snowball

plant
Also known as: Viburnum opulus roseum, guelder rose

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  • Japanese snowball (Viburnum plicatum)
    In viburnum

    variety roseum, is known as snowball, or guelder rose, for its round, roselike heads of sterile florets. Chinese snowball (V. macrocephalum variety sterile) and Japanese snowball (V. plicatum) are common snowball bushes with large balls of white to greenish white flowers. The 4.5-metre- (15-foot-) high black haw (V. prunifolium), of…

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