Appearance
The flowers are creamy white, 9 mm diameter; the calyx is urn-shaped, five-toothed, persistent; the corolla is five-lobed, with rounded lobes, imbricate in bud; the five stamens alternate with the corolla lobes, the filaments slender, the anthers pale yellow, oblong, two-celled, the cells opening longitudinally; the ovary is inferior, one-celled, with a thick, pale green style and a flat stigma and a single ovule. The flowers are borne in flat-topped cymes 10 cm in diameter in mid to late spring. The fruit is a drupe 1 cm long, dark blue-black with glaucous bloom, hangs until winter, becomes edible after being frosted, then eaten by birds; the stone is flat and even, broadly oval. Wherever it lives, black haw prefers sunny woodland with well-drained soil and adequate water.
Status
It is threatened in Connecticut.Food
The Meskwaki eat the fruit raw and also cook them into a jam.Uses
It has both value in the pleasure garden, providing good fall color and early winter provender for birds, and medicinal properties.It has hybridized with ''Viburnum lentago'' in cultivation to give the garden hybrid ''Viburnum'' × ''jackii''.
The wood is brown tinged with red; heavy, hard, close-grained with a density of 0.8332.
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