Guelder-rose - Viburnum opulus

Shrub to 4 metres, with angled young twigs. Flowers white, in broad flat topped clusters 4.5 to 10.5 cm across, inner florets fertile 4 to 7 mm surrounded by a few large sterile flowers 15 to 20 mm. Berry is shiny red when ripe.

Hedgerows and woodland on damp soils.

June and July.

Deciduous.

Frequent throughout most of Britain, less common in Scotland.

Quite common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 308 of the 617 tetrads.