27+ Popcorn Viburnum Fall Color

Flower arrangement shape and size. Appreciates afternoon shade in warmest zones.

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Popcorn viburnum fall color

Cassinoides but what distinguishes this bush is the foliage color. Partial to full sun. A lovely compact hedge or foundation plant.

Profuse clusters of small popcorn ball shaped blooms line each branch in spring. Sumac bushes may not be the first thing that comes to mind for providing fall colors in the landscape. Its mature dimensions are 8 feet tall with a similar spread.

In spring the branches of this japanese snowball viburnum plicatum are packed with 2 3 round clusters of white blossoms. In fact some people regard them as weeds perhaps mistaking all rhus shrubs for poison sumac. Fall color is also yellow.

But many varieties of sumac are excellent landscape plants providing fall colors ranging from reddish or maroon to golden. Popcorn viburnum features handsome deeply veined green foliage that turns red to purple in fall. The new leaves sport an unusual golden yellow color that will eventually fade to green unless the plant is grown in the shade.

The flowers and the berries are similar to those on v. Multi stemmed popcorn has an attractive upright tiered habit and burgundy red fall color. Blue muffin viburnum or viburnum dentatum blue muffin grows 5 to 6 feet tall compared to a full size plant at 8 to 10 feet.

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