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Viburnum furcatum Blume ex Maxim.

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'Viburnum furcatum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/viburnum/viburnum-furcatum/). Accessed 2026-06-15.

Family

  • Viburnaceae

Genus

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corolla
The inner whorl of the perianth. Composed of free or united petals often showy.

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Viburnum furcatum

Ripe fruit and early 'autumn' colour on Viburnum furcatum at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (20031028*I, from EJE 113). 6 July 2024. Image Tom Christian.

The Japanese ally of V. lantanoides (also found in Taiwan), needing the same conditions. This also has the showy sterile marginal flowers, but its stems are more uniformly erect. It differs also in the shorter stamens, which are only half the length of the corolla, and in the shape of the furrow in the seed. The foliage turns brilliant scarlet to reddish purple in autumn. It is a bush 12 ft or more high in the wild. Introduced in 1892.

Viburnum furcatum

Viburnum furcatum at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (20031028*F, from EJE 113). 17 March 2024. Image Tom Christian.

Viburnum furcatum

Viburnum furcatum at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (20031028*F, from EJE 113). 17 March 2024. Image Tom Christian.

Viburnum furcatum

Coarsely doubly-dentate lamina margin on Viburnum furcatum (Arboretum Wespelaar, Belgium – 5 July 2012). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Viburnum furcatum

This Viburnum furcatum specimen shows leaves with rather orbicular lamina, taken at Arboretum Het Leen Eeklo, Belgium (4 June 2010). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Viburnum furcatum

Large beautifully shaped leaf on Viburnum furcatum (Arboretum Wespelaar, Belgium – 5 July 2012). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Viburnum furcatum

Typical leaves with broadly cordate-ovate multiveined lamina on Viburnum furcatum (Arboretum Wespelaar, Belgium – 5 July 2012). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Viburnum furcatum

Lamina lower surface with stellate pubescence on Viburnum furcatum (Arboretum Wespelaar, Belgium – 5 July 2012). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Viburnum furcatum

Sometimes the lamina basal lobes on Viburnum furcatum overlap (Arboretum Wespelaar, Belgium – 5 July 2012). overlap Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Viburnum furcatum

Bud and petioles on Viburnum furcatum covered in stellate pubescence (Arboretum Wespelaar, Belgium – 5 July 2012). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Viburnum furcatum

Foliage on Viburnum furcatum, once growing at Arboretum Wespelaar, Belgium (5 July 2012). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

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