#218 (Sh.18) BUDDLEJALEAF VIBURNUM
Viburnum buddleifolium
Planted: 1933
This shrub is at the northern end of the Viburnum Walk.
| Distribution: | Native to central China. Named in 1903 by Charles Henry Wright (1864-1941), An English botanist who worked in the laboratories of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. |
| Planting Date: | Purchased in 1933 from J Cheal and Sons, Lowfield Nurseries, Crawley. |
| Growth Habit: | The shrub is semi-deciduous and grows to heights of 3 m to 5 m. |
| Leaf: | The middle-green, simple leaves are opposite (lanceolate, serrulate and petiolate). |
| Flowers: | Cymose corymbs of white five-stellate flowers in May and June. |
| Fruit: | Produces red drupes in summer. |
| Toxicity: | The plants are toxic. |
| Uses: | An evergreen ornamental flowering shrub |
| Plant Hunter: | Ernest Henry “Chinese” Wilson (1876 – 1930) a British plant collector and explorer who introduced a large range of about 2,000 Asian plant species to the West |
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