White (Flowers appearing in May as 2-4" dia. flat-topped cymes with a ring of showy sterile flowers surrounding a center of inconspicuous fertile flowers)

Foliage Notes:

Green (Glossy summer foliage); Red (Handsome red fall foliage)

Fruit Notes:

Red (Berries in 3" dia. clusters are showy beginning in late summer, arise from inner fertile flowers; shrivel like raisins from fall into winter)

Ultimate Height:

4-6 feet

Ultimate Spread:

4-6 feet

Light Requirements:

Soil Notes:

Widely adapted to soils, although prefers moist, wet sites

Range:

Cultivated origin

Diagnostic Characteristics:

Opposite, 2-4" long 3-lobed leaves resemble those of maple. Leaves more toothed than Viburnum trilobum, the American Cranberrybush Viburnum. A few distinct disk-like glands on grooved leaf petiole near blade. (V. trilobum has stalked, dome-shaped sticky glands.)

Special Characteristics:

Flowering Characteristics 289

Fruiting Characteristics 117

Wet Soil Tolerant 109

Additional Information

'Compactum' is a dense, dwarf cultivar that produces an abundance of flowers and fruits and has excellent fall color. Widely tolerant of soils and microclimates, although found in more wet sites in wild stands. May be troubled by aphids. Prune on a 3-year cycle to maintain best form and fruiting. Flower cymes have an outer showy and sterile ring and an inner inconspicuous and fertile cluster which produces the berries.