Viburnum hupehense
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Viburnum hupehense' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Other taxa in genus
- Viburnum acerifolium
- Viburnum betulifolium
- Viburnum × bodnantense
- Viburnum buddleifolium
- Viburnum burejaeticum
- Viburnum × burkwoodii
- Viburnum × carlcephalum
- Viburnum carlesii
- Viburnum cassinoides
- Viburnum cotinifolium
- Viburnum cylindricum
- Viburnum davidii
- Viburnum dentatum
- Viburnum dilatatum
- Viburnum erosum
- Viburnum farreri
- Viburnum foetidum
- Viburnum × globosum
- Viburnum grandiflorum
- Viburnum harryanum
- Viburnum henryi
- Viburnum japonicum
- Viburnum kansuense
- Viburnum lantana
- Viburnum lantanoides
- Viburnum lentago
- Viburnum macrocephalum
- Viburnum molle
- Viburnum nudum
- Viburnum odoratissimum
- Viburnum opulus
- Viburnum phlebotrichum
- Viburnum plicatum
- Viburnum propinquum
- Viburnum prunifolium
- Viburnum rhytidophyllum
- Viburnum rigidum
- Viburnum rufidulum
- Viburnum schensianum
- Viburnum setigerum
- Viburnum sieboldii
- Viburnum suspensum
- Viburnum tinus
- Viburnum utile
- Viburnum veitchii
- Viburnum wilsonii
- Viburnum wrightii
A deciduous shrub, the young shoots stellately hairy the first year, purplish brown the second. Leaves broad-elliptic or roundish ovate, long-pointed, truncate or slightly heart-shaped at the base, coarsely toothed, dark green and covered with loose stellate down above, paler and more downy beneath, 2 to 3 in. long, 11⁄4 to 21⁄4 in. wide, veins in six to eight pairs; leaf-stalk grooved, 1⁄2 to 3⁄4 in. long, densely downy; stipules narrowly lanceolate, downy. Corymbs about 2 in. wide, the main and secondary flower-stalks covered densely with stellate down; branches of the corymb usually five. Fruits egg-shaped, red, 1⁄3 to 2⁄5 in. long. Bot. Mag., n.s., t. 41.
Native of Hupeh and Szechwan, China; discovered by Henry; introduced by Wilson in 1908. It is nearly related to V. dilatatum (from which it differs in its orbicular-ovate leaves, and stipuled leaf-stalks), and to V. betulifolium, from which it is distinct in being downy on both leaf surfaces. As a fruiting shrub it is scarcely inferior to either. Award of Merit 1952.
