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Cornus sericea is a popular ornamental shrub that is often planted for the red coloring of its twigs in the dormant season. The cultivars 'Bud's Yellow', [ 11 ] 'Flaviramea' [ 12 ] with lime green stems, and 'Hedgerows Gold' [ 13 ] (variegated foliage) have gained the Royal Horticultural Society 's Award of Garden Merit (confirmed in 2017).
Members of the family usually have opposite or alternate simple leaves, four- or five-parted flowers clustered in inflorescences or pseudanthia, and drupaceous fruits. [2] The family is primarily distributed in northern temperate regions and tropical Asia. [3] In northern temperate areas, Cornaceae are well known from the dogwoods Cornus.
Cornus mas Cornus florida in spring Cornus drummondii in flower Mature and immature flowers of Cornus canadensis, Bonnechere Provincial Park, Ontario Cornus canadensis fruit Spring budding Cornus is a genus of about 30–60 species [ Note 1 ] of woody plants in the family Cornaceae , commonly known as dogwoods or cornels , which can generally ...
The flowering dogwood is usually included in the dogwood genus Cornus as Cornus florida L., although it is sometimes treated in a separate genus as Benthamidia florida (L.) Spach. Less common names for C. florida include American dogwood, Florida dogwood, Indian arrowwood, Cornelian tree, white cornel, white dogwood, false box, and false boxwood.
By extension, the name was also applied by the colonial European hunters, traders, and settlers to various shrubs of which the bark or leaves are used in the mixture, [3] most often bearberry (Arctostaphylos spp.) [4] and to lesser degree, the medicinal plants red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea), silky cornel (Cornus amomum), Canadian bunchberry ...
Botrytis leaf and petal blight Botrytis cinerea Botryotinia fuckeliana [teleomorph] Bud and twig blight Pycnostysanus azaleae = Briosia azaleae. Cercospora leaf spot Pseudocercospora handelii = Cercospora handelii. Chrysomyxa leaf rust Chrysomyxa ledi var. rhododendri Chrysomyxa piperiana Chrysomyxa roanensis. Clitocybe root rot (mushroom root rot)
Cornaceae (dogwood family) 491 Cornus kousa: Kousa dogwood Cornaceae (dogwood family) Cornus mas: cornelian dogwood Cornaceae (dogwood family) Cornus nuttallii: western flowering dogwood; Pacific flowering dogwood Cornaceae (dogwood family) 492 Cornus racemosa: gray dogwood Cornaceae (dogwood family) Cornus sanguinea: common dogwood Cornaceae ...
Cornus sanguinea stems in winter.. It is a medium to large deciduous shrub, growing 2–6 metres (7–20 ft) tall, with dark greenish-brown branches and twigs.The leaves are opposite, 4–8 centimetres (2–3 in) long and 2–4 centimetres (0.8–1.6 in) broad, with an ovate to oblong shape and an entire margin; they are green above, slightly paler below, and rough with short stiff pubescence.