Scientific name: Viburnum opulus L.
Common name: Guelder Rose
Description
Habit: An erect, multistemmed, round, deciduous shrub, up to 4 m.
Leaves: Opposite, simple, palmately 3-5 lobed, 4-12 cm long, turning red in the autumn; lobes irregularly toothed; stalked, petiole at least 1.5 cm long with glands near the top.
Flowers: Actinomorphic, numerous, in dense cymes; inner flowers 4-7 mm across, fertile; outer flowers 15-20 mm across, sterile, lacking stamens and carpel; corolla white, with a short tube and 5 rounded, spreading lobes; ovary inferior.
Fruits: A red, 1-seeded, berry-like drupe.
Twigs: Green to brownish, grooved.
Bark: Becomes slightly ridged and furrowed when matures.
Habitat: Hedges, woods, scrub and limestone pavement.
Distribution: Occasional and locally frequent.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No