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Viburnum lantana (wayfaring tree; wayfaringtree)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Viburnum lantana (wayfarer or wayfaring tree) is a species of Viburnum, native to central, southern and western Europe (north to Yorkshire in England), northwest Africa, and southwestern Asia. The vigorous deciduous European treelike shrub is common along waysides. An older name for the plant is hoarwithy. "Hoar" means grey-haired and refers to the hairs under the leaves, and "withy" means a pliant stem.
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Infraspecies

Viburnum lantana f. lantana
Viburnum lantana f. variegatum

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium
Screening - Summer [3]  Moderate
Screening - Winter [3]  Porous
Bee Flower Color [2]  Blue-Green
Flower Color [3]  White
Foliage Color [3]  Green
Fruit Color [3]  Black
Bloom Period [3]  Late Spring
Dispersal Mode [7]  Endozoochory
Drought Tolerance [3]  None
Edible [4]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [3]  Low
Flower Type [4]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [3]  4 months 10 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [3]  Medium
Growth Form [3]  Multiple Stem
Growth Period [3]  Spring, Summer
Growth Rate [3]  Slow
Hazards [4]  Large quantities of the fruit can cause vomiting and diarrhoea; The fruit is of very low or zero toxicity, it only causes mild upsets when eaten unripe or in large quantities;
Leaf Type [4]  Deciduous
Lifespan [5]  Perennial
Pollinators [4]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Propagation [3]  Bare Root, Container, Cutting, Seed
Root Depth [3]  14 inches (36 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [3]  Slow
Seed Vigor [3]  Low
Seeds Per [3]  8700 / lb (19180 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [3]  Erect
Specific Gravity [8]  0.723
Structure [4]  Shrub
Usage [4]  The young stems can be used as a twine; This species is used as a rootstock for all forms of viburnums that require grafting;
Vegetative Spread Rate [3]  None
Fall Conspicuous [3]  Yes
Flower Conspicuous [3]  Yes
Fruit Conspicuous [3]  Yes
Height [4]  16.4 feet (5 m)
Width [4]  13.12 feet (4 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [3]  USDA Zone: 3 Low Temperature: -40 F° (-40 C°) → -30 F° (-34.4 C°)
Light Preference [6]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [6]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [6]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [6]  Moist
Water Use [3]  High
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Protected Areas

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Erysiphe hedwigii[11]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
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♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 4Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
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♦ 9HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 10Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
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Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0