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Offline Jakesnyder

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Can anyone verify if this is viburnum or not?
« on: January 23, 2020, 05:40:04 pm »
It might be hard to tell from the pictures. They do have a pithy or hollow center but do seem really strong.

Offline Azmdted

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Re: Can anyone verify if this is viburnum or not?
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2020, 05:45:49 pm »
Take this with a grain of salt, but I use an app called Picture This, which I really like. I snapped your last pic and it came back and said it was Creambush.

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Re: Can anyone verify if this is viburnum or not?
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2020, 07:33:55 pm »
Yea I dont think thats what it is. I looked up cream bush and it said it's also known as ocean spray. Which doesnt grow around here. I'm not very technologically advanced. I actually have that app but it was wanting me to pay a monthly fee.

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Re: Can anyone verify if this is viburnum or not?
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2020, 08:35:57 pm »
Looks like a spirea. Viburnum has opposite leaves(buds on stems also)
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Re: Can anyone verify if this is viburnum or not?
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2020, 08:53:23 pm »
Is it any good for arrows?

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Re: Can anyone verify if this is viburnum or not?
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2020, 07:26:11 am »
Looks to me like it would, straight shoot without side branches. Where do you live? This looks like a Japanese spirea but there are a couple of American versions. Cut some and bind it together to dry and give it a try.
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Re: Can anyone verify if this is viburnum or not?
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2020, 07:59:42 am »
South Western PA.

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« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2020, 11:02:07 am »
Google spirea and see if you get a match. We have lots of the Japanese spirea here. It is quite invasive but I think it would make good arrows. I know the native spireas will make an arrow so the Japanese variety surely will.
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Re: Can anyone verify if this is viburnum or not?
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2020, 11:26:10 am »
The first two pictures look a lot like Ocean Spray but the flower head is definitely not. Is there a chance you snapped a pic of the wrong flower head?

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« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2020, 03:13:06 pm »
DC, ocean spray is a western plant I believe. Jake lives in SW Penn.
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Re: Can anyone verify if this is viburnum or not?
« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2020, 07:31:55 pm »
You're right :D

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Re: Can anyone verify if this is viburnum or not?
« Reply #11 on: January 24, 2020, 09:38:46 pm »
Japanese spirea has pink flowers if you saw these in bloom and is quite invasive.
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!    Pat Brennan  Brevard, NC