quick, what flower it this?
i have photographed viburnum many times. but always in winter. it is one one of the few plants that offers me translucent red berries all winter long. i love how the snow piles up on top of the berry drupes, looking very much like a beanie hat. we call viburnum highbush cranberry, even thought it is not a true cranberry at all. it is native however. i pass this particular viburnum at least once a week. so, i was a bit stunned today when i saw these flowers. if i did not know that his particular bush was indeed viburnum, i would have assumed those flowers were hydrangea flowers. i love that i can still be stopped in my tracks with wonder, after all these years of doing STILL.
ameican highbush cranberry (either Viburnum opulus var. americanum or Viburnum trilobum)
You fooled me, I, too, thought it was an oak leaf hydrangea
I thought it was a hobble bush. Close, but no kewpie doll!