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Dogwoods are valued by gardeners for their spring flowers, summer foliage, fruit and leaf color. [5] Each species of dogwood has their own unique look, Cornus amomum is a shrub which can be used in places of excess runoff or areas of water collection in a landscape as it thrives in moist to wet soil conditions. The shrub provides beautiful ...
Cornus obliqua, the blue-fruited dogwood, silky dogwood, or pale dogwood, is a flowering shrub of eastern North America in the dogwood family, Cornaceae. [1] [2] [3] It is sometimes considered a subspecies of Cornus amomum, which is also known as silky dogwood. [4] [5] It was first described in 1820 by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque. [6]
Silky dogwood is a common name for two species of shrubs, formerly treated as a single species: Cornus amomum , a more southerly species found in the eastern U.S. Cornus obliqua , a more northerly species found in the eastern U.S. and Canada
Species include the common dogwood Cornus sanguinea of Eurasia, the widely cultivated flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) of eastern North America, the Pacific dogwood Cornus nuttallii of western North America, the Kousa dogwood Cornus kousa of eastern Asia, and two low-growing boreal species, the Canadian and Eurasian dwarf cornels (or ...
Silky oak (Grevillea robusta) Silver wattle (Acacia dealbata) Sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum) Spanish-cedar (Cedrela odorata) Spanish elm (Cordia alliodora) Tamboti (Spirostachys africana) Teak (Tectona grandis) Philippine teak (Tectona philippinensis) Thailand rosewood (Dalbergia cochinchinensis) Tupelo (Nyssa spp.) Black tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica)
Under ideal conditions, onlookers can count as many as 100 shooting stars per hour, but hourly rates will not be quite as high this year as a nearly full moon will shine bright on the night of Aug ...
The Cornaceae are a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants in the order Cornales.The family contains approximately 85 species in two genera, [1] Alangium and Cornus.They are mostly trees and shrubs, which may be deciduous or evergreen, although a few species are perennial herbs.
South bracing for storms. Areas of rain, fog and thunderstorms are likely from northeastern Texas to the mid-Mississippi Valley and parts of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and other states in ...