Wright viburnum

Family Caprifoliaceae. Distributed in the same regions as the forked viburnum (Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, Japan, Korea).

Grows as an upright, densely branched shrub 2–2.5 m tall. Bark smooth, grayish-brown; young shoots glabrous or with sparse hairs, slender. Leaves 14–18 cm, obovate with a rounded base and an apex drawn out into an acuminate point; margin crenate-serrate; green above with sparse hairs, paler beneath and pubescent along the veins. As in the Bureinskaya viburnum, the flowers in the inflorescence are all fertile, white, up to 0.7 cm in diameter. Fruits are drupes, bright red, juicy, nearly spherical, up to 1 cm in diameter, ripening in September–October.

Wright viburnum is suitable for solitary, group and forest-edge plantings. It is used mainly in the Far East and in Japan. Introduced into cultivation since 1892.