Burkwood's Viburnum (Viburnum 'Burkwoodii') in the Viburnums Database

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit:	Shrub Tree
Life cycle:	Perennial
Sun Requirements:	Full Sun Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences:	Mesic
Soil pH Preferences:	Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5) Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Minimum cold hardiness:	Zone 4b -31.7 °C (-25 °F) to -28.9 °C (-20 °F)
Maximum recommended zone:	Zone 8b
Plant Height:	8-10 feet
Plant Spread:	6-8 feet
Leaves:	Good fall color Semi-evergreen Deciduous Other: Young stems and buds are also hairy
Fruit:	Edible to birds Other: Red maturing to black
Fruiting Time:	Summer
Flowers:	Showy Fragrant
Flower Color:	White Other: pink buds open to white snowballs
Bloom Size:	2"-3"
Flower Time:	Spring
Uses:	Windbreak or Hedge
Wildlife Attractant:	Birds Butterflies
Resistances:	Deer Resistant Rabbit Resistant Drought tolerant
Propagation: Other methods:	Cuttings: Stem
Pollinators:	Various insects
Miscellaneous:	Monoecious

Common names

Burkwood's Viburnum

Also sold as:

Viburnum x burkwoodii

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Location: Oxfordshire, England
Date: 2016-04-09

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Location: Hortus Camera Lapidea
Date: 2009-04-19

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Location: From my collection. Poland.
Date: 2022-05-11

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Location: Hortus Camera Lapidea
Date: 2009-04-14

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Location: Hortus Camera Lapidea
Date: 2014-03-30
Viburnum burkwoodii

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Location: Farmer John's Greenhouse, Farmington Hills, MI
Date: 2009-04-16

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Location: Hortus Camera Lapidea
Date: 2009-04-11

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Location: Pleasant Grove, Utah
Date: 2012-04-12
In my garden

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Location: Carson City, NV
Date: 2020-04-16

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Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: 2014-04-07

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Location: From my garden. Poland.
Date: 2017-05-12

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Location: Pacific Northwest
Date: 2009-10-26
Fall color

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Location: Pacific Northwest
Date: 2011-04-14

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Courtesy American Daylily and Perennials

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Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: Apr 19, 2013

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Location: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Date: 2018-09-27

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Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: Feb 28, 2013

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Location: DeKalb, Illinois
Date: fall of 1984
shrub at foundation of NIU building

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Location: Media, Pennsylvania
Date: 2008-04-20
full-grown shrub in bloom

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Comments:

Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Apr 30, 2019 3:18 PM concerning plant:

This Burkwood Viburnum is a hybrid species (V. x burkwoodii) between the Koreanspice Viburnum x the Service Viburnum (V. utile), the latter being an evergreen straggly shrub from central China. It has dark green semi-evergreen leaves that often get a good fall color late of yellow-orange-red. It was developed in England at the Burkwood & Skipwith Nursery in 1914. It has very fragrant white flower clusters like the Koreanspice, but it is a larger shrub that is sort of straggly with smaller, really dark green leaves. It is one of the scurfy Viburnums with rough, hairy twigs and buds. Some are sold at many larger, diverse nurseries. This hybrid species is used much more by landscape architects and designers than the general public.

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Burkwood's Viburnum (Viburnum 'Burkwoodii')