Viburnum macrocephalum Fortune is a plant in the Viburnaceae family, order Dipsacales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.
Viburnum macrocephalum Fortune
Viburnum macrocephalum, or Chinese snowball, is a flowering plant native to mainland China with a culturally significant fertile form.
Viburnum macrocephalum Fortune, known in Chinese as 繡球莢蒾 "hydrangea viburnum" or 木繡球 "tree hydrangea", has the common name Chinese snowball. This flowering plant species belongs to the family Adoxaceae; it was previously classified under Caprifoliaceae, and it is native to mainland China. Its fertile form, Viburnum macrocephalum f. keteleeri, is called 瓊花 (qiong hua, "white jade flower") in Chinese, and this form holds great cultural significance in China.
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Sambucus australis Cham. & Schltdl.
Viburnum cassinoides L.
Viburnum propinquum Hemsl.
Sambucus canadensis L.
Viburnum suspensum Lindl.
Viburnum rafinesqueanum Schult.
Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer
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