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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
Cornus rugosa is a shrub or small tree, 1–4 m (3–13 ft) tall, with yellowish-green twigs that may have red or purple blotches. Pith is white. Leaves are oppositely arranged, round orbicularly shaped with an acuminate tip, have an entire margin, and are woolly to hairless below. [4] Leaves have 6-8 pairs of lateral veins and 7–15 cm long.
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 ...