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Viburnum x carlcephalum |
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| Common name |
fragrant snowball |
| Family |
adoxaceae |
| Life cycle |
shrub (Z6-8) |
| Flowers |
white (spring) |
| Size |
to 7' |
| Light |
sun-part shade |
Cross between V. carlesii and V. macrocephalum. Multi-stemmed deciduous shrub, growing as wide as it is tall. Fragrant dense clusters of flowers are followed by red berries, which ripen to black. Large leaves turn brilliant red in fall.
In its second year in our garden, our specimen produced one large flowerhead on a smallish plant, looking just a bit silly. But it has grown a good bit in the years that followed, taking its rightful place in the line-up of viburnums that borders our front yard. Even with more flowers, its fruiting is still meager, though.
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| | Shiny dark-red berries in September |
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We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston. About my plant portraits
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Visitors to this page have left the following comments| Patt | May 01, 2011 | I have this viburnum also in my front yard, in it's second year and mine to had just 1 large bloom. Hopefully we will see lots more blooms in the coming years! |
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