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Viburnum dilatatum
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Viburnum dilatatum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Synonyms
- Viburnum dilatatum f. xanthocarpum Rehder
Other taxa in genus
- Viburnum acerifolium
- Viburnum atrocyaneum
- Viburnum betulifolium
- Viburnum × bodnantense
- Viburnum buddleifolium
- Viburnum burejaeticum
- Viburnum × burkwoodii
- Viburnum × carlcephalum
- Viburnum carlesii
- Viburnum cassinoides
- Viburnum cinnamomifolium
- Viburnum cotinifolium
- Viburnum cylindricum
- Viburnum dasyanthum
- Viburnum davidii
- Viburnum deamii
- Viburnum dentatum
- Viburnum edule
- Viburnum erosum
- Viburnum erubescens
- Viburnum farreri
- Viburnum foetidum
- Viburnum 'Fulbrook'
- Viburnum furcatum
- Viburnum × globosum
- Viburnum grandiflorum
- Viburnum harryanum
- Viburnum henryi
- Viburnum × hillieri
- Viburnum hupehense
- Viburnum japonicum
- Viburnum 'Juddii'
- Viburnum kansuense
- Viburnum lantana
- Viburnum lantanoides
- Viburnum lentago
- Viburnum lobophyllum
- Viburnum macrocephalum
- Viburnum molle
- Viburnum mullaha
- Viburnum nudum
- Viburnum odoratissimum
- Viburnum 'Oneida'
- Viburnum opulus
- Viburnum orientale
- Viburnum parvifolium
- Viburnum phlebotrichum
- Viburnum plicatum
- Viburnum plicatum cultivars
- Viburnum 'Pragense'
- Viburnum propinquum
- Viburnum prunifolium
- Viburnum rafinesqueanum
- Viburnum recognitum
- Viburnum × rhytidocarpum
- Viburnum × rhytidophylloides
- Viburnum rhytidophyllum
- Viburnum rufidulum
- Viburnum rugosum
- Viburnum sargentii
- Viburnum schensianum
- Viburnum setigerum
- Viburnum sieboldii
- Viburnum suspensum
- Viburnum sympodiale
- Viburnum tinus
- Viburnum treleasei
- Viburnum trilobum
- Viburnum utile
- Viburnum veitchii
- Viburnum wrightii
A deciduous shrub, 6 to 10 ft high (sometimes taller), with erect stems; young branchlets very downy. Leaves broadly ovate, roundish or obovate; 2 to 5 in. long, and from half to about as much wide, widely toothed, pointed, tapering, rounded or heart-shaped at the base, hairy on both sides; stalk 1⁄4 to 3⁄4 in. long; veins in five to eight pairs. Flowers pure white, all fertile, 1⁄4 in. across, produced in June in hairy, stalked, mostly five-rayed cymes, 3 to 5 in. across. Fruits bright red, roundish ovoid, 1⁄3 in. long. Bot. Mag., t. 6215.
Native of Japan and China; it first flowered with Messrs Veitch in 1875 and had attained a height of 20 ft in their nursery by 1900. This fine viburnum is remarkably profuse in its flowering, the trusses being produced not only at the top of the branch but from short twigs down the sides as well. It is even more beautiful in its fruits but does not set them freely unless at least two seedlings, or plants of different clones, are grown. Obviously clones of known character are preferable and with this point in mind two were selected and named by Donald Egolf at the United States National Arboretum in 1958 – ‘Catskill’ and ‘Iroquois’ (Baileya, Vol. 14 (1966), pp. 109–12).
The yellow-fruited form, originally described from a plant cultivated in the USA but also known in Japan, has been recognised as V. dilatatum f. xanthocarpum Rehder (referred by POWO (12/5/2025) to var. dilatatum). Bot. Mag., n.s., t. 103. A.M. 1936.
