Tell us what Sargent's viburnum is and what it should look like? I came across a bush with yellow fruits from friends, they claim that they purchased it as a varietal at a nursery. And my grandmother grew a completely barren bush, although it bloomed all the time. Maybe it was a different species?

Viburnum Sargent is one of the beautiful varieties of ornamental varieties of viburnum. Even a single bush in the garden can become a real decoration, especially when the time of flowering comes and delicate inflorescences open on the branches, the white color of which is favorably set off by the bright green lush deciduous crown.

Description of the variety

Sargenta is a large shrub with a powerful spreading crown and a large number of lateral shoots, thanks to which viburnum grows very lush. In summer, due to the dense foliage on numerous branches, the shoots themselves are practically invisible. The leaves are attached to the shoots with long petioles, which distinguishes the variety from the common viburnum, which has shorter petioles. By autumn the foliage takes on a beautiful purple hue.

At the end of May, the plant blooms with large inflorescences about 3 cm in diameter, and the inflorescences are either sterile or bisexual. The former are always only white, while the latter have a creamy tint. The fruits ripen in mid-autumn and are usually quite small and red, although there are exceptions. They are edible and have medicinal properties.

The size of the bush is impressive: adult plants reach a height of up to 4 m, while the diameter of the crown is almost equal to the total height of the viburnum, and the diameter of old branches can reach up to 5 cm at their base. The variety easily tolerates frosty winters without shelter and is able to grow in shaded areas. Grows better in fertile and rich soils.

Viburnum Sargenta is a long-lived perennial and can reach 50 years of age.

Species forms of the variety

There are about 7 varieties of the variety, but the most famous among them are.

I try to create a natural garden with a variety of varietal and wild (including rare) plants, combining beauty, benefits and respect for the environment. perfect for this type of garden.

I already have several growing common (Viburnum opulus) : Red bunch, Ulgen, Red coral, f. xanthocarpum, Viburnum lantana (Viburnum lantana) , Sargent's viburnum (Viburnum sargentii) Onondaga and several seedlings that grew on their own.

Sweet-fruited varieties

Red bunch. Obtained from the All-Russian Research Institute of Genetics and Selection of Fruit Plants named after. I.V. Michurina. Productivity is high. The bush is medium-sized, medium-spreading. The berries are large, dark burgundy, spherical. The pulp is juicy, sweet and sour with a pleasant bitterness. Despite the self-fertility, if there is space, it is better to plant at least one more bush of a different variety - then the yield will be much higher.

Ulgen. Bred to NIISS named after. M.A. Lisavenko. The bush is tall (up to 3.5 m) and spreading. The fruits are intense red, round. The taste is slightly bitter. Productivity is high. Self-sterile, well pollinated by pollen of all varieties and seedlings of Viburnum. The advantages of the variety are large fruit (0.7-0.9 g), small seeds, good quality of fresh fruits and raw jam. In dry years without watering, the yield sharply decreases and the size of the fruit decreases.

Red coral. Created at the All-Russian Research Institute of Horticulture named after. I.V. Michurina. The bush is compact, medium-sized. Ripe fruits are bright red, round, large. The taste is slightly bitter with a strong aroma. High cluster density, yield often exceeds 10 kg per bush.

f. xanthocarpum. A low, lush bush with amber, almost transparent fruits. The taste and properties are like regular viburnum. Blooms in May. The leaves are yellow-green in spring, green in summer, and often yellow in autumn.

I did not notice a significant difference in the taste of berries from varietal plants. The berries of the variety seemed to me to be the largest and most delicious. Ulgen , and they held onto the hand more tightly than other varieties. Berries varieties Red coral And Red bunch were a little smaller, the bone was larger. This year, after the hurricane, more than half of the berries are Red bunch ended up on the ground.

Research by scientists and the experience of amateur gardeners show that yield, weight of berries, and number of fruits in an inflorescence vary greatly from year to year depending on the weather. The yield is much greater with good care (sufficient lighting, application, regular watering and mulching, presence of pollinators,).

Decorative varieties

. Outwardly similar to common viburnum, but, in my opinion, much more decorative. This 2-3 m tall shrub is very beautiful when the leaves open and during flowering. Young foliage is bronze-reddish. Large corymbose inflorescences have pinkish-white sterile flowers at the edges, and fertile burgundy flowers in the center. Autumn leaf color is bright orange-red. The berries are red, small, and bitter in taste. Just like the common viburnum, the bark, leaves, flowers and fruits are used for medicinal purposes.

. An adult plant is a dense bush 3-4 m high. Young branches seem to be made of light felt, shoots are scaly and pubescent. The oval leaves are green on top, grayish-felt on the underside, pleasant to the touch. The fruits, which change color from red to black when ripe, are very decorative. Almost no damage from pests and diseases. The bark, fruits and leaves have antibacterial activity and are used for medicinal purposes.

Do you need viburnum without bitterness?

The bitterness of viburnum berries comes from iridoids, or bitter glycosides - biologically active substances that increase appetite and improve digestion, have diuretic, wound-healing, sedative, tranquilizing, and antimicrobial activity. This means that the sweet (without bitterness) viburnum that breeders strive to obtain will not be so healthy. The bitterness in viburnum decreases after freezing or prolonged heating. But in thermally treated fruits, compared to fresh ones, the chemical composition changes significantly: the amount of pectin decreases by 21.2%, sugars by 6.1%, and the loss of ascorbic acid reaches 94%, and P-vitamin activity is lost. Therefore, it is better to freeze the viburnum before use in the freezer or collect it after the onset of frost (but then the harvest may go to the birds).

Pies, jam, fruit juice, kvass, jelly, jelly, pastille and marmalade, sauce, even a substitute (from seeds). I think the healthiest and simplest thing is to freeze the berries in portioned bags or make pureed viburnum with (possibly sugar).

Recipe for pureed viburnum

Sort the berries, wash, pour over boiling water or steam to soften the skin, rub through a sieve until pureed. Mix the resulting mass with honey or sugar in a 1:1 ratio until smooth, pour into jars and place in a cool place. To better dissolve the sugar, the mixture can be heated (not higher than +60 °C). You can mix viburnum berries with or (they ripen at about the same time).

This preparation is good to add to tea or make a vitamin drink for prevention and strengthening the immune system. Viburnum also has a calming, antiseptic, diuretic, astringent, hemostatic, antiallergic effect, stabilizes blood pressure, and stimulates cardiac activity. Viburnum preparations are used in official and folk medicine. But remember that there are contraindications.

The genus includes 200 species, distributed in the subtropical and temperate zones of Eurasia.

Description of viburnum

Viburnum grows in the form of deciduous or evergreen shrubs, sometimes small trees. Most species are shade-tolerant and moisture-loving. Absolutely all species have opposite, sometimes whorled, arrangement of leaves. Red or black fruits are mostly edible. Viburnum reproduces cuttings, seeds, layering. Residents of central Russia have the sign of viburnum due to its wide distribution - common viburnum.

In the wild, it can be found in almost every forest - in a clearing, edge, clearing.

Viburnums are very decorative. Most begin to bloom in May, ending the spring riot of flowers with pinkish, white or yellowish inflorescences. Flowering, sometimes stretching for three weeks. All viburnums are excellent honey plants.

Viburnums are also famous for their fruits. The berries acquire color already in August. They look great against the background of a green crown, delight the eye all autumn and decorate the bushes even in winter. In some species the fruits are pinkish-orange or red. Other types of viburnum produce black berries with a blue or bluish tinge. But there is such a viburnum that has fruits of 2 colors: ripe ones are black, and others, unripe ones, are red in color.

Types and varieties of viburnum

Some species of viburnum have decorative forms that differ from their ancestors in special appearance features. The most famous cultivar of viburnum is Buldenezh.

Viburnum red or common

It grows in the forest and forest-steppe zones of almost all of Europe.

Shrub or tree 4 m in height. The trunk of the bush is covered with fissured bark. The leaves of the common viburnum are large, 5-lobed, light green in the spring season, simply green in the summer, and reddish in the fall.

Barren white flowers bloom several days earlier than fertile viburnums, decorating the bush for 15 days. The fruits are red, round-shaped drupes with yellow flesh, edible, and look cute against the background of greenery.

Has decorative forms:

Viburnum common"Nanum" is a dwarf form (1m) with small leaves. Grows from April to early October. Growth is slow. In winter it freezes a little.

Viburnum common“Roseum” is the most common, it is also called “Bulde-nezh”. The height of the bush is 2 m, the height of the tree is 4 m. The crown of the common viburnum Buldenezh is wide-spreading. The spherical inflorescences consist of sterile flowers, first olive, then white, resembling snowballs.

When blooming, the flowers of the viburnum Buldenezh turn pink. During flowering, which lasts 35 days, the shrub is decorative both in group and single plantings. It looks especially impressive near the water and in standard form.

Viburnum common"Compactum" ("Compactum"), the bush is up to 2 m in height. It blooms in June.

Flowers of Viburnum vulgare "Compactum", marginal white, middle small, bisexual, pinkish or white. The fruits of Viburnum Viburnum "Compactum" are bright red..

Viburnum common"Aureum" A compact bush with a height of 2 m. The foliage is yellow and turns green in summer. Her flowers are white. The fruits of Viburnum viburnum "Aureum" are beautiful red. Looks beautiful in light partial shade, especially in sunny, hot summers. It may freeze.

Kalina Sargenta

Under natural conditions, it is widespread in the Far East, Eastern Siberia, Sakhalin, Korea, and Japan. Viburnum Sargent is widespread in the European part of Russia, in Altai, the Urals, where it is found along forest edges, clearings, and among thickets near water.

Viburnum Sargent has a spreading bush and leaves with long petioles and a central vein. Flowering begins at the end of May. Sterile flowers up to 3 cm in diameter; the flowers have purple, sometimes yellow, anthers. In early October, spherical, bright red fruits ripen.

Shade-tolerant, winter-hardy. Viburnum Sargent is a good ornamental shrub, especially spectacular during flowering and fruiting, in solitary plants along the banks of reservoirs.

Kalina Gordovina

It is a well-known viburnum with black fruits, which are also edible. Viburnum gourdovina is widespread in Asia Minor, Central and Southern Europe, and the North Caucasus.

Viburnum viburnum has a completely different appearance compared to red viburnum. The shrub is 5 m high. The crown is compact, dense, 2.5 m in diameter.

Viburnum gordovina is one of the most beautiful ornamental shrubs; it has long been used in landscaping parks and gardens. Undemanding to soil, frost-resistant, shade-tolerant, drought-resistant, retains pink-red leaves and black fruits until winter. Excellent propagation by seeds.

This type of viburnum is one of the most beautiful ornamental shrubs, elegant during flowering, during the period of fruit ripening and in the autumn season with brightly colored foliage. Pairs perfectly with linden and oak.

Viburnum pride has decorative forms: variegated - with yellow-variegated foliage; and wrinkled - with larger inflorescences and more wrinkled leaves.

Viburnum gordovina "Aureum". Bush 3 m high, with oval leaves. The leaves are golden on top and silvery-felt underneath.

Viburnum gourdovina "Aureo-variegatum". The leaves of this viburnum have yellow stripes and spots. Flowering occurs in May and can sometimes bear fruit.

Viburnum black

Grows in the south of Khabarovsk and Primorsky Krai. Grows in coniferous-deciduous forests.

A strongly branching, spreading bush about 3 m in height, sometimes a small tree with an openwork crown, a grayish trunk and light, bare, yellow-gray branches. The leaves are elliptical, acute at the apex, dark green above; yellow-white, inconspicuous flowers are collected in stitch-shaped inflorescences.

The fruits of black viburnum have shiny, black skin and sweet pulp, edible.

Black viburnum is light-loving and demanding on the soil. Tolerates transplantation well. Decorative all season, but especially in autumn.

Protection from pests and diseases: viburnum is often affected by the viburnum bark beetle, which eats all the foliage, leaving only veins. To combat it, you can treat it with 0.2% chlorophos.

Decorative forms of viburnum It is best to propagate by cuttings. Their rooting rate is very high.

All viburnums are decorative, some have a variety of decorative forms. Viburnums are very impressive against the background of linden, birch, maple, spruce and rowan trees. Viburnums in the garden are not only beautiful, but also useful, medicinal and edible plants.

Viburnum sargenta- viburnum sargentii koehne
Honeysuckle family - Caprifoliaceae

A strongly branched shrub with straight stems, the height of which sometimes reaches 4 m. The stems and old branches are covered with brownish-gray suberizing bark with longitudinal cracks. Young branches are yellow-brown or reddish. The leaves are broadly ovate, three-lobed, with coarsely toothed edges. The uppermost leaves - flowering branches - are usually entire and entire. Complex corymbose inflorescences have a border of white asexual flowers along the edges. The central parts of the inflorescences are occupied by pale cream small bisexual flowers. They are characterized by prominent stamens with purple anthers. The fruit is a light red, almost spherical drupe with one round, flat stone inside.

Grows in Primorye, Amur region, Sakhalin and the Southern Kuril Islands. The plant is very close to the medicinal viburnum, which is not found in the Far East. It is generally accepted that Sargent's viburnum replaces common viburnum here and can be used on equal terms with it.

At the root of Viburnum viburnum contains the little-studied glycoside viburnin, up to 2% tannins, up to 6.5% yellow-red resin and other substances. The fruits of the plant contain up to 32% sugars, up to 3% tannins, organic acids, vitamin C (up to 14 mg% in leaves).

For medicinal purposes Usually, liquid extract of viburnum bark available in pharmacies is used. You can also prepare a decoction from the bark (20 g per 1 glass of water). Both drugs are used mainly in obstetric and gynecological practice to combat uterine bleeding. They suppress uterine contractility and can therefore be used for painful menstruation. However, while easing pain, drugs can somewhat delay the process. Sometimes viburnum bark preparations have a beneficial effect when a miscarriage begins.

One of the important effects Viburnum bark preparations - increase blood clotting. There is experimental evidence that the leaves, flowers and fruits of this plant also increase blood clotting. As a hemostatic agent, viburnum bark extract can be used for hemorrhoids.

Viburnum bark extract Usually prescribed 20-40 drops, and a decoction - 1 tablespoon 3 times a day. At higher doses, the drug has a general sedative and anticonvulsant effect. Such doses may cause nausea.

In folk medicine A decoction of viburnum bark is used for colds, diarrhea, and sometimes for hysteria, an infusion of flowers is used for coughs, and the fruits are used as a laxative and antipyretic. An infusion of flowers is used externally for various rashes and scrofula, the juice of fresh fruits is used to treat pustular diseases of the facial skin. Under experimental conditions, the antimicrobial effect of viburnum fruits was revealed.

For medicinal purposes They use the bark and fruits of viburnum. The bark is harvested in the spring. Longitudinal and transverse cuts are made on the branches, after which the cut off pieces of bark are easily removed. It is impossible to make circular cuts to the bark: this deprives the parts of the branch located above the cut of nutrition, and it dies. Dry the bark under a shed or in the attic. The fruits are dried in fruit clusters, hanging in bunches under a canopy or in the attic. You can dry them in an oven or in a dryer. The stalks are removed after the fruits have dried.

Viburnum Sargent is one of the beautiful varieties of ornamental varieties of viburnum. Even a single bush in the garden can become a real decoration, especially when the time of flowering comes and delicate inflorescences open on the branches, the white color of which is favorably set off by the bright green lush deciduous crown.

Description of the variety

Sargenta is a large shrub with a powerful spreading crown and a large number of lateral shoots, thanks to which viburnum grows very lush. In summer, due to the dense foliage on numerous branches, the shoots themselves are practically invisible. The leaves are attached to the shoots with long petioles, which distinguishes the variety from the common viburnum, which has shorter petioles. By autumn the foliage takes on a beautiful purple hue.

At the end of May, the plant blooms with large inflorescences about 3 cm in diameter, and the inflorescences are either sterile or bisexual. The former are always only white, while the latter have a creamy tint. The fruits ripen in mid-autumn and are usually quite small and red, although there are exceptions. They are edible and have medicinal properties.

The size of the bush is impressive: adult plants reach a height of up to 4 m, while the diameter of the crown is almost equal to the total height of the viburnum, and the diameter of old branches can reach up to 5 cm at their base. The variety easily tolerates frosty winters without shelter and is able to grow in shaded areas. Grows better in fertile and rich soils.

Viburnum Sargenta is a long-lived perennial and can reach 50 years of age.

Species forms of the variety

There are about 7 varieties of the variety, but the most famous among them are:

Video on how to grow viburnum