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Viburnum ellipticum
Also called Oval Leaved Viburnum
Viburnum ellipticum is a native deciduous shrub of western North America, grown as a garden or wildlife shrub. It is undemanding once established and tolerant of a range of conditions.
Viburnum ellipticum, the common viburnum or oval-leaved viburnum, is a species of shrub in family Viburnaceae.
The shrub has deciduous leaves with oval or rounded blades 2 to 6 centimetres (3⁄4 to 2+1⁄4 in) long. The leaf blade usually has three main longitudinal veins and a shallowly toothed edge. The inflorescence is a flat-topped cyme of many unpleasant-smelling white flowers, each 6 to 8 millimetres (1⁄4 to 5⁄16 in) wide with five petals and five whiskery, white stamens. The fruit is a drupe about 1 cm long, red, blackening with age.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Viburnum ellipticum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
