Michigan State University Extension
Ornamental Plants plus Version 2.0 - 00001519
01/01/98
Hardiness Zones: 5 to 8 Height: 9 ft Spread: 12 ft Form: rounded Type: deciduous shrub Annual Growth Rate: 12 to 18 inches Flowers: white flowers Fruits: red to black
Comments: Doublefile Viburnum produces flat clusters of white flowers. These are followed by red fruit that later turn black. The flower and fruit clusters are usually lined up in two rows on the upper sides of the branches. The horizontal branching habit gives the plant a layered look. The fall foliage color is purplish red.
Cultivars:
'Coles' - This cultivar is straight plicatum not var.
tomentosum. It produces a wide plant that bears
round heads of white flowers.
'Everblooming' - Sporadic flushes of bloom are produced
throughout the season.
'Mariesii' - An improved cultivar with larger flowers.
'Mary Milton' - This cultivar is straight plicatum.
The flowers are pink and the new foliage has reddish
tints.
'Nana' - A dwarf form, 3 feet tall but with few
flowers.
'Newzam' - (Newport, TM) - This cultivar is staight
plicatum not var. tomentosum. It is a rounded
compact plant that produces rounded clusters of
white flowers. The height and spread about 5 feet.
'Pink Beauty' - Pink flowers and a smaller plant than
the species.
'Sawtooth' - A straight plicatum cultivar with large
flowers and prominently toothed leaves.
'Shasta' - A spreading plant that produces 6-inch wide
flower clusters.
'Shoshoni' - A slow growing plant, about 5 feet tall
that blooms heavily.
'Summer Snowflake' - A 6-foot tall plant that flowers
throughout the season.
'Trizam' - (Triumph, TM) - A somewhat smaller cultivar
with heavy flower production.
'Watanabei' - Continuous flowering throughout the
growing season.
References for Cultivars: Lake County Nursery 1997, Spring Meadow Nursery 1997, Bailey Nurseries 1997, Princeton Nurseries 1997, J. Frank Schmidt and Son 1997, Monrovia Nursery Company 1997, Iseli Nursery 1997, Wayside Gardens 1996, Sheridan Nurseries, Ray Wiegand's Nursery 1997, Studebaker Nurseries 1998.