| Scientific Name: | Viburnum opulus var. opulus |
| Common Name: | European cranberry bush, European snowball |
| Family Name: | Viburnaceae |
| Origin: | Africa - northern, Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Shrub - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 3 - 5m x 3 - 4m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Round, Vase |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract birds, Cut flower or foliage, Mixed shrub border |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Opposite, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Orbicular, Dentate, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Pink, Apr-May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Drupe, Edible, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Red, Aug, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Shrub up to 4m tall; leaves opposite, blades three-lobed; rounded, 5-10cm long x 4-9cm wide, lower surface usually pubescent; petiole with narrow groove and 2-7 disc-like glands; cymes of most cultivars forming a rounded ball or "pom pom", 4-8cm wide, flowers creamy-white, ~1.5cm wide; drupe cranberry-like, round, ~6mm wide, bright red (absent in some cvs.). Winter ID: smooth grey bark, twigs glabrous, lateral buds smooth, most ~7mm long; leaf scars V to crescent shaped, each with 3 vein scars. | |