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'Viburnum × globosum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/viburnum/viburnum-x-globosum/). Accessed 2025-05-21.

Family

  • Viburnaceae

Genus

  • Viburnum
  • Viburnum atrocyaneum × V. davidii

Glossary

clone
Organism arising via vegetative or asexual reproduction.

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'Viburnum × globosum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/viburnum/viburnum-x-globosum/). Accessed 2025-05-21.

The cross of Viburnum atrocyaneum with V. davidii, arising originally from adjacent parents growing at Hillier’s West Hill Nursery in Winchester, UK, in 1964 (Edwards & Marshall 2019). Described by Allen Coombes in The Plantsman, Vol. 2(1), pp. 63–4V. The habit is intermediate between its parents, but only the type-clone – the densely rounded ‘Jermyn’s Globe’ – has achieved any sort of circulation.

'Jermyn's Globe'

Selected as the best from the original batch of seedlings raised by Hillier Nurseries in 1964, forming a rounded, compact dome (Edwards & Marshall 2019). Although the original plant is not as globular in habit now as when it was first named, it is of low, compact and roundish habit. The foliage is not unlike that of V. tinus. A plant in the Hillier Arboretum is 5 ft high (1986).

Viburnum × globosum 'Jermyn's Globe'

The small flowers on Viburnum × globosum 'Jermyns Globe' (Arboretum Het Leen Eeklo, Belgium – 5 May 2005). Image © Jan De Langhe.

Viburnum × globosum 'Jermyn's Globe'

Viburnum × globosum 'Jermyns Globe' in bloom at Arboretum Het Leen Eeklo, Belgium (5 May 2005). Image © Jan De Langhe.

Viburnum × globosum 'Jermyn's Globe'

Viburnum × globosum 'Jermyns Globe' is not so globular in old age as it is in youth. This is the original plant at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, UK (19773670*Q). A famous plantsman provides scale. 23 February 2024. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

Viburnum × globosum 'Jermyn's Globe'

Viburnum × globosum 'Jermyns Globe' is a hybrid between V. davidii and probably V. calvum. Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, UK (19773670*Q). 30 January 2023. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

Viburnum × globosum 'Jermyn's Globe'

Foliage on Viburnum × globosum 'Jermyns Globe' (Arboretum Het Leen Eeklo, Belgium – 5 May 2005). Image © Jan De Langhe.

Viburnum × globosum 'Jermyn's Globe'

The leaves of Viburnum × globosum 'Jermyns Globe' are three-veined in part of the foliage (Arboretum Het Leen Eeklo, Belgium – 5 May 2005). Image © Jan De Langhe.

Viburnum × globosum 'Jermyn's Globe'

Blue fruits on Viburnum × globosum 'Jermyns Globe' (Arboretum Het Leen Eeklo, Belgium – 5 May 2005). Image © Jan De Langhe.

Viburnum × globosum 'Jermyn's Globe'

Viburnum × globosum 'Jermyns Globe' in flower at Herkenrode, Belgium, April 2024. Image John Grimshaw.

Viburnum × globosum 'Jermyn's Globe'

Viburnum × globosum 'Jermyns Globe' in flower at Herkenrode, Belgium, April 2024. Image John Grimshaw.

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