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California City is a city located in northern Antelope Valley in Kern County, California, United States. It is 100 miles (160 km) north of the city of Los Angeles , and the population was 14,973 at the 2020 census .
Cornus alba, the red-barked, white or Siberian dogwood, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cornaceae, native to Siberia, northern China and Korea.It is a large deciduous surculose (suckering) shrub that can be grown as a small tree.
California law makes no distinction between "city" and "town", and municipalities may use either term in their official names. [6] They can be organized as either a charter municipality, governed by its own charter, or a general-law municipality (or "code city"), governed by state statute.
Cornus glabrata is a species of dogwood native to California and Oregon and known by the common names brown dogwood, smooth dogwood, and western cornel. This is a large shrub or thicket-forming bush with bright green leaves which turn red in fall. It bears plentiful clusters of fuzzy white flowers and bluish-white berries.
The term "dogwood winter", in colloquial use in the American Southeast, especially Appalachia, [38] is sometimes used to describe a cold snap in spring, presumably because farmers believed it was not safe to plant their crops until after the dogwoods blossomed. [39] Anne Morrow Lindbergh gives a vivid description of the dogwood tree in her poem ...
Cornus nuttallii, the Pacific dogwood, [1] [2] western dogwood, [3] or mountain dogwood, [2] is a species of dogwood tree native to western North America. The tree's name used by Hul'q'umi'num' -speaking nations is Kwi’txulhp .
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It is resistant to the dogwood anthracnose disease, caused by the fungus Discula destructiva, unlike C. florida, which is very susceptible and commonly killed by it; for this reason, C. kousa is being widely planted as an ornamental tree in areas affected by the disease. [8] Fall foliage is a showy red color.