Re: [SG] Unknown tree
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] Unknown tree
- From: R* D* <d*@INDIANA.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 18:57:01 -0500
My guess is some sort of viburnum. 20' is a bit tall but seems possible.
Many viburnums have elmlike leaves--e.g., mariesii, also arrowwood. My two
V. mariesii just finished blooming; one of them grows in v. heavy shade
and is just as floriferous as the other. Further north they may still be
in bloom. I can't remember how many bracts they have surrounding the fl
clusters; would have thought more than 4. Or are they true bracts?
Merrill says blooming in heavy shade, but doesn't say where--in someone's
yard? Your yard? Or the woods? were the fl clusters horizonal on the
branches?
Bobbi Diehl
Bloomington, IN
zone 5/6
On Sun, 16 May 1999, Merrill E. Speeter wrote:
> Blooming in heavy shade is a twenty-foot tree with hundreds of four inch
> blooms that feature four petaled one inch white bracks around hundreds
> of two millimeter flowers in a two-inch spread. None of my books seems
> to show anything similar. Do not recall any fall berries and the plant
> has no thorns. Leaf is elm -like. My dogwoods are very different with a
> very compact center of small flowers surrounded by very large bracks.
> Would appreciate suggestions.
