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Viburnum dentatum Caprifoliaceae (Honeysuckle) Family  Arrowwood is also known as Southern Arrowwood and Arrowwood Viburnum. Plant is a much-branched shrub with many shoots from base, or sometimes a small tree, with showy clusters of white flowers and blue-black fruit. Preferred habitat is open areas and at borders of forest under story. Distribution is throughout the Escambia region. Leaves are opposite, ovate or rounded, pointed at the tip, blunt of notched at base, straight sunken side veins ending in large teeth. Leaf stalks are long, slender, dull green and nearly hairless above, paler and hairy beneath. Leaf turns shiny red in autumn. Flowers are in branched, upright long-stalked clusters of numerous flowers each. Flowers occur in late spring and early summer. Fruit is a rounded or elliptical drupe, blue-black, juicy with a large flattened stone; matures in late summer and autumn. Arrowwood is a common shrub varying in leaf shape, size and hairiness, occasionally becoming a small tree. Native Americans used the straight young branches as arrow shafts; hence the common name. Arrowwood fruit is eaten by birds.  Arrowwood Fruit
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