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Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 6a -23.3 °C (-10 °F) to -20.6 °C (-5 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 8 to 15 feet
Plant Spread: 8 to 15 feet
Leaves: Evergreen
Broadleaf
Fruiting Time: Fall
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Blooms on old wood
Flower Color: White
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Uses: Provides winter interest
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Other Beneficial Insects: beetles
Resistances: Powdery Mildew
Deer Resistant
Rabbit Resistant
Toxicity: Other: skin irritant
Propagation: Seeds: Stratify seeds: 3 months of cold stratification
Other info: plant is self-sterile, at least two distinct genotypes are needed to obtain good fruit production
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Layering
Pollinators: Beetles
Bees
Various insects
Containers: Not suitable for containers
Miscellaneous: Monoecious

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Common names
  • Leatherleaf Viburnum

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Location: Loki Schmidt Garten - Botanischer Garten der Universitaet Hamburg
Date: 2022-09-13
Location: Loki Schmidt Garten - Botanischer Garten der Universitaet Hamburg
Location: Loki Schmidt Garten - Botanischer Garten der Universitaet Hamburg
Date: 2022-09-13
Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Brussels)
Date: 2018-10-10
Location: Northern New Jersey
Date: 2022-08-17
Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Brussels)
Date: 2018-10-10
Location: Botanical Garden Meise (near Brussels - Belgium)
Date: 2023-05-15
Location: Invercargill, New Zealand
Date: 2020-11-17
Location: Northern New Jersey
Date: 2022-08-17
Taken at Bamboo Brook
Location: Pinehurst Arboretum Pinehurst, North Carolina
Date: May 6, 2024
Leatherleaf Viburnum #269 nn; LHB p. 937, 188-2-8, "Latin name.";
Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Brussels)
Location: Willow Valley Communities Lakes Campus, Willow Street, Pennsylvania USA
Date: 2019-10-24
Location: Pinehurst Arboretum Pinehurst, North Carolina
Date: May 6, 2024
Leatherleaf Viburnum #269 nn; LHB p. 937, 188-2-8, "Ancient Latin
Location: Pinehurst Arboretum Pinehurst, North Carolina
Date: May 6, 2024
Leatherleaf Viburnum #269 nn; LHB p. 937, 188-2-8, "Ancient Latin
Location: Botanical Garden of the Technical University of Delft
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2006-05-01
Location: Florissant, MO
Leatherleaf Viburnum (8 inch long leaves)
Location: Downingtown Pennsylvania
Date: 2021-05-04
shrubs in bloom
Location: Downingtown Pennsylvania
Date: 2021-05-04
foliage and bloom
Location: Botanical Garden of the Technical University of Delft
Location: Botanical Garden of the Technical University of Delft
Location: Botanical Garden Meise
Date: 2016-02-06

photo credit: Marija Gajić

photo credit: Marija Gajić
Uploaded by Lucichar
Location: Downingtown Pennsylvania
Date: 2021-05-04
shrubs in bloom
Location: My garden in N E Pa.
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Comments:
  • Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on May 7, 2021 10:42 AM concerning plant:
    This large evergreen shrub from central & western China is occasionally planted in landscapes of the upper South, lower Midwest, and Mid-Atlantic. It is offered by larger conventional nurseries and is used mostly by landscape architects and designers. It is one of the scurfy viburnum species with very rough, scurfy twigs, like Koreanspice Viburnum, and not smooth like other kinds of viburnums as Arrowwoods. It is the most scurfy of all the viburnums that I have ever seen with a heavy orange-brown coating, and some people can have an allergic reaction upon handling it. (I took photos of the still relatively young shrubs planted behind my yard by my neighbors a few years ago; whose yard is almost entirely of east Asian plants species while mine are almost entirely eastern North American native species; clash, clash.) It is possible to grow this species in USDA Zone 5, but in that northern zone is is semi-evergreen and can suffer from cold damage.
  • Posted by Mindy03 (Delta KY) on Apr 2, 2012 11:39 AM concerning plant:
    Valuable source of nectar and pollen for honey bees.
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