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GROWING WITH EDUCATION (Continued) sun to dappled shade and grow best
in rich moist loam but are adaptable
to living in drier and shady sites. The
star shaped tiny 1/4in white flowers
are set on 3–4-inch flat topped cyme
that matures into ½ fruit that is a
mixture of light green, pale yellow,
red pink before slowly changing
to blue-black in the fall. The glossy
2-4-inch-long dark green leaves start
out as soft yellow green changing in
the autumn to orange to purplish
red. The leaves have a rounded base
and are finely toothed; the petiole is
mostly winged with a wavy margin.
Viburnum plicatum ‘Shasta’ flower
Deer like to browse on the foliage and
twigs; the caterpillars of the Spring
zones 3-6. The foliage is enjoyed by Azure butterfly also enjoy the foliage
The name Viburnum the caterpillars of the Spring Azure, while birds and other wildlife enjoy
the flowers are enjoyed by bees and
comes from the Latin butterflies, while the purple fruit is the ripe fruit. The fruit is also edible
for humans and can be eaten off the
for “Wayfaring tree”, enjoyed by songbirds, gamebirds, bush or used to make jams and jellies,
small mammals and people.
because plants often Another native is Viburnum lentago, unless the birds feast on them first.
grew along or close or nannyberry or Black Haw, that Viburnum nudum has a number
of common names including
to pathways, helping thrives from Hudson Bay to Geogia Possumhaw, Smooth Witherod, and
UD+SDA zones 3-7, and grows into a
travelers from getting small tree,15-20 feet tall and wide. The Wild Raisin and are native in the
eastern and southeastern US, from
lost. plants have slender, multi stemmed Connecticut to Florida and west to
arching branches with a fibrous root
system that tend to spread by suckers Louisiana. They thrive in medium to
to form thickets. They thrive in full boggy acidic soils, full sun to shade
Viburnum
