Mid-Atlantic Gardening: FALL FOLIAGE AND BERRIES END OF SEASON PICS!!, 1 by Muddy1

Muddy1 wrote:
Thanks for your encouraging words, VV. The shrub is still rooted, but there is so much damage (on top of browse damage done last year) that I think I'll buy another Sparkleberry and plant it right next to it. Otherwise, it will look terrible for years to come.

I don't know whether the buck was just trying to rub against it, or was treating it as a competing male that needed to be destroyed, but whatever the case, it broke off most of the stems. Those piles of branches on the ground are the remains.