Viburnum plicatum

• BOTANICAL NAME: Viburnum plicatum
• PRONUNCIATION: vi-ber'num pli-ka'tum to-men-to'sum
• COMMON NAME: Doublefile Viburnum
• FAMILY: Caprifoliaceae
• NATIVITY: China, Japan
• GROWTH HABIT: Horizontal, tiered branching
• SIZE: 8 to 10' (height) by 9 to 12' (spread)
• HARDINESS: Zone 5 - 8
• CULTURE: moist, well-drained soils, prefers sun
• LANDSCAPE USE: elegant flowering shrub
• FOLIAGE: Opposite, simple, broad-ovate to oblong-ovate 2 to 5" long dentate-serrate
• BUDS: Vegetative-naked, foliose, pubescent, flower buds-valvate, angular, tan-brown, hairy, apressed to stem or divergent
• BARK: dark gray or brownish with orange lenticels
• FLOWER: White, no fragrance, 4 to 5 lobes, outer flowers are sterile, inner flowers are fertile, flower in May
• FRUIT:   Drupe, egg-shaped, 1/3" long, bright red changing to black
• PROPAGATION: cuttings
• PESTS: None serious
• CULTIVARS:
  • var. tomentosum - flower, doublefile, fall color, fruit
  • var. tomentosum `Summer Stars' - flower
  • var. tomentosum `Shasta'
  • var. tomentosum `Shoshoni'

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