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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 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.
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 ...
Cornaceae (dogwood family) Cornus kousa: Kousa dogwood Cornaceae (dogwood family) Cornus mas: cornelian dogwood Cornaceae (dogwood family) Cornus nuttallii: western flowering dogwood; Pacific flowering dogwood Cornaceae (dogwood family) Cornus racemosa: grey dogwood Cornaceae (dogwood family) Cornus sanguinea: common dogwood Cornaceae (dogwood ...
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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
Cornus alternifolia is a species of flowering plant in the dogwood family Cornaceae, native to eastern North America, from Newfoundland west to southern Manitoba and Minnesota, and south to northern Florida and Mississippi. It is rare in the southern United States. [2] It is commonly known as green osier, [3] alternate-leaved dogwood, [4] and ...
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 ...