PlantFiles: Linden Arrowwood, Linden Viburnum
Viburnum dilatatum

This plant can be highly invasive. Here's a note from a recent email from a Virginia Native Plant Society email: Since last winter, VNPS members and fellow volunteers have spent hours cutting hundreds of shrubs of Linden Viburnum, which has been steadily choking out the understory of parts of this magnificent forest.

Linden Viburnum is the most recent weed scourge to afflict the greater Capital area. MD/DC chapter of The Nature Conservancy sponsors invasives control work parties at Turkey Run Park along the Potomac to remove Linden Viburnum AKA V. dilitatum.

Well-meaning gardeners have planted these with the idea that the fruit is beneficial to birds. Lipid content of fruit is demonstrated to be inadequate for neotropical migrants. Please don't promote Linden Viburnum.

Also known as the "Linden Viburnum", it is an excellent disease resistant shrub to have in your landscape. Wonderful Spring blossoms of creamy white set against medium green leaves. Coral-red fruits drape from its stems and persist from Fall through Winter. Fall colors come in a range from yellow-to orange-then red. A very easy and wonderful specimen for your garden!

This viburnum is native to eastern Asia. It is an upright to rounded multistemmed 8'-10' shrub that can become leggy at the base. The flowers are creamy white in 3"-5" flattened clusters appearing in May to early June and blooming can be very showy. The fruit is bright red in September and persists into December. They like full sun to light shade, like moist, fertile soil that has a slightly acidic or neutral pH, and are easily transplanted and established. The plants are showy for flowers, summer foliage, and fall foliage and fruit without any serious insect or disease problems - we're talking a great shrub here.