What is Laurustinus?

Laurustinus is a large, evergreen shrub that is useful as a device for a screen or collateral. It produces berries or flowers for most of the year, making it a good race that it provides throughout the year. The plant is connected to the honeysuckle. Its scientific name is viburnum tinus . Plants came from the Pyrenees area in Spain and in the Mediterranean Basin. In England and other parts of Europe, they have been grown for several centuries and are most often grown in the US along the west coast of California and Oregon. There is also a slightly smaller variety of this shrub called Compactus or Spring Bouquet. Evergreen leaves are glossy, dark green and oval shape. They have wavy edges of aprominent veins. The buds are round and grow in large clusters. These clusters can look like pink flowers, giving the visual interest of plants throughout the winter.

buds open and produce flowers early in the spring and these flowersThey usually stay on the plant throughout the spring. Flowers are usually pinkish white and honey scent, although at the end of the flowering period they can develop a more unpleasant scent that plants use to attract flies that pollute it. Once the flowering time ends, brilliant, dark blue, metal berries appear on the bushes and often remain until the end of the fall.

Laurustinus grows best in full sun or partial shadow. The plant can adapt well to poor soils, but prefers sandy clay or soil with some clay that are neutral. Laurustinus has normal irrigation needs. The bushes are resistant to 10 ° F (-12.2 ° C) and are not doing well in a very hot climate.

Herbal medicine practicing sometimes uses tincture viburnum tinus as a treatment for Hodgepodge of Maladies, including migraine, deafness and depression. However, there is no scientific evidence to support these uses. On the other hand, the berries of the plant are somewhat poisonous and ifDou consumed, causing the stomach.