Sweet viburnum
Viburnum odoratissimum var. awabuki · Viburnaceae · 아왜나무
Look
- Leaves
- Leathery leaves, long elliptic to obovate-elliptic (8 to 16 x 3.5 to 6 cm), glossy and hairless above, with wavy blunt teeth on the upper part.
- Flowers
- In June to July, white flowers cluster in panicles (11 to 17 x 6 to 11 cm) at the twig tips; the corolla is cylindrical bell-shaped, 4 to 8.5 mm across, with 5 reflexed lobes.
- Fruit
- Ovate to elliptic drupes (0.5 to 1 x 0.4 to 0.9 cm) ripen from red to black in August to September; the seed has a lengthwise groove in the center.
- Bark
- Old bark is grayish white to gray-brown and smooth with wart-like lenticels; new twigs are reddish and hairless.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Native
- Native to
- Japan, Taiwan and Korea (Jeju); grows in low mountains.