Viburnum grandiflorum Wall.

Flowering/Fruiting: May-August.

Viburnum species flowers are hermaphrodites i.e., flowers with functional male (androecium) and female (gynoecium). Pollination is entomophilous i.e., by insects.

Seeds dispersed by barochory i.e., gravitational dispersal, endozoochory i.e., dispersal by birds and animals internally, epizoochory i.e., dispersal by animals externally, and anthropochory i.e., dispersal by humans.

Shrub or small tree about 10-15 ft tall. Bark grayish brown. Branchlets pilose. Young branchlets stellate-pubescent. Leaves opposite, elliptic-oblong, 6-9 x 2.5-3.5 cm across, subglabrous above and hairy beneath, base acute, except in the basal part of the leaf margin crenate-serrate, apex acuminate, lateral veins 7-10 on either side of the midvein, parallel-veined, veins are more prominent and deep from the dorsal side of the leaf, petiole purplish red, about 0.6-0.9 cm long, stipules absent. Inflorescence cyme on short leafless branchlets, clustered densely, sessile. Flowers white and pink, sessile. Outer bracts ovate about 1.5 cm in diameter, obtuse, inner bracts 0.6-1.5 cm, bracteoles linear. Calyx tube glabrous, teeth small, irregular, often ciliate. Corolla-tube 0.6-0.4 cm long, lobes about 0.3 cm long, truncate to obtuse, corolla white inside, pink outside, glabrous, about 1-1.5 cm long, corolla tube broadly ovate. Stamens 5, attached to the corolla tube, 2 slightly above and 3 slightly lower but all lower than the corolla lobes, anthers yellow, stigma subsessile. Fruit drupe yellow, reddish when ripe, ellipsoid about 0.6-1 cm in diameter, hardly compressed.

Susceptible to insects, bacterial and fungal infections.

Forests at an altitude of 10,000 to 13,000 ft.

Not evaluated by the IUCN Redlist.

Fruits are edible.