Viburnum tinus fresh seeds, Laurustinus, Laurustine, Laurestine, Evergreen shrub seeds, Ornamental plant, Tree seeds (lat. Viburnum tinus).
Evergreen, strongly branching shrub or tree up to 6 m tall. Young branches are greenish-yellow, then light brown, rigidly pubescent, the buds are also pubescent. Three-year-old bark is cracking and dark brown.
Leaves are 3-12 cm long and 1-7 cm wide, ovate or lanceolate, usually with a blunt end, with a rounded or wedge-shaped base. The upper surface of the leaf blade is dark green, the lower surface is light green. Petioles up to 2.5 cm long, light green or lilac-brown.
The flowers are fruit-forming, identical, with a sweet smell, collected at the ends of young branches in dense umbrella-shaped bare inflorescences up to 9 cm in diameter with angular light green pedicels. The corolla is white, pinkish on the outside, five-petaled, divided approximately in half.
The fruits are about 5 mm in diameter, dark blue, then black. The stone is oblong-spherical, five-ribed.
Used in single and group plantings, when constructing hedges.
Undemanding to soil, drought-resistant. Suitable for curly haircuts.