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Viburnum opulus var. opulus |
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| Common name |
snowball viburnum |
| Family |
adoxaceae |
| Life cycle |
shrub |
| Flowers |
white (May) |
| Size |
6' |
| Light |
sun-part shade |
I think I have the botanical name right, but set me straight if I don't. This is one of two deciduous viburnums growing right next to each other in our back orchard area. Its main attraction is the profusion of full white flowerheads in spring, composed entirely of the showy sterile flowers for which the snowball bush is named (unlike its neighbor Viburnum trilobum, which sports the more typical arrangement of inconspicuous fertile flowers on a center disk, with the showier sterile ones in a ring around them). It's squished between its larger cousin and our compost pile, but seems happy enough nonetheless. Bush crickets like to hide in its leaves and sing their hearts out in late summer.
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following area: orchard About my plant portraits
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Visitors to this page have left the following comments| taai | Jun 05, 2008 | i have an absolutely beautiful specimen of this very lovely shrub... i am thinking of tearing a fence down just so it can have more room!!! lol! mine is about fifteen feet tall!!!
we live in zone 7B, canada. |
| Adele Cousins | May 21, 2009 | Received this shrub for Mother's Day. I guess I missed the bloom for this year. It now is planted & I have one concern. We do have deer who graze thru our yard. I do spray to protect those that I know they like, but wondered if this shrub is one that they will "eat". My e-mail address: its adele@verizon.net
Deer don't browse my garden (knock on wood!), so I'll leave this question for others to answer... |
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