Distribution and localisation map
Hobblebush
Viburnum lantanoides
Viorne bois-d'orignal
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Easily identifiable with its large elder like leaves and its semi-creeping bearing hence his english name Hobblebush.
Territory:
South of 48th , so absent or present only in the south of the following regions: Abitibi, Côte-Nord and Lac-St-Jean, Gaspésie rare, absent of Nord-du-Québec.Habitat:
Forest, in fresh wood especially maple groves.Flowering:
In bloom in May, fruit in late August, September, October.Similar:
There is another shrub with the same type of inflorescence, a ring of large sterile flowers surrounding small fertile flowers, the Highbush cranberry (Viburnum trilobum) but its leaves are very different, trilobed, somewhat similar to maple leaves.Another plant is also known under the term moosewood but this little tree looks nothing like the Hobblebush, it is the Striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum).
