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Gemeiner Schneeball

Viburnum opulus L.

Description

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A deciduous shrub, branches and stem smooth, glabrous and angled, young buds protected by scales. Leaves palmately 3-5-nerved; 12 x 8 cm, irregularly 3-5-lobed, lobes coarsely dentate, glabrous above, pubescent beneath; petiole 2-3 cm long, with a narrow groove and large discoid glands. Stipules filiform with disc-like glands at the tip. Flowers sterile, in peduncled corymbs. Calyx small. Corolla 5-15 mm in diameter.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 10 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of Pakistan @ eFloras.org
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S. I. Ali & M. Qaiser
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Distribution

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Distribution: A native of Europe and N. Africa. The ‘Guelder rose’ or ‘Snow-ball tree’ is reportedly cultivated in Abbottabad (fide R. R. Stewart, l.c.).
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cc-by-nc-sa-3.0
copyright
Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 10 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
source
Flora of Pakistan @ eFloras.org
editor
S. I. Ali & M. Qaiser
project
eFloras.org
original
visit source
partner site
eFloras