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Viburnum erosum
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Viburnum erosum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Synonyms
- Viburnum ichangense (Hemsl.) Rehder
- Viburnum erosum var. ichangense Hemsl.
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 dilatatum
- Viburnum edule
- 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
Editorial Note
Bean recognised Viburnum ichangense as a distinct species. The text below has been adapted to update the taxonomy.
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.
A form discovered in Hupeh by Henry and introduced by Wilson in 1901 (and several times thereafter) was formerly accorded species status as V. ichangense. It has smaller, ovate-lanceolate, and slender-pointed leaves, flowers in smaller cymes (1 to 11⁄2 in. wide), and stamens shorter than the corolla; the calyx-tube is conspicuously and densely woolly. It flowered at Coombe Wood in 1906.
