Re: [SG] Unknown tree

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.
>                                Merrill in Kalamazoo
Merril
I suspect you are looking at a very old Vibutnum
Tomentosum-(DoubleFile).  See if the blossoms you describe, are in to
parallel rowes (ranks) proceding the length of the stem and out to near
the tip.  This is a wonderfull Viburnum!
Ran Lydell
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