Plant Details

Viburnum propinquum, sometimes commonly called Chinese evergreen viburnum, is a compact, bushy, rounded, evergreen shrub that typically grows in a mound to 6-8' tall and as wide. It is native to forest areas in central and western China. Small greenish-white flowers in showy rounded clusters (umbel-like cymes to 2-3" wide) bloom in late spring. Flowers are followed by small, glossy, egg-shaped fruits that mature to blue-black in fall. Fruits are attractive to birds. Reddish-brown new growth branchlets turn gray after the first year. Glossy, leathery, 3-veined, opposite, elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, deep green leaves (to 3 1/2" long) are evergreen, but acquire burgundy tones in fall-winter.