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The flowers are produced in flat corymbs 5–10 cm (2–4 in) in diameter, comprising a central cluster of fertile yellowish-white flowers 5 mm (0.20 in) in diameter, surrounded by a ring of showy, sterile flowers 2–3 cm in diameter, which act as a target guide to pollinating insects. The fruit is an ovoid blue-black drupe 8–10 mm long. [4] [5]
Viburnum sieboldii has coarse, open structure, flat-topped flowers, reddish-black fruit, and can grow as a small tree. Viburnum tinus is a widely grown garden and landscape shrub. The cultivars 'Pragense' [ 10 ] and 'Eskimo', [ 11 ] of mixed or uncertain parentage, have won the Royal Horticultural Society 's Award of Garden Merit .
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Charles Maries. Charles Maries (18 December 1851 – 11 October 1902) was an English botanist and plant collector who was sent by James Veitch & Sons of Chelsea, London to search for new hardy plants in Japan, China and Taiwan between 1877 and 1879; there he discovered over 500 new species, [1] [2] which Veitch introduced to England.
A sparse shrub or gnarled tree reaching 2–3 m (7–10 ft), it has showy pink flowers larger than the typical viburnum, and red to black fruit, which are edible. [4] It is hardy to USDA zone 6a. [2] The unimproved species is available from commercial suppliers, as is a putative form, Viburnum grandiflorum f.
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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.
Viburnum opulus is a deciduous shrub growing to 4–5 m (13–16 ft) tall. The leaves are opposite, three-lobed, 5–10 cm (2–4 in) long and broad, with a rounded base and coarsely serrated margins; they are superficially similar to the leaves of some maples, most easily distinguished by their somewhat wrinkled surface with impressed leaf venation.