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Viburnum tinus
Also called Laurestine, Laurustinus Viburnum
Laurustinus (Viburnum tinus) is an evergreen shrub from the Mediterranean, grown for its winter flowers and metallic blue berries. It is tolerant and easy to grow in most temperate gardens, and does best with some shade and moist soil.
Viburnum tinus, the laurustinus or laurustine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Viburnaceae, native to the Mediterranean area of Europe and North Africa.
Viburnum tinus is widely cultivated for its winter flowers and metallic blue berries. It is hardy down to −10 °C (14 °F). The cultivars 'Eve Price', 'French White' and 'Gwenllian' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Native to the Mediterranean region, Viburnum tinus prefers shady, moist areas. It is most commonly found in the western Mediterranean due to a shorter drought season and is one of the dominant species of Mediterranean sclerophyllous shrubland. It was introduced to Britain by 1596, and is now widely naturalised in southern England, and more locally in northern England, Wales, and Scotland; it is also locally naturalised in southeastern Ireland. It has also been introduced to Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, the United States (California, Oregon) and Tajikistan.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Viburnum tinus 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.
