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Alabama Arrowwood (Viburnum alabamense)

Description

This is usually a multistemmed shrub that becomes 5-15' tall. Individual branches are often exceptionally long and straight. The bark of larger branches is light brown to grey with tiny lenticels and occasional vertical ridges, while smaller branches are light brown, rather smooth, and hairless. Pairs of opposite leaves occur at intervals along the smaller branches and twigs. The leaf blades are up to 4" long and 3" across; they are ovate-oval to cordate-orbicular in shape and very coarsely dentate along their margins. The upper surface of each leaf is medium green, glabrous, and prominently veined, while the lower surface is whitish green and hairless (or nearly so). Sometimes, there are small tufts of cobwebby hairs on the lower surface of a blade where the lateral veins connect to the central vein. At the base of each leaf blade, there is a slender hairless petiole about --1" long.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum: Magnoliophyta

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Dipsacales

            • Family: Adoxaceae

              • Genus: Viburnum