Sweet Viburnum

Viburnum odoratissimum Sweet Viburnum

DESCRIPTION

Upright shrub or small tree to 10m tall with greyish-brown bark covered in small lenticels. Leathery, deep green elliptic to oblong to obovate (occasionally semiorbicular) leaves 7–20cm long by 4–9cm wide, subentire or irregularly serrate, apex shortly acute and mucronate. There are two subspecies with different leaf sizes and textures.

FLOWERS AND FRUIT

Terminal pyramidal inflorescences or at apices of short lateral branchlets; fragrant white flowers (aging to yellow-white; sometimes reddish); tubular-campanulate calyx 1.5–4mm long. Ovoid or ovoid- ellipsoid fruit 8mm long by 5–6mm wide, initially red, maturing to black.

HABITAT AND RANGE

Coastal southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales with substantial populations in Beechmont area. Native to China, Japan, Korea, Thailand and Vietnam.