Scientific Name: Viburnum davidii
Common Name: David viburnum
Family Name: Viburnaceae
Origin: S.E. Asia / Japan / China
Hardiness Zone: Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C)
Plant Type: Broadleaf evergreen
Mature Size: 1.3 - 2.0m x 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading
Form: Mounded
Texture: Medium - coarse
Landscape Uses: Attract birds, Group or mass planting, Hedge row, Mixed shrub border, Small garden/space, Spring interest, Winter interest, Woodland margin
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Opposite, Leathery, Heavily veined, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Obovate, Ovate, Dentate, Entire
Flowers: Cyme, White, Apr-May
Fruit: Drupe, Blue, Jul-Aug, (Persistent)
Key ID Features:
Leaves mostly obovate, 12-17cm long x 4-7cm wide with 3 main veins, slightly toothed, especially mid-blade towards the apex, petioles 1-3cm long; corymb-like cymes 5-8cm wide, flowers 3-5mm wide, 5 white petals (pink in bud), late spring, tubular, flattened, terminal umbel-like cymes; fruit on female plants ovoid, metallic blue (form if a male plant is near by).