INKBERRY (Ilex glabra), a North American shrub of the holly genus (family Aquifoliaceae), known also as evergreen winter-berry and Appalachian tea, native to sandy soil from Nova Scotia to Florida and west to Louisiana, mostly near the coast. It is a small shrub, 2 ft. to 6 ft. high, with leathery, evergreen, oblong, usually slightly toothed leaves ; small white flowers, soli tary or sometimes two or three together, borne on short slender stalks in the axils of the leaves, and black berry-like (drupe), about in. in diameter, ripening in autumn. Among other plants called ink-berry are the West Indian indigo-berry (Randia aculeata) and the widely distributed poke-berry (Phytolacca decandra). The Australian or Queensland ink-berry is Mollinedia macrophylla, a plant of the family Monimiaceae. (See HOLLY; POKEBERRY.)