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Viburnum rafinesqueanum
Also called Downy Arrow Wood, Downy Leaf Arrow Wood, Downy Leaved Arrowwood
Downy arrowwood is a deciduous shrub, typically about 2 m tall, native to eastern North America from Canada to Georgia and Oklahoma. It is grown for its spring flowers, blue fruit and orange-red fall color, and tolerates a range of conditions once established.
Viburnum rafinesqueanum, the downy arrowwood, is a deciduous medium-sized (typically about 2 meters tall) shrub native to the Eastern United States and Canada from Quebec and Manitoba south to Georgia and west to Oklahoma. Downy arrow-wood produces ornamental but slightly malodorous flowers in Spring.
Viburnum rafinesqueanum has opposite, simple leaves and dark blue fruit in berry-like drupes. Foliage turns orange-red in late fall. Southern arrow-wood (V. dentatum) is similar, except that it blooms later and has broader, more coarsely toothed leaves and longer petioles.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Viburnum rafinesqueanum 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.
