Viburnum leaves (I think) by rhoing

Viburnum leaves (I think)

Breaking out my book, A Botanist’s Vocabulary, I think this is an example of opposite, ovate, and serrated (“toothed”) leaves. I think this is “Viburnum plicatum” (“Japanese snowball”), but I'm checking.

From Missouri Botanical Garden, http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=c363 » “Viburnum plicatum is a dense, upright, multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub that typically matures to 8-15' tall with a slightly larger spread. Ovate, toothed, strongly-veined, dark green leaves (to 4" long) have pleated upper surfaces. Leaves turn burgundy red to purplish red in fall. Two different forms of this shrub are commonly sold in commerce: (1) Japanese snowball bush (f. plicatum) which is the type form featuring sterile, snowball-like, orbicular inflorescences (2-3" diameter cymes) of non-fragrant, showy white flowers along the branches in spring with no subsequent fruit and (b) doublefile viburnum (f. tomentosum) which is the wild-related taxon featuring fertile, flat-topped flower clusters (2-4" diameter cymes) which bloom along tiered horizontal branches in doublefile form, each cluster containing an outer ring of large showy sterile florets surrounding a center mass of tiny non-showy fertile florets which when fertilized give way to egg-shaped fruits and viable seed. …

“The sterile snowball form (f. plicatum) is known from cultivation only (first observed as a garden plant in Japan). It was discovered prior in time to the discovery of the wild fertile doublefile form (f. tomentosum) from which it was actually developed. As a result of this inverted schedule of discovery, the sterile form was mistakenly given a species name (Viburnum plicatum) and the subsequently discovered fertile form (f. tomentosum) was named as if it were a variety of the species. The wild form (f. tomentosum) is native to forests and thickets in China and Japan.

“Genus name comes from the Latin name of a species plant.

“Specific epithet means pleated or folded in reference to deep leaf veins.”

Genus page at PhytoImages, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Viburnum&rank=genus

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I like the rich green color
June 9th, 2018  
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