Description
Viburnum awabuki(scientific name: Viburnum odoratissimum Ker-Gawl. var. awabuki (K. Koch) Zabel ex Rumpl.) is a viburnum plant in the Honeysuckle family, an evergreen shrub or small tree, about 10 meters high. The crown is obovate, the branches are straight, and the bark is gray-brown with round lenticels. The leaves are opposite, the surface is dark green, and green all year round. . Panicles are usually born on juvenile tops with two pairs of leaves; corolla tube is 3.5-4 mm long; styles are thinner, about 1 mm long. The pit is usually obovate to obovate-elliptic, 6-7 mm long. Flowering period from May to June, fruit maturity period from September to October.
Distributed in southern Korea, Japan and China. It is distributed in Zhejiang (Putuo, Zhoushan) and Taiwan in China; it is commonly cultivated in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China. [3] Like warm and humid climate, like light and shade.
Japanese coral tree is an ideal landscaping tree species. Because of its strong resistance and absorption capacity to soot and toxic gases, it is especially suitable for urban hedgerows or garden clusters.
