Solved Help two old doddery dimwits please

No it's Viburnum opulus sterile, "Snowball"

 

That’s the one I’ve just repotted, grown from a cutting from one in the garden! Can never remember the name of it, I’ve been referring to it as the pompom plant!

 

Sorry name changed....
Now correct name is Viburnum opulus roseum...syn Viburnum opulus sterile.

Sadly flowers are sterile so no glorious red berries

Viburnum opulus 'Roseum' | red guelder rose Shrubs/RHS


"Viburnum opulus roseum." - Recherche Google



Quote RHS...
Viburnum opulus 'Roseum'

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red guelder rose

A very popular, large, bushy deciduous shrub to about 3m in height, with dark green lobed leaves tinted purplish-red in autumn. Abundant, greenish-white or white sterile flowers in dense rounded clusters to 6cm across, occasionally maturing to pink, are produced in late spring or early summer; the flowers are sterile so no fruit is produced

Other common names
red snowball tree
snowball
see moreWhitsuntide boss
rose elder
snowball tree
Synonyms
Viburnum opulus 'Sterile'

 

Tidemark..Quote...."Yes, it has rather attractive white flowers in spring and red berries that the birds love in autumn"

Been looking at leaves again....they so look like Acer campestre....field maple rather than Viburnum.

You now say it is Viburnum opulus roseum with red berries...that doesn't equate..


the one with round balls of white flowers is sterile...therefore no berries.

 

Ah well that's what I bought it as. Another name changed can't keep up with it. It's like Sedum which will always be sedum to me, Hylotelephium just doesn't do it for me.

 

Mine definitely has those delicious looking squishy red berries, so I’m sticking with Guelder rose for mine.


Ukraine: the Red Guelder Rose song



Good luck everyone else!

 

Has it started flowering yet? These lace cap style flowers normally form now. I had a Ukrainian friend who insisted her sister post this plant to her so she could plant it into her garden. I couldn't work out what this plant was as kept saying it was their special "rose" until I saw it flowered and realised it was a Viburnum.

 

Unfortunately, this one isn’t in our garden, it’s in a hedgerow nearby and has been chopped back a lot. But I’m pretty sure it has the lace cap type flowers, yes. ​