Guelder-rose ❄️🌳🌸

Snowball tree ❄️🌳🌸

Also called snowball tree, the Guelder-rose (Viburnum opulus) is a shrub 3-4 meters tall and can be recognized by its large white inflorescences. Flowers are arranged to attract the attention of pollinating insects 🐝🦋. In fact, the fertile flowers are small and arranged in the center, while the larger sterile flowers are found all around. Pollinating insects, attracted by the larger flowers, will thus approach the real, inconspicuous flowers.

The fruits turn bright red in September, when they ripen, and are as big as peas; they are poisonous.

The guelder-rose lives in clearings and forest edges, on moist, cool and shady soils, including along the banks of streams and rivers.

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The cultivated varieties have spherical inflorescences, in the shape of a snowball ❄️, hence the name.

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