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Hi John,</div>
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I'm finding the way overplanted Viburnum x rhytidophylloides to be more invasive than the much longer leaved lookalike <span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">V. rhytidophyllym.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">I've now collected <span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Viburnum x rhytidophylloides from D.C., Maryland (Montgomery County), and City of Alexandria
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Both taxa, however, are still very rare, naturalized escapes - at least in the D.C. region at this point.
(I've got only one collection of <span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">V. rhytidophyllym from the D.C. region - in the City of Alexandria.)</span></span></span></div>
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Still, I list <span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">V. rhytidophyllym in the Non-Native Invasive Plants of the City of Alexandria, Virginia list and will definitely add <span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Viburnum
x rhytidophylloides to the next revision, along with Hydrangea quercifolia, which I've documented as invasive in Arlington County.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">I also plan on including <span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Viburnum
x rhytidophylloides in my next Noteworthy Collections paper.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">All the best,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Rod</span></span></div>
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From: MAIPC <maipc-bounces@lists.maipc.org> On Behalf Of John Nystedt
<div>Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2022 11:09 AM</div>
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<div>Subject: [MAIPC] Viburnum rhytidophylloides</div>
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<div>Is Viburnum rhytidophylloides, commonly sold as the cultivar Allegheny viburnum, on invasive lists?<br>
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<div>Anecdotal?</div>
<div>Lookalike to V rhytidophyllym, leatherleaf viburnum, which IS an invasive.</div>
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<div>Thanks in advance.</div>
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John Nystedt<br>
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