Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Dipsacales > Viburnaceae > Viburnum > Viburnum opulus

Viburnum opulus (European cranberrybush; Guelder rose; viburnum)

Synonyms:

Wikipedia Abstract

Viburnum opulus (common name guelder-rose) is a species of flowering plant in the family Adoxaceae (formerly Caprifoliaceae) native to Europe, northern Africa and central Asia.
View Wikipedia Record: Viburnum opulus

Infraspecies

Viburnum opulus var. americanum (American Cranberrybush Viburnum)
Viburnum opulus var. opulus
Viburnum opulus var. roseum

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium
Screening - Summer [3]  Dense
Screening - Winter [3]  Moderate
Bee Flower Color [2]  Blue-Green
Flower Color [3]  White
Foliage Color [3]  Green
Fruit Color [3]  Red
Bloom Period [3]  Late Spring
Drought Tolerance [3]  Medium
Edible [4]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [3]  Medium
Flower Type [4]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [3]  3 months 20 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [3]  High
Fruit/Seed Begin [3]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [3]  Fall
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, Bats
Propagation [3]  Bare Root, Container, Seed
Root Depth [3]  14 inches (36 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [3]  Slow
Seed Vigor [3]  Low
Seeds Per [3]  13600 / lb (29983 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [3]  Erect
Structure [4]  Shrub
Usage [4]  A red dye is obtained from the fruit; An ink can be made from the dried berries; Plants can be grown as a tall hedge; The wood can be used to make skewers;
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]  16.4 feet (5 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [3]  USDA Zone: 3 Low Temperature: -40 F° (-40 C°) → -30 F° (-34.4 C°)
Light Preference [6]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [6]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [6]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [6]  Damp
Water Use [3]  Moderate
View Plants For A Future Record : Viburnum opulus

Protected Areas

+ Click for partial list (100)Full list (133)

Ecosystems

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Cheilosia morio[8]
Eoseristalis arbustorum[8]
Eristalis interrupta[8]
Hilara interistincta[8]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Golovinomyces sparsus[11]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 4Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 5PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004)
♦ 6ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 7HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 8Ecology of Commanster
♦ 9Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 10Birds and guelder rose Viburnum opulus: selective consumption and dispersal via regurgitation of small-sized fruits and seeds, Ángel Hernández, Plant Ecol (2009) 203:111–122
♦ 11Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 12Farwig, Nina; Schabo, Dana G.; Albrecht, Jörg (2017), Data from: Trait-associated loss of frugivores in fragmented forest does not affect seed removal rates, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.2784g
♦ 13Birds and berries: a study of an ecological interaction. Calton, Great Britain, Snow B.K., Snow D.W., 1988, T & AD Poyser. 268 p.
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