Viburnum Pollination: Plant Compatible Varieties for Best Fruit Set

Although hollies are better-known for berries, viburnum shrubs can also have striking fall fruit.

Two best fruiting viburnums: tea viburnum (Viburnum setigerum) and Linden viburnum (Viburnum dilatatum).

As with hollies, good pollination produces best fruiting. Best way to ensure fruit set: plant another variety of same viburnum species nearby. 'Michael Dodge', 'Mt. Airy', 'Asian Beauty' are good Linden viburnum varieties.

Viburnum plicatum, Japanese snowball viburnum, is non-fruiting with sterile rounded flowers.

Viburnum plicatum var. tomentosum, Doublefile viburnum, has flat-topped flowers and can set fruit with varieties like 'Shasta', 'Summer Snowflake', 'Mariesii' nearby.