Viburnum macrocephalum

• BOTANICAL NAME: Viburnum macrocephalum
• PRONUNCIATION: vi-ber'num mak-ro-sef'a-lum
• COMMON NAME: Chinese Snowball Viburnum
• FAMILY: Caprifoliaceae
• NATIVITY: China
• GROWTH HABIT: dense, rounded shrub
• SIZE: 6 to 10' (height) by 6 to 10' (spread); rounded
• HARDINESS: Zone 6 - 9
• CULTURE: well-drained soil, sun for flowers
• LANDSCAPE USE: rounded shrub
• FOLIAGE: opposite, simple, decidous or semi-evergreen, ovate or elliptic to ovate-oblong, 2 to 4" long
• BARK: brown
• FLOWER: white, non-fragrant, 1 1/4" flowering in May to early June
• FRUIT: does not fruit, sterile flowers
• PROPAGATION: cuttings
• PESTS: none serious