Viburnum davidii Franch.

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

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'Viburnum davidii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/viburnum/viburnum-davidii/). Accessed 2025-06-22.

Family

  • Viburnaceae

Genus

Glossary

androdioecious
With only male or only hermaphrodite flowers on individual plants.

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Credits

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

Recommended citation
'Viburnum davidii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/viburnum/viburnum-davidii/). Accessed 2025-06-22.

An evergreen shrub of apparently low, compact habit, and about 3 to 5 ft high; young branches warted. Leaves leathery, narrowly oval or slightly obovate, tapered at the base, more slenderly so at the apex; 2 to 6 in. long, 1 to 212 in. wide; strongly and conspicuously three-veined, often obscurely or shallowly toothed near the apex, dark green above, pale below, glabrous on both surfaces except for small tufts of down in the vein-axils beneath; stalk 14 to 1 in. long. Flowers dull white, 18 in. wide, densely crowded in stalked stiff cymes, 2 to 3 in. across. Fruits blue, 14 in. long, narrow oval. Bot. Mag., t. 8980.

V. davidii is a native of western China, and was introduced by Wilson for Messrs Veitch in 1904. Whether or not it is actually dioecious, it is so in effect, but many nurserymen now offer both ‘male’ and ‘female’ plants, and both must be grown if the beautiful fruits are to be seen. It received an Award of Merit for these in 1971.