Viburnum tinus, the laurustinus, laurustine or laurestine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Adoxaceae, native to the Mediterranean area of Europe and North Africa.

The flowers are small, white or light pink, produced from reddish-pink buds in dense cymes 5–10 cm diameter in the winter.

The fragrant flowers (some consider the fragrance offensive, especially after rain when it is very strong) are bisexual (monoecious — having both male and female parts on one plant) and pentamerous.

A 2020 study of the fruit's metallic blue hue revealed microscopic globules of fat to be the cause, an example of structural color,[2] which is unusual in plants.

[3] Native to the Mediterranean region, Viburnum tinus prefers shady, moist areas.

The cultivars 'Eve Price',[6] 'French White'[7] and 'Gwenllian'[8] have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.