• Also called American Cranberrybush Viburnum, American Cranberrybush, Kalyna or Highbush or High Bush Cranberry
• Each corymb comprises a ring of outer sterile flowers 2-2.5 cm diameter with conspicuous petals, surrounding a center of small (5 mm), fertile flowers
• Leaves are superficially similar to many maple leaves, most easily distinguished by their somewhat wrinkled surface with impressed leaf venation.
• The bud scales are valvate.
• The flowers are white, produced in corymbs up to 13 cm diameter at the top of the stems.
• The fruit is an oblong red drupe 15 mm long and 12 mm broad, containing a single flat, white seed.
• The leaf buds are green.
• The leaves are opposite, three-lobed, 6-12 cm long and 5-10 cm broad, with a rounded base and serrated margins.
• The stems arch and are very dense, and the twigs are a reddish-brown color.

Care and Handling

Preparation