Hambuline lodjapuu "Vasilisa" Viburnum dentatum

This is a tall (3.5-5 m), densely branched shrub with smooth, light-gray bark. The crown is wide-spreading, 5.5 meters in diameter. 30-year-old plants are 3.3-3.5 m high, the crown diameter is 2.5-2.8 m. The leaves are bright green, unusually rounded, with deep straight veins ending in large teeth along the entire edge of the leaf, 3-8 cm long. The flowers are white, small, collected in an inflorescence 6 cm in diameter. It blooms in June-July, in nature: in May-June. The fruits are dark blue, small, 6-8 cm long, numerous, bitter in taste, readily eaten by birds.

Eng.: Southern arrowwood, Arrowwood viburnum, Roughish arrowwood. Suom.: Hammasheisi. Sven.: Tandolvon.