Viburnum phlebotrichum
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Viburnum phlebotrichum' 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 hupehense
- Viburnum japonicum
- Viburnum kansuense
- Viburnum lantana
- Viburnum lantanoides
- Viburnum lentago
- Viburnum macrocephalum
- Viburnum molle
- Viburnum nudum
- Viburnum odoratissimum
- Viburnum opulus
- 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 shrub to about 8 ft high, slenderly branched, the branchlets glabrous or slightly downy. Leaves thin, ovate or elliptic, up to 31⁄2 in. long (longer on extension growths), glabrous or slightly downy above, appressed-hairy on the veins beneath, coarsely and sharply serrate, the teeth tipped with horny mucros; petioles to about 5⁄8 in. long. Inflorescences terminating short two-leaved laterals, rather few-flowered, about 2 in. wide, more or less pendulous. Flowers white, small. Stamens shorter than the corolla-lobes. Fruits red, ovoid, about 3⁄8 in. long.
Native of Japan; plants originally grown under this name were V. setigerum, and the true species was little known until the 1930s. From that species it differs in the smaller and more shortly stalked leaves, shorter stamens and drooping inflorescences. The leaves colour crimson in the autumn.