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Penang Botanic Gardens Plant Collection

Viburnum sambucinum Reinw. ex Blume (ADOXACEAE)

Posted at — Nov 13, 2019

Description

Evergreen shrub or small tree to 10 m tall. Leaves 10-25 cm long, simple and opposite, elliptic. Flowers in dense flat-topped clusters at end of twigs, white. Fruits c. 0.9 cm long, ripening blue-black, flattened-ovate.

Ecology

Frequent in moist semi-open areas of lowland to lower montane forest.

Distribution

Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Java, Borneo, Sulawesi and Lesser Sunda Islands.

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