what is this? (#2) - (SOLVED: viburnum acerifolia aka maple-leaf viburnum)

Lanier_Lurker · June 09, 2007, 08:04:41 AM

These bushes (or small trees perhaps) are growing down by the lake.

Anyone know what they are?

WDH · June 09, 2007, 10:27:53 AM

I believe that we have been discussing this genus in a another thread.

https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=26070.0

SwampDonkey · June 09, 2007, 10:32:08 AM

Yup, looks like it.

Dodgy Loner · June 09, 2007, 02:28:18 PM

Yep, that's most definitely a Viburnum acerifolia, aka maple-leaf viburnum.

SwampDonkey · June 09, 2007, 05:08:49 PM

Here is V. trilobum for comparison.

Notice the reddish hue in the leaves around the flowers. The sterile flowers are the large perimeter ones, but the plant is not in full bloom yet, still greenish with closed fertile ones. These cuttings are from the same plant.

hmmm, the quick link (click) to paste the code into the post must have been modified. Had to type it in long hand this time after right clicking to 'View Image' to get the URL in Firefox.

What ya up to Boss? ;) Maybe it's the new release of Firefox V 2.0.0.4

SwampDonkey · June 09, 2007, 07:27:46 PM

Might be able to get some V. edule tomorrow from the woodlot.

SwampDonkey · June 09, 2007, 10:16:31 PM

There is another popular Viburnum sp that folks plant around here and the flowers are arranged into a ball. So it is named Japanese snowball. Viburnum plicatum

http://www.greenwoodnursery.com/page.cfm/12125

Neat ah? ;)

The cranberry I have here was suppose to be a snowball but the people selling it didn't know one Viburnum from another or were selling wild stock for something else or who knows. My mother picked it up at a nursery and before it ever flowered I told her it was a cranberry bush. Which didn't matter in the end. ;D

WDH · June 10, 2007, 12:01:08 AM

I have seen the snowball planted as an ornamental in people's yard.

Lanier_Lurker · June 10, 2007, 08:23:34 AM

1) How big does it get?

2) Is it easy to transplant?

There is no need for me to ask if it is shade tolerant.

Lanier_Lurker · June 10, 2007, 08:28:29 AM

SD, I've noticed that the auto-paste linkage between the "post a reply" tab and the "forum galleries" tab seems to only work if the "galleries" tab is launched directly from the "reply" tab. If these tabs are launched independently the auto-paste of the image link does not work (for me at least).

Perhaps this is your issue?

SwampDonkey · June 10, 2007, 09:23:19 AM

LL, yes that seems the way it is with the photo posting. Jeff explained it all last night in another thread.

cheers.

SwampDonkey · June 10, 2007, 09:31:26 AM

I looked for some V. edule on the woodlot this morning, but they were all V. trilobum. V. edule have a smaller less symmetrical cluster of flowers. It's called squash berry, I think, because of the large, flat oblong-shaped seeds. I did see some old berries from last year on some of my V. trilobum.