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

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'Viburnum erosum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/viburnum/viburnum-erosum/). Accessed 2024-09-20.

Glossary

corolla
The inner whorl of the perianth. Composed of free or united petals often showy.
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
ovoid
Egg-shaped solid.

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

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'Viburnum erosum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/viburnum/viburnum-erosum/). Accessed 2024-09-20.

Viburnum erosum

Muted autumn shades on Viburnum erosum (Yorkshire Arboretum, UK, October 2022). Image John Grimshaw.

A deciduous shrub of erect habit up to 6 ft high; branches slender, covered with pale brown down when young. Leaves oval-ovate or somewhat obovate, wedge-shaped or rounded at the base, pointed; 11⁄2 to 31⁄2 in. long, 1 to 2 in. wide; sharply toothed, stellately downy on both surfaces, especially beneath; stalks 1⁄4 in. or less long. Flowers white, 1⁄6 in. across, produced in May in rather loose, slender, scurfy-stalked, usually five-branched cymes, 2 to 31⁄2 in. across; stamens rather longer than the corolla. Fruits red, roundish-ovoid, 1⁄4 in. long.

Native of Japan and China; introduced by Fortune from China in 1844, later by Maries and by Sargent from Japan. It was cultivated for some years in the Royal Horticultural Society’s garden at Chiswick, but never seems to have secured a permanent place in gardens. It is, perhaps, not perfectly hardy. Among the red-fruited viburnums this species is marked by the stalks of the leaves being so short.

Viburnum erosum

Foliage on Viburnum erosum PW 0005, from the University of British Columbia BG, Canada (21 July 2012). Among the Viburnums in cultivation that have circular glands at the leaf base, this taxon has very short petioles. Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Viburnum erosum

Viburnum erosum from a Townsend-Bridger collection at RBG Kew, UK (19 May 2012). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Viburnum erosum

Lamina lower surface pubescence and tiny circular glands at leaf base on Viburnum erosum PW 0005 (UBC BG, Canada – 21 July 2012). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Viburnum erosum

Short petiole and initial densely pubescent lamina lower surface with tiny glands on Viburnum erosum (a Townsend-Bridger collection at RBG Kew, UK – 19 May 2012). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

V ichangense (Hemsl.) Rehd.

Synonyms
V. erosum var. ichangense Hemsl

This close ally of V. erosum was discovered in Hupeh by Henry, and introduced by Wilson in 1901, and several times since. It flowered at Coombe Wood in 1906. The leaf-stalks are very short, as in V. erosum, but the blades are smaller, ovate-lanceolate, and slender-pointed. The flowers are in smaller cymes, 1 to 1{1/2} in. wide, the stamens are shorter than the corolla; the calyx-tube is conspicuously and densely woolly. Fruits red, as in V. erosum.

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