Botanical Name: Viburnum carlesii
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Common Name: Koreanspice Viburnum  
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  • Anatomy

  • Culture

  • Design

Plant Type

Shrub

 

Height Range

3-6'

 

Flower Color

White

 

Flower Season

Spring

 

Leaf Color

Green

 

Bark Color

Brown, Grey

 

Fruit Color

Black, Blue

 

Fruit Season

Summer, Fall

Information by: Stephanie Duer
Photographer: Steve Mullany, JJ Neilson
  • Description

  • Notes

This Koreanspice viburnum cultivar is a slow-growing, upright, rounded, deciduous shrub which typically matures to 4 or 5 feet tall and wide, but eventually may reach a height of 8 feet under optimum growing conditions. Red buds open in late March/early April to pink-changing-to-white flowers which are arranged in snowball-like clusters and are very fragrant. Flowers give way to non-showy, berry-like drupes which mature to blue-black in late summer. Broad ovate, serrate, dark green leaves are infrequently flushed with copper. Foliage usually turns dull red in fall, but may sometimes display attractive shades of wine-red to burgundy. 'Compacta' grows even slower, typically 2 to 4 feet tall and wide.