Viburnum japonicum prophouse-summer-2027 Woodlanders sold this plant for

Woodlanders sold this plant for years as Zephyranthes fosteri

A shrub or small tree of the shaded understory

have long been gathered for food

and site the tree where the spring show can be seen

This shrubby plant has showy red flowers and leaves that are intermediate between the parent species (which see)

Viburnum japonicum prophouse-summer-2027 Woodlanders sold this plant forCarl Peter Thunberg, the Swedish physician who talked his way onto the Dutch trading island of Dejima in 1775 and used the post to become one of the first Europeans to seriously botanize a closed Japan, was the first to describe this plant to science. Richard Oldham, the last of the great Kew collectors, gathered the shrub again near Nagasaki in 1862 and called the plant, a little dismissively, a small tree on the hills. In a garden the plant never