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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Viburnum cotinifolium' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/viburnum/viburnum-cotinifolium/). Accessed 2024-04-20.

Synonyms

  • V. polycarpum Wall. ex DC.

Glossary

apex
(pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
corolla
The inner whorl of the perianth. Composed of free or united petals often showy.
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
ovoid
Egg-shaped solid.
stellate
Star-shaped.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Viburnum cotinifolium' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/viburnum/viburnum-cotinifolium/). Accessed 2024-04-20.

Viburnum cotinifolium

Viburnum cotinifolium (Yorkshire Arboretum, UK, May 2022). Image John Grimshaw.

A deciduous shrub 6 to 12 ft high, whose young branchlets, under-surface of leaves (upper surface to a less extent) and the flower-stalks are clothed with a dense, grey, stellate down. Leaves ovate, oval or nearly round; the base rounded, the apex shortly pointed or rounded, 2 to 5 in. long, two-thirds to nearly as wide, finely toothed. Flowers white, tinged with pink, widely funnel-shaped, 1⁄4 in. long, produced during May in rounded usually five-branched cymes 2 to 3 in. across. Fruits ovoid, red, ultimately black, 1⁄3 to 1⁄2 in. long.

Native of the Himalaya from Bhutan to Baluchistan; introduced about 1830. This species is closely allied to V. lantana, and is very similar in foliage and general appearance, but differs in the following respects: cymes more often five-rayed than seven-rayed, corolla tinged with pink, and distinctly funnel-shaped, the corolla-tube longer than the lobes. The true plant is rare in gardens, and not so hardy as V. lantana.

Viburnum cotinifolium

Foliage on Viburnum cotinifolium, taken from a plant at the Viburnum collection of Lloyd Kenyon at Gredington, UK (27 August 2012). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Viburnum cotinifolium

Infructescence of Viburnum cotinifolium at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, UK (2 August 2012). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Viburnum cotinifolium

Viburnum cotinifolium ENE 390, a Nepalese introduction at the RBG Edinburgh, UK (16 August 2012). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Viburnum cotinifolium

Viburnum cotinifolium ENE 390 leaves with broadly ovate lamina, basally cordate (RBG Edinburgh, UK – 16 August 2012). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Viburnum cotinifolium

Bud on Viburnum cotinifolium ENE 390 (RBG Edinburgh, UK – 16 August 2012). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Viburnum cotinifolium

Densely stellate pubescent lamina lower surface on Viburnum cotinifolium ENE 390 (RBG Edinburgh, UK – 16 August 2012). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Viburnum cotinifolium

Initial lamina upper surface pubescence on Viburnum cotinifolium ENE 390 (RBG Edinburgh, UK – 16 August 2012). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

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