A hybrid between V. carlesii (seed-parent) and V. macrocephalum f. keteleeri, raised by Messrs Burkwood and Skipwith about 1932 but scarcely known until it received an Award of Merit in 1946. It is a shrub to about 8 ft high and wide, with leaves resembling those of V. carlesii but larger and with a slight gloss, sometimes colouring in the autumn. Flowers in May in dense trusses up to 6 in. wide, up to 100 in each, fragrant, pink in the bud, white with a flush of pink when expanded. A fast-growing shrub, thriving and flowering well even in cold localities, but lacking in charm, with its stiff branching and rather lumpy trusses.
Viburnum × carlcephalum Burkwood & Skipwith ex A. V. Pike
Genus
Other species in the genus
- Viburnum acerifolium L.
- Viburnum betulifolium Batal.
- Viburnum × bodnantense Stearn
- Viburnum buddleifolium C. H. Wright
- Viburnum burejaeticum Reg. & Herder
- Viburnum × burkwoodii Burkwood & Skipwith ex Anon. in
- Viburnum carlesii Hemsl.
- Viburnum cassinoides L.
- Viburnum cotinifolium D. Don
- Viburnum cylindricum Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don (1825)
- Viburnum davidii Franch.
- Viburnum dentatum L.
- Viburnum dilatatum Thunb.
- Viburnum erosum Thunb.
- Viburnum farreri Stearn
- Viburnum foetidum Wall.
- Viburnum grandiflorum Wall.
- Viburnum harryanum Rehd.
- Viburnum henryi Hemsl.
- Viburnum hupehense Rehd.
- Viburnum japonicum (Thunb.) Spreng.
- Viburnum kansuense Batal.
- Viburnum lantana L.
- Viburnum lantanoides Michx.
- Viburnum lentago L.
- Viburnum macrocephalum Fort.
- Viburnum molle Michx.
- Viburnum nudum L.
- Viburnum odoratissimum Ker-Gawler
- Viburnum opulus L.
- Viburnum phlebotrichum Sieb. & Zucc.
- Viburnum plicatum Thunb.
- Viburnum propinquum Hemsl.
- Viburnum prunifolium L.
- Viburnum rhytidophyllum Hemsl.
- Viburnum rigidum Vent.
- Viburnum rufidulum Raf.
- Viburnum schensianum Maxim.
- Viburnum setigerum Hance
- Viburnum sieboldii Miq.
- Viburnum suspensum Lindl.
- Viburnum tinus L.
- Viburnum utile Hemsl.
- Viburnum veitchii C. H. Wright
- Viburnum wilsonii Rehd.
- Viburnum wrightii Miq.