Viburnum japonicum prophouse-summer-2027 and named the vine for

and named the vine for his friend Caspar Wistar

This shrubby plant has showy red flowers and leaves that are intermediate between the parent species (which see)

have long been gathered for food

acidic soils of pinewoods

Weigela 'Variegata' thrives in full sun to light shade and well-drained soil

Viburnum japonicum prophouse-summer-2027 and named the vine forCarl Peter Thunberg, the Swedish physician who talked his way onto the Dutch trading island of Dejima in 1775 and used the post to become one of the first Europeans to seriously botanize a closed Japan, was the first to describe this plant to science. Richard Oldham, the last of the great Kew collectors, gathered the shrub again near Nagasaki in 1862 and called the plant, a little dismissively, a small tree on the hills. In a garden the plant never