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Viburnum furcatum
Forked viburnum is a deciduous shrub up to about 4 m tall and wide, grown for its bronze-green foliage that turns red in autumn, scented white flower heads in summer and black fruit. It is a hardy, low-fuss garden shrub that does best in fertile, moist but well-drained soil.
Viburnum furcatum, the forked viburnum or scarlet leaved viburnum, is a species of flowering plant in the family Adoxaceae (formerly Caprifoliaceae). Growing to 4 m (13 ft) tall and broad, it is a substantial deciduous shrub with rounded oval bronze-green leaves, turning red in autumn. Scented white flower-heads resembling those of lacecap hydrangeas are borne in summer, followed by black fruits.
This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Viburnum furcatum 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.
