| Scientific Name: | Viburnum plicatum cvs. |
| Common Name: | Japanese snowball bush, doublefile viburnum |
| Family Name: | Viburnaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin, S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Shrub - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 3 - 5m x 3 - 4m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Horizontal, Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal, Round, Vase |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Screening, Specimen plant, Spring interest, Summer interest, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Rugose, Elliptic, Obovate, Ovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Green-yellow, May-Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Drupe, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Red, Black, Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Spreading bushy deciduous shrub; leaves opposite, blades mostly ovate, 9-13cm long x 4-7cm wide, deeply veined, dark green; lower surface pubescent; flowers in saucer shaped or snow-ball shaped terminal corymb-like cymes, fertile flowers about 5mm wide, yellowish-white. Winter ID: horizontal branching in tiers (especially for V. 'Mariesii'); vegetative buds opposite, two scales, hairy; flowers buds large, valvate, hairy, and appressed to stem; leaf scar with three prominent bundle scars. | |