Viburnum Eskimo Tree
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Alleghany viburnum is dark green but occasionally turns purple in fall remaining throughout winter.
Viburnum eskimo tree. This shrub was discovered by a man named augustine henry. The tea viburnum is a deciduous species with blue green foliage. Types of viburnums with interesting berry color include those that change as they ripen from green to pink yellow or red to blue or black. The flower buds started to appear in mid winter and opened fully in early may.
Its evergreen leaves are reddish when they are young and shift to green and this plant particularly attracts bees butterflies and birds due to its fragrant flowers. Carlcephalum cayuga and its semi evergreen foliage in warm winter climates from parent v. The fragrance is delicious and reminiscent of soft baby powder. Tall and wide 120 150 cm recipient of the prestigious award of garden merit of the royal horticultural society and winner of the gold medal award.
The heavy crops of lightly scented summer flowers open from white buds that are tinged with pink. Variety or cultivar eskimo eskimo is a mound forming semi evergreen shrub with ovate leathery glossy dark green leaves turning red orange and yellow in autumn. In africa the genus is confined to the atlas mountains. I have never seen a viburnum quite like this one.
Dense spherical clusters of pink flushed cream buds open to fragrant tubular white flowers in spring followed by scarlet fruit in autumn. Henry s viburnum shrub can be developed into a small tree by forming a single trunk through pruning. Eskimo is a viburnum cultivar that was registered and released into commerce by the united states national arboretum in 1981. Eskimo viburnum grows up with a mound forming habit at a slow rate to 4 5 ft.
Viburnum erubescens eskimo is a cross between viburnum cayuga and viburnum utile making a wonderful dense semi evergreen shrub that is smothered in pure white snow ball like inflorescence in may. The most striking of the viburnums in our garden is viburnum eskimo. A full sun or part shade lover this plant is easily grown in. It is particularly noted for its tubular flowers in snowball inflorescences from parent v.