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Cornus florida, the flowering dogwood, is a species of flowering tree in the family Cornaceae native to eastern North America and northern Mexico. An endemic population once spanned from southernmost coastal Maine south to northern Florida and west to the Mississippi River. [ 4 ]
The name "dog-tree" entered the English vocabulary before 1548, becoming "dogwood" by 1614. Once the name dogwood was affixed to this kind of tree, it soon acquired a secondary name as the hound's tree, while the fruits came to be known as "dogberries" or "houndberries" (the latter a name also for the berries of black nightshade , alluding to ...
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Jacksonia scoparia, commonly known as dogwood or winged broom-pea, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland and eastern New South Wales. It is a shrub or small tree with angled or winged branchlets, leaves usually reduced to scales, cream-coloured to orange-yellow flowers and oblong, hairy pods .
The flowers commonly bloom twice per season, once in the spring and again in late summer or early fall. [5] [3] Appearing in September or October, the fruit is a compound pink-red or orange drupe about 1–1.5 cm (1 ⁄ 2 – 1 ⁄ 2 in) long. They are produced in clusters containing 20–40 drupelets, each of which contains two seeds.
Cornus mas, "male" cornel, was named so to distinguish it from the true dogberry, the "female" cornel, Cornus sanguinea, and so it appears in John Gerard's Herbal: . This is Cornus mas Theophrasti, or Theophrastus his male Cornell tree; for he ſetteth downe two ſortes of Cornell trees, the male and the female: he maketh the wood of the male to bee ſound as in this Cornell tree; which we ...