Wayfaring-tree - Viburnum lantana
An attractive shrub with large heads of attractive creamy flowers, red, then red and black berries. It has rather rounded, simple toothed leaves.
Will do well on most soils, but is especially good on chalk.
The fragrant flower heads can be seen in spring and early summer.
Perennial.
Fairly frequent in central and southern England but more scattered elsewhere.
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 10 of the 617 tetrads.
Graham Calow
Ullesthorpe Stewardship Farm
14 May 2013
Graham Calow
Ullesthorpe Stewrdship Farm
29 August 2016
steven lewis
Bardon Hill
21 August 2019
Ron.stevens
Ullesthorpe Stewardship Farm
07 May 2017
martindgrimes
Pickworth FP to south
14 May 2019
Melinda Bell
Ibstock,Sence valley
26 June 2019
Melinda Bell
Ibstock,Sence valley
31 May 2020
Graham Calow
Ullesthorpe Stewardship Farm
15 June 2015
seeds
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Species profile
- Common names
- Wayfaring-tree
- Species group:
- flowering plant
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Dipsacales
- Family:
- Adoxaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 48
- First record:
- 14/05/2013 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 18/06/2025 (lemmon, roy)
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David Nicholls
Broughton Astley, Broughton Way
08 June 2020
Saharima Roenisch
Knighton Park
07/05/2017
steven lewis
welby
09 May 2016
Steven Lewis
Welby
09 May 2016
Graham Calow
Ullesthorpe Stewrdship Farm
29 August 2016
David Gould
The Spearwort Fields
23 April 2017
JamieG
Brocks Hill Country Park
25 April 2017
Graham Calow
Ullesthorpe Stewardship Farm
15 June 2015
David Gould
The Spearwort Fields
11 August 2018
flattened fruits
David Nicholls
Broughton Astley, Broughton Way
08 June 2020
Phyllonorycter lantanella
The larva of the moth Phyllonorycter lantanella mines the leaves of Wayfaring-tree and less frequently other Viburnum species such as Guelder-rose or Laurustinus (Viburnum tinus). The larval mine is on the underside of the leaf, causing a strong fold and distorting the leaf, sometimes more than one mine to a leaf.