Viburnum (Viburnum) occurs as genus of about 175 mintage of shrubs or (in two or three coinage) little trees that were previously involved in the caprifoliaceae Caprifoliaceae. Genetic tests by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group showed however that it is aright classified in the moschatel personal Adoxaceae.

It is indigene throughout a moderate Northern Hemisphere, with two or three coinage extending into tropical montane regions within South America and southeast Asia. Within Africa, the genus is confined to the Atlas Mountains.

A leaves come opposite, elementary, & entire, toothed or even lobate; cool moderate metal money are deciduous, while virtually all of the warmly moderate mintage come evergreen. A hairs come star-asteroid.

A flowers are produced around corymbs 5-12 cm through, apiece flower white to cream or even pinkish, little, Three-Five millimetre through, sustaining five flower petal, strongly fragrant within a bit of mintage. A gynoecium has 3 cognate carpels with a nectary on top of the gynoecium. A select few metal money as well have a fringe of big, showy unfertile flowers spherical a perimeter of the corymb to work as a pollinator target.

A fruit is a spherical or even somewhat planate berry, red to purple or blackish, containing one seed; they are eaten by birds and more wildlife, and occasionally come eatable for man (though several others come mildly poisonous to people). A leaves come periodically eaten per larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Buff-tip.

Cultivation and uses
Numbers of coinage of viburnum keep around get popular when garden or landscape plants because of their showy flowers and berries. A hybrid Viburnum x bodnantense (V. farreri 10 V. grandiflorum) is particularly popular for its strongly scented pinkish flowers on the leafless deciduous shoots in mid to late winter. The popular evergreen species is Viburnum rhytidophyllum, grown mainly for its foliage symptom of big leaves by using the strongly wrinkly surface.

Around prehistory, the hanker straight shoots of viburnums were utilized when arrow-shafts.

Species
Just about 150 metal money come known, including a as a result: Viburnum acerifolium - Maple-leaf Viburnum Viburnum atrocyaneum Viburnum betulifolium Viburnum bitchiuense Viburnum bracteatum Viburnum buddleifolium Viburnum burejaeticum Viburnum calvum Viburnum carlesii Viburnum cassinoides Viburnum cinnamonifolium Viburnum cordifolium Viburnum corylifolium Viburnum cotinifolium Viburnum cylindricum Viburnum dasyanthum Viburnum davidii Viburnum dentatum - Arrowwood Viburnum dilatatum Viburnum edule Viburnum ellipticum Viburnum erosum Viburnum erubescens Viburnum farreri - Farrer's Viburnum Viburnum foetens Viburnum foetidum Viburnum furcatum Viburnum grandiflorum - Himalayan Viburnum Viburnum harryanum Viburnum henryi Viburnum hirtum Viburnum hupehense Viburnum ichangense Viburnum japonicum Viburnum kansuense Viburnum lantana - Wayfaring-tree Viburnum lantanoides Viburnum lentago - Nannyberry Viburnum lobophyllum Viburnum macrocephalum Viburnum molle Viburnum mongolicum Viburnum mullaha Viburnum nudum Viburnum odoratissimum Viburnum opulus - Guelder Rose or Snowball-tree Viburnum orientale Viburnum phlebotrichum Viburnum plicatum Viburnum propinquum Viburnum prunifolium - Blackhaw Viburnum rafinesquianum Viburnum recognitum Viburnum rhytidopyllum - Crinkle-leaf Viburnum Viburnum rigidum Viburnum rufidulum Viburnum sargentii Viburnum schensianum Viburnum sempervirens Viburnum setigerum Viburnum sieboldii Viburnum suspensum Viburnum sympodiale Viburnum ternatum Viburnum tinus - Laurustinus Viburnum Viburnum trilobum - Highbush Viburnum Viburnum urceolatum Viburnum utile Viburnum veitchii Viburnum venosum Viburnum wilsonii Viburnum wrightii

da:Snebolle (Viburnum) de:Schneeball (Strauch) eo:Viburno fr:viorne it:Viburnum nl:Sneeuwbal (geslacht)