Viburnum tinus

Lorbeerblättriger (Viburnum tinus )

The Lorbeerblättrige (Viburnum tinus ), also laurel snowball, Evergreen snowball or Mediterranean snowball called, is a flowering plant in the genus viburnum ( Viburnum ) within the family of musk weed plants ( Adoxaceae ).

  • 6.1 Notes and references

Description

The Lorbeerblättrige snowball is reached an evergreen shrub or small tree, the growth heights of up to 3.5 meters. The oppositely arranged leaves are constantly simple, leathery and ovate to elliptic. The upper leaf surface is glossy dark green and the lower leaf surface is hairy glandular. The leaf margin is smooth.

All flowers, standing together in a flat, trugdoldigen inflorescence, are fertile. The scented flowers are hermaphrodite and fünfzählig. The five sepals are fused. The five petals are fused Roehrig with outstretched rounded Kronlappen and pink in bud, later white. It's just a circle with five stamens present. The stylus is short. The winter flowering period extends from November to April. Pollination is by insects.

The single-seeded drupes are bluish - black when ripe.

Dissemination

Viburnum tinus is spread throughout the Mediterranean region and naturalized in the British Isles.

The plants are hardy in Central Europe due ( WHZ 7 to 8 ), but thrive well in the open with wine-growing climate.

History

Pliny mentioned " Tinus " as a kind of laurel ( " bacae caerulae " ( Pliny 15.128-129 ) ). Hieronymus Bock called " Tinus " as " wild laurel tree " or otherwise known as " Laurus Agria / Aria ". Rembert Dodoens Also called the Lorbeerblättrigen snowball "Wild Laurus boom, Laurus sylvestris ". Until well into the 17th century, the species was attributed to the bay because of its evergreen, leathery, glossy, ganzrandigen leaves and their shiny metallic fruit.

System

The species name Viburnum tinus was first published in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus in Species Plantarum, 1, p 267. The specific epithet is based tinus due to older designation since Pliny until the 17th century the Latin word tinus for " stone laurel ".

There are three varieties:

  • Viburnum tinus var hirtulum
  • Viburnum tinus var lucidum, Syn: Viburnum lucidum Mill
  • Viburnum tinus L. var tinus

Use

The Lorbeerblättrige snowball is often used as an evergreen ornamental plant in parks and gardens or as a container plant.

Varieties

A number of varieties of gardeners have been read (selection):

  • ' Eve Price': dense, compact than the type
  • ' Exbury form ': Similar to ' Lucidum ', but frost harder than this
  • 'French White': strong growth and white flowers in large stands
  • ' Gwenllian ': compact growth, flowers numerous
  • 'Little Bognor ': flowers appear as early as August, quite hardy
  • 'Pink Prelude ': white flowers, later light pink to deep pink
  • ' Purpureum ': young leaves purple green, later dark green, tinged purple
  • ' Spirit': floriferous, flowers and fruit sometimes simultaneously
  • 'Spring Boquet ': compact growth with brownish green leaves in the bud
  • ' Variegatum ': creamy white to creamy yellow edges leaves, frost-sensitive

Source

  • Rubina Akhter: Viburnum tinus in the Flora of Pakistan: Online. ( Description section )
  • Andreas Bärtels: Encyclopedia of garden shrubs, Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3198-6, p 230
  • Dericks -Tan, Vollbrecht: On the trail of wild fruits in Europe. Abadi - Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-021129-4, p 259
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