Viburnum buddleifolium C. H. Wright

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Viburnum buddleifolium' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/viburnum/viburnum-buddleifolium/). Accessed 2024-09-19.

Genus

Viburnum

Other taxa in genus

Glossary

cyme: Branched determinate inflorescence with a flower at the end of each branch. cymose In the form of a cyme.
lanceolate: Lance-shaped; broadest in middle tapering to point.
perfect: (botanical) All parts present and functional. Usually referring to both androecium and gynoecium of a flower.
simple: (of a leaf) Unlobed or undivided.
stellate: Star-shaped.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Viburnum buddleifolium' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/viburnum/viburnum-buddleifolium/). Accessed 2024-09-19.

Viburnum buddleifolium at Gredington, Shropshire, UK, April 2012. Image John Grimshaw.

A deciduous shrub about 6 ft high; the young shoots densely covered with pale, star-like down. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 3 to 5 in. long, 1 to 2 in. wide, pointed, rounded or slightly heart-shaped at the base, shallowly toothed; upper surface furnished with simple or forked hairs, the lower one felted with pale, stellate down; stalk 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 in. long. Flowers white, funnel-shaped, 1⁄3 in. across, all perfect, produced on a short-stalked, numerously branched cyme, 3 in. across. Fruits oval, 1⁄3 in. long, black.

Native of Central China; discovered and introduced by Wilson in 1900. It belongs to the Lantana group, differing from V. lantana in its narrow, oblong leaves. It has no ornamental value.

Flowering branchlets and leaves, with the lamina ovate to oblong-lanceolate, on Viburnum buddleifolium at Arboretum Les Arbres du Monde au Huelgoat, France (16 August 2012). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Starry down covers the petioles and bud on Viburnum buddleifolium (Arboretum Les Arbres du Monde au Huelgoat, France – 16 August 2012). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Dark green lamina upper surface with scattered long hairs on Viburnum buddleifolium (Arboretum Les Arbres du Monde au Huelgoat, France – 16 August 2012). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Pale lamina lower surface, with stellate pubescence on Viburnum buddleifolium (Arboretum Les Arbres du Monde au Huelgoat, France – 16 August 2012). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

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