Don't confuse this native with the two highly invasive ardisias: coral ardisia (A. crentata) and shoebutton ardisia (A. elliptica). While this will grown in full shade, it blooms better in part sun to sun.

Marlberry (Ardisia escallonioides) is an evergreen shrub or tree found in coastal strands and hammocks and pine rocklands throughout Central and South Florida. It blooms and fruits intermittently throughout the year, with peak blooming summer through fall.

This document provides an overview of the marlberry (Ardisia escallonioides), a shrub native to Florida and the Caribbean. It describes the plant’s physical characteristics, including its height, leaf arrangement, and flower and fruit features.

Marlberry is a tall, columnar shrub found in Central and South Florida in inland forests and maritime hammocks up to North Florida. Marlberry can take full sun or deep shade, moist soil or dry and short term flooding.

Ardisia escallonioides, the Island marlberry, is a plant species native to the West Indies and neighboring areas. It has been reported from Barbados , Bermuda , the Dominican Republic , Cuba , Mexico , Belize , Guatemala and Florida .

Marlberry is a 12- to 15-foot-tall shrub native to Florida and the Caribbean region that has a very important place in planting design. It often occurs naturally with Sabal Palms and Stoppers. The dark green, semiglossy leaves of this shrub are 3 to 4 1⁄2 inches long.

Ardisia (coralberry or marlberry) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Primulaceae. It was in the former Myrsinaceae family now recognised as the myrsine sub-family Myrsinoideae. [1] They are distributed in the Americas, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands, mainly in the tropics. [2] [3] There are over 700 accepted species. [4]

Native throughout Central and South Florida, Island Marlberry is a tough, resilient plant valued for its beauty and its resistance to drought and salt. Versatile, it can grow in sunny and shady landscapes, as a specimen plant or as an evergreen hedge or screen.

Fruits: Green drupes that ripen to shiny black, to 1 cm, found in clusters near the branch ends any time of year; edible, eaten by birds and small mammals. Habitat: Marlberry is common in the understory of hammocks and pinelands. Growth Form: Shrub to small tree.

Marlberry is a Florida native, actually found only in Florida among the 50 states. Its range includes Central and South Florida. It's also found in the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America.