Viburnum nervosum

显脉荚蒾 species

AdoxaceaeViburnum

Viburnum nervosum is a shrub or small tree in the moschatel or Adoxaceae family, native to parts of China, and also Bhutan, India, northern Myanmar, Nepal and north Vietnam, growing to 5 m in height.

  • Bark gray-brownish; winter buds are naked.
  • Leaves are greenish brown when young, ovate to broadly ovate, rarely oblong-ovate, 7–18 cm long and 2.5–4 cm across, papery, the upper surface pubescent particularly along veins, often clustered at ends of branchlets; petiole is green, robust, 2–5.5 cm.
  • Flowers appear with the leaves, the inflorescence being a compound umbel-like cyme, terminal, 5–15 cm in diameter; flower corollas are white or reddish, 5–8 mm in diameter, glabrous, appearing in April-June.
  • Fruit is ovoid, 7–9 mm long and 5–7 mm across, base rounded, apex rounded, glabrous, initially yellow, then red and maturing purplish black, developing in September-October.

Contributors

  • Philippe de Spoelberch