Taxon: Viburnum lantana L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Viburnum lantana forma variegatum (no accessions)
• Viburnum lantana var. glabratum (no accessions)

Common names:

• mealytree   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• twistwood   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• wayfaring-tree   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• parkolvon   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Krussmann)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Viburnum lantana from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iran [n.]; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France; Spain

• naturalized elsewhere

• also cultivated

References:

• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McAtee, W. L. 1956. Review of the nearctic Viburnum. 108–109.
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Viburnum lantana.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Viburnum lantana.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Viburnum lantana.

Check other web resources for Viburnum lantana L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Viburnum lantana cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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