• leaves opposite, obovate-oblong, large, coarsely serrate, with deeply impressed veins
• leaves glossy dark green, with poor fall coloring
• flower buds large, valvate, often on stem tip, brown, slightly fuzzy
• foliar buds valvate, brown, smaller, appressed
• stems thick, gray, slightly pubescent
• flowers creamy white, in large flat-topped clusters, in mid-late spring
• fruit is an oval drupe, red becoming black, gone by late fall
• fruit pedicel structure is pinkish-red and persists after fruit are gone
• bark becomes rough and plated on older stems
• habit is a very large shrub or small tree, with an open habit and rigid branches
• plant is the largest viburnum covered here

View Viburnum sieboldii page in the UConn Plant Database