 to 7 substructure marvelous and only 4 to 5 pes wide , the more upright - mold female bush named " Cacapon " produces scarlet Charles Edward Berry . It needs " Jim Dandy " or any other other flowering male person bush to pollinate it .
Afterglow
With slightly smaller leaves than other Ilex decidua shrubs , " Afterglow " tends to have more densely growing branches but still manages to mature nearly 10 feet magniloquent and wide . Its reddish orangeness berries mature to a more true orangish vividness by mid - fall . employ " Jim Dandy " as the early time of year pollinate male person bush .
Aurantiaca
Only 5 infantry marvelous and wide , " Aurantiaca " need an early blooming male person like " Jim Dandy " for pollenation . The berries are orange - red and then fade to golden orange .
Chrysocarpa
This yellow - berried course of the furious species is sometimes regarded as a cultivar . It uprise upwards of 7 infantry marvellous and equally wide . It call for an other male flowering pollinator companion such as " Jim Dandy . "
