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5. Choose Salt-Tolerant Plants. Plants like viburnum, boxwood, red twig dogwood, and serviceberry react badly to salty soil. However, some plants are naturally more tolerant to road salt, and ...
The Cherokee have several uses for the plant. They take an infusion of it to prevent recurrent spasms, use the root bark as a diaphoretic and a tonic, and take a compound infusion of it for fever, smallpox and ague. They also use an infusion of the bark as a wash for a sore tongue. [9]
Viburnum lantanoides (commonly known as hobble-bush, [1] witch-hobble, alder-leaved viburnum, American wayfaring tree, [2] and moosewood [3]) is a perennial shrub of the family Adoxaceae (formerly in the Caprifoliaceae), growing 2–4 meters (6–12 ft) high with pendulous branches that take root where they touch the ground.
The fruit is a small round blue-black drupe, 8–16 mm (0.31–0.63 in) long on a reddish stem; it is thick-skinned, sweet, and rather juicy. The stone is oblong oval, flattened. The roots are fibrous. The wood is ill-smelling, dark orange brown, heavy, hard, close-grained, with a specific gravity of 0.7303.
Viburnum is a genus of about 150–175 species of flowering plants in the moschatel family, Adoxaceae. Its current classification is based on molecular phylogeny . [ 2 ] It was previously included in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae .
Viburnum dilatatum, commonly known as linden arrowwood [1] or linden viburnum, [2] is a deciduous shrub in the moschatel family . It is native to eastern Asia, and can be found as an introduced plant in the mid-Atlantic regions in the U.S from New York to Virginia.
The stems arch and are very dense, and the twigs are a reddish-brown color. The leaves are opposite, three-lobed, 6–12 cm ( 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 – 4 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) long and 5–10 cm (2–4 in) broad, with a rounded base and serrated margins; they are superficially similar to many maple leaves, most easily distinguished by their somewhat wrinkled ...
Viburnum × burkwoodii, the Burkwood viburnum, is a hybrid flowering plant in the family Adoxaceae (formerly Caprifoliaceae). It is a cross of garden origin between V. carlesii and V. utile , grown for its early, strongly scented flowers.