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oval-leaved viburnum
Viburnum ellipticum
Viburnum ellipticum, the common viburnum or oval-leaved viburnum, is a species of shrub in family Viburnaceae.
The shrub has deciduous leaves with oval or rounded blades 2 to 6 centimetres (3⁄4 to 2+1⁄4 in) long. The leaf blade usually has three main longitudinal veins and a shallowly toothed edge. The inflorescence is a flat-topped cyme of many unpleasant-smelling white flowers, each 6 to 8 millimetres (1⁄4 to 5⁄16 in) wide with five petals and five whiskery, white stamens. The fruit is a drupe about 1 cm long, red, blackening with age.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 79500.