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Plant: Chindo - Viburnum
Viburnum · Viburnum awabuki 'Chindo'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
Chindo is a fast growing, dense, erect and pyramidal broadleaf evergreen 10 to 12 feet tall and 6 to 8 feet wide, grown above all for its glossy leathery dark green leaves 3 to 7 inches long, which give it the name mirror leaf viburnum. Fragrant white tubular flowers open in rounded clusters in spring and are followed by pendulous red to purple drupes in fall. It takes full sun or partial shade in clay, loam or sandy soil at any pH with good drainage, tolerates occasional dryness, and is deer resistant and drought tolerant. Its speed and density make it a first choice evergreen screen or tall hedge.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 12 ft tall and 8 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 7-9
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
Chindo is a fast growing, dense, erect and pyramidal broadleaf evergreen 10 to 12 feet tall and 6 to 8 feet wide, grown above all for its glossy leathery dark green leaves 3 to 7 inches long, which give it the name mirror leaf viburnum. Fragrant white tubular flowers open in rounded clusters in spring and are followed by pendulous red to purple drupes in fall. It takes full sun or partial shade in clay, loam or sandy soil at any pH with good drainage, tolerates occasional dryness, and is deer resistant and drought tolerant. Its speed and density make it a first choice evergreen screen or tall hedge.
- Flowers
- Lightly fragrant small white flowers in rounded clusters in spring.
- Foliage
- Simple, opposite, glossy leathery green leaves 3 to 7 inches long and 1 to 3 inches wide with serrated margins; the polish of the foliage gives the plant its other name of mirror leaf viburnum.
- Fruit
- Fruits are pendulous, large, red to purple berry-like drupes.
- Bark & stems
- Stems and branches are stout, angled, with abundant grayish lenticels.
- Pruning
- Prune at most one-third of the shrub after flowering.
- Native range
- India, Burma, China, Japan and the Philippines
