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Botanical illustration. The flowers are creamy white, 9 mm diameter; the calyx is urn-shaped, five-toothed, persistent; the corolla is five-lobed, with rounded lobes, imbricate in bud; the five stamens alternate with the corolla lobes, the filaments slender, the anthers pale yellow, oblong, two-celled, the cells opening longitudinally; the ovary is inferior, one-celled, with a thick, pale ...
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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 .
Flower-bearing buds are 2 cm (3 ⁄ 4 in) long, obovate, long pointed; other terminal buds are acute, 8.5 to 12.7 mm (1 ⁄ 3 to 1 ⁄ 2 in) long, while lateral buds are much smaller. The bud scales enlarge with the growing shoot and often become leaf-like.
The flowers are white, produced in corymbs up to 13 cm (5 in) in diameter at the top of the stems; each corymb comprises a ring of outer sterile flowers 2–2.5 cm (3 ⁄ 4 –1 in) diameter with conspicuous petals, surrounding a center of small (5 mm, 0.20 in), fertile flowers; the flowers are pollinated by insects.
Viburnum × bodnantense, the Bodnant viburnum, is a Group of hybrid flowering plant cultivars of garden origin. They originate in a cross between V. farreri and V. grandiflorum [ 1 ] made by Charles Puddle, head gardener to Lord Aberconway at Bodnant Garden , Wales around 1935.
The flowers have both female and male parts which makes it a perfect flower. [8] Perfect meaning they are plants that have both stamens and styles. The fruit is a red glabrous fleshy round drupe that grows in clusters like its flowers, they have red color from September to early December—an individual berry measures 0.84 centimetres (0.33 in ...
It is a deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 4–5 m (13–16 ft) tall. The leaves are opposite, simple oval to lanceolate, 6–13 cm (2.4–5.1 in) Long and 4–9 cm (1.6–3.5 in) broad, with a finely serrated margin; they are densely downy on the underside, less so on the upper surface.