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Snowball Hairy
Hairy Snowball (Viburnum lantana) is a woody species that grows 2-6 m tall, deciduous in winter, and forms a shrub or small tree. Young shoots and buds are grayish in color and have stellate hairs. Leaves are ovate or elliptical, 4-10 x 3-7 cm in size, base is rounded or cordate, margins are finely toothed, upper surface is dark green and densely pubescent, lower surface is green, grayish star-shaped hairy; veins 8-12 pairs, ending in the pointed tips of the teeth; The stem is short, coarsely hairy. Flowering occurs between May and June; Inflorescence compound umbellate, 7 main branches, many-flowered; flowers almost sessile; bract up to 1 cm, outer part coarsely hairy; calyx lobes triangular; crown cylindrical, tube-bell shaped, with five lobes separated from each other at the tip, yellowish-white; stamen hairless, protruding from crown; anther yellow; The ovary is hairless. Fruiting occurs between August and September; The fruit is like a long egg, 8 mm long, first red and then shiny black.