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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: Jakesnyder on January 23, 2020, 05:40:04 pm

Title: Can anyone verify if this is viburnum or not?
Post by: Jakesnyder 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.

Title: Re: Can anyone verify if this is viburnum or not?
Post by: Azmdted 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.

Title: Re: Can anyone verify if this is viburnum or not?
Post by: Jakesnyder 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.

Title: Re: Can anyone verify if this is viburnum or not?
Post by: Pat B on January 23, 2020, 08:35:57 pm

Looks like a spirea. Viburnum has opposite leaves(buds on stems also)

Title: Re: Can anyone verify if this is viburnum or not?
Post by: Jakesnyder on January 23, 2020, 08:53:23 pm

Is it any good for arrows?

Title: Re: Can anyone verify if this is viburnum or not?
Post by: Pat B 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.

Title: Re: Can anyone verify if this is viburnum or not?
Post by: Jakesnyder on January 24, 2020, 07:59:42 am

South Western PA.

Title: Re: Can anyone verify if this is viburnum or not?
Post by: Pat B 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.

Title: Re: Can anyone verify if this is viburnum or not?
Post by: DC 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?

Title: Re: Can anyone verify if this is viburnum or not?
Post by: Pat B on January 24, 2020, 03:13:06 pm

DC, ocean spray is a western plant I believe. Jake lives in SW Penn.

Title: Re: Can anyone verify if this is viburnum or not?
Post by: DC on January 24, 2020, 07:31:55 pm

You're right :D

Title: Re: Can anyone verify if this is viburnum or not?
Post by: Pat B on January 24, 2020, 09:38:46 pm

Japanese spirea has pink flowers if you saw these in bloom and is quite invasive.