From history to medicine
Marcottage involves encouraging a branch, attached to the parent plant, to take root when in contact with the soil.
In addition to its ornamental value, the viburnum opulus has many medicinal properties.
In the past, viburnum opulus wood was used to make pipe stems.
Long before that, as early as the Mesolithic, people used its wood to craft arrows.
Did you know ?
The wood of viburnum opulus was used as early as the Mesolithic to make arrows!
