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Cornus amomum is a deciduous shrub growing to 5 m (16 + 1 ⁄ 2 ft) tall. The leaves are opposite, up to 10 cm (4 in) long and 7 cm (2 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) broad, oval with an acute apex. The flowers are produced in cymes. The fruit is a small blue drupe.
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]
An older name of the dogwood in English is whipple-tree, occurring in a list of trees (as whipultre) in Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales. [8] This name is cognate with the Middle Low German wipel-bom "cornel", Dutch wepe, weype "cornel" (the wh-in Chaucer is unetymological, the word would have been Middle English wipel).
This is a list of woods, ... Dogwood (Cornus spp.) Flowering dogwood ... Northern silky oak (Cardwellia sublimis) American sycamore ...
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
Cornus sericea, the red osier or red-osier dogwood, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Cornaceae, native to much of North America. It has sometimes been considered a synonym of the Asian species Cornus alba .
These communities in Oklahoma with at least 5,000 residents grew the fastest between July 2022 and July 2023, according to the latest census data. State of growth: 10 Oklahoma cities where ...
This is a list of plants organized by their common names. However, the common names of plants often vary from region to region, which is why most plant encyclopedias refer to plants using their scientific names , in other words using binomials or "Latin" names.