Viburnum propinquum Check with George open-branched mound of three to

open-branched mound of three to four feet

That natural rot-resistance comes from the same volatile terpenoids that give the crushed foliage a sweet

now reduced to a scattered handful of sites in Texas

rose-pink flowers carried on slender stalks above a low basal rosette

Recent genetic work tells a different story

Viburnum propinquum Check with George open-branched mound of three toA viburnum grown for the leaves rather than the flowers, and one of the rarest evergreens in the American nursery trade. Viburnum propinquum was described by the botanist William Hemsley in 1888 from the temperate forests of China, and the plant ranges through central and southern China, Taiwan, and north to Luzon in the Philippines. The species name comes from the Latin propinquus, meaning near or akin, a botanist's nod to the plant's close kinship