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Cornus kousa is a small deciduous tree 8–12 m (26–39 ft) tall, in the flowering plant family Cornaceae. Common names include kousa, kousa dogwood, [2] Chinese dogwood, [3] [4] Korean dogwood, [4] [5] [6] and Japanese dogwood. [2] [4] Synonyms are Benthamia kousa and Cynoxylon kousa. [7] It is a plant native to East Asia including Korea ...
The fruits of all dogwood species are drupes with one or two seeds, often brightly colorful. The drupes of species in the subgenus Cornus are edible. Many are without much flavor. Cornus kousa and Cornus mas are sold commercially as edible fruit trees. The fruits of Cornus kousa have a
Korean dogwood is a common name for several dogwoods that occur in Korea, and may refer to: Cornus coreana , rarely cultivated as an ornamental plant Cornus kousa , a widely cultivated ornamental plant
stiff cornel dogwood Cornaceae (dogwood family) Cornus drummondii: roughleaf dogwood Cornaceae (dogwood family) Cornus florida: flowering dogwood Cornaceae (dogwood family) 491 Cornus kousa: Kousa dogwood Cornaceae (dogwood family) Cornus mas: cornelian dogwood Cornaceae (dogwood family) Cornus nuttallii: western flowering dogwood; Pacific ...
Kousa may refer to: Kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa) kousa or kōsa, known as Asian Dust; Kōsa (also known as Honganji Kennyo), the leader of Ishiyama Hongan-ji and Ikkō-Ikki rebels. Kousa or kusa, a type of squash (fruit) in the Levant, similar to the zucchini
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.
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 ...
The similar Kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa), native to Asia, flowers about a month later. The fruit is a cluster of two to ten separate drupes , (fused in Cornus kousa ), each 10–15 mm (0.39–0.59 in) long and about 8 mm (0.31 in) wide, which ripen in the late summer and the early fall to a bright red, or occasionally yellow with a rosy blush.