Flower Notes:
White (Snowball flowers appearing in spring are pendulous and have no fragrance)
Foliage Notes:
Dark green, broad-ovate shape
Stem Notes:
Dark gray or brownish, orangish lenticels.
Soil Notes:
Prefers moist, well-drained soil and does not tolerate drought or heavy clay, poorly drained soils
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves opposite, simple 2-4" long, half as wide, ovate, coarsely serrate, pubescent underneath, with impressed veins. Buds are naked. Young stems are tomentose. Flowers are all sterile (no fruits produced) and the clusters resemble snowballs (Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum has flat-topped cymes of sterile and fertile flowers).