Viburnum propinquum Check with George That natural rot-resistance comes from

That natural rot-resistance comes from the same volatile terpenoids that give the crushed foliage a sweet

Let the low limbs cascade over a low wall

In the garden the vine wants something to climb or a structure to lean against

now reduced to a scattered handful of sites in Texas

is the wild Yunnan parent of the hardy williamsii hybrids

Viburnum propinquum Check with George That natural rot-resistance comes fromA viburnum grown for the leaves rather than the flowers, and one of the rarest evergreens in the American nursery trade. Viburnum propinquum was described by the botanist William Hemsley in 1888 from the temperate forests of China, and the plant ranges through central and southern China, Taiwan, and north to Luzon in the Philippines. The species name comes from the Latin propinquus, meaning near or akin, a botanist's nod to the plant's close kinship