Scientific Name: Viburnum x burkwoodii
Common Name: Burkwood viburnum
Family Name: Viburnaceae
Origin: Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C)
Plant Type: Shrub - deciduous
Mature Size: 2 - 3m x 2 - 3m (height x width)
Habit: Dense, Open
Form: Round
Texture:
Landscape Uses: Mixed shrub border, Spring interest
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media:
Leaves: Simple, Opposite, Leathery, Glabrous, Lustrous, Ovate, Ciliate
Flowers: Cyme, White, Apr-May
Fruit: Drupe, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Red, Black, Aug-Sep-Oct
Key ID Features:
Leaves opposite, ovoid, up to 8cm long x 4cm wide, margins serrate; inflorescence a terminal corymb-like cyme, most 5-7cm wide, florets yellow in bud, opening creamy white, about 8mm wide; bark has prominent lenticels. Winter ID: flower buds occur in large terminal clusters, about 1cm wide; buds soft, elliptical, yellowy and upright.