Viburnum carlesii - Koreanspice Viburnum (Adoxaceae) ------Viburnum carlesii is a shrub with pubescent gray- Trunk green foliage, extremely fragrant pink-budded to -mature bark is gray-brown and fissuring on the white-floral, Apr. inflorescences, and a rounded spreading trunks, which branch low to the ground and growth habit. give the shrub its overall rounded or spreading growth habit FEATURES USAGE Form Function -medium- -informal hedge, border, entranceway, foundation, or sized specimen shrub, especially noted for its showy ornamental flowers that have a heavy fragrance shrub Texture -maturing at -medium texture in foliage and when bare about 8' tall x -thick density in foliage and when bare 8' wide Assets -upright -extremely fragrant mid-Apr. inflorescences rounded growth habit, becoming spreading with age -dense and attractive, pubescent, gray-green to blue- and usually branching close to the ground green foliage -slow growth rate -usually branches close to the ground (i.e., generally Culture not leggy with age) -full sun to partial shade Liabilities -adaptable to poorer soils, soils of various pH, and -slow growth rate drought -occasional leaf spot or powdery mildew are minor -propagated primarily by rooted stem cuttings, but cosmetic foliage diseases also by seeds or grafting Habitat -Honeysuckle Family, with no significant pest -Zones 4 to 7 problems, but bacterial leaf spot and powdery mildew -Native to Korea and Japan are occasional cosmetic diseases -commonly available in B&B form SELECTIONS Foliage Alternates -gray-green to blue-green leaves are dull (that is, not -shrubs with grayish-green or bluish-green foliage shiny), deciduous (or nearly so), (Fothergilla gardenii, Ilex x meserveae, Viburnum opposite, broad-elliptical to ovate, lantana, etc.) subtlely serrated, thick, on a very -fragrant-flowering shrubs (Clethra alnifolia, Itea short petiole, with a dense pubescence virginica, Philadelphus species, Syringa species, on the upper leaf surface and even more densely Viburnum x burkwoodii, Viburnum x juddii, etc.) pubescent on the lower surface, with a white-green -dense and medium-sized, rounded to spreading color beneath informal hedges (Cornus alba Ivory Halo™, Syringa -autumn color is bronzed to wine in good years if meyeri, Viburnum x juddii, Weigela florida placed in a sunny location, but is usually poor in 'Variegata', etc.) shady areas, being of mixed or green color Cultivars - Variants - Related species Flowers -V. carlesii 'Cayuga' - noted for its larger inflores- -dark pink buds open to white cences that do not open all at once, and thus having inflorescences tinged in pink, pink buds and white flowers on the same to 3" in diameter, opening in inflorescence during the early flowering period, but it mid-Apr. with the emergent should be more prominently noted for its extremely foliage and composed of dark-green, shiny, less pubescent, and larger leaves hemispherical to spherical that clothe the stems in a dense coverage of foliage; clusters of individual flowers very vigorous, often listed as a rounded shrub to 5' x inflorescences are extremely 5', but closer to 8' x 5' and somewhat leggy with age fragrant and effective for 2 weeks -V. carlesii 'Compactum' - slowly maturing to 3' x 3', Fruit a truly compact form of the species, but unfortunately -clusters of fruit change from green to red to black by rare in commerce early autumn, with each small fruit being broadly -Viburnum x carlcephalum – Carlcephalum or elliptical but distinctly flattened Fragrant Viburnum - maturing to 8' x 8', with huge -sparsely borne along the fruiting stalk due to poor (5" across) fragrant white spherical inflorescences, a cross-pollination, nearly hidden by the foliage hybrid of V. carlesii and Viburnum macrocephalum -ornamentally insignificant -Viburnum x juddii - Judd Viburnum - slowly Twigs maturing to 8' x 8', identical in appearance and -twigs are tan and pubescent, becoming densely fragrance yet a slightly superior alternative to branching with age, and with buds that are naked Koreanspice Viburnum, as it has better resistance to (i.e., without true scales) leaf spot and is easier to root for propagation; a -the prominent terminal floral buds are knobby and hybrid of V. carlesii and V. bitchiuense obvious in winter, while the vegetative buds are terminal or lateral and elongated