Cornus walteri

Korean dogwood
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Cornales
Family: Cornaceae
Genus: Cornus
Subgenus: Kraniopsis
Species: C walteri
Binomial name
C. walteri
Wangerin
Synonyms[1]
  • Cornus coreana Wangerin
  • Cornus henryi Hemsl. ex Wangerin
  • Cornus walteri var. confertiflora W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu
  • Cornus walteri var. insignis W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu
  • Cornus yunnanensis H.L.Li
  • Swida coreana (Wangerin) Soják
  • Swida walteri (Wangerin) Soják
  • Swida walteri var. confertiflora (W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu) W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu
  • Swida walteri var. insignis (W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu) W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu
  • Thelycrania coreana (Wangerin) Pojark.

Cornus walteri, also called Walter's dogwood,[2] is a deciduous shrub or small tree 8–16 m tall, native to eastern Asia in Korea and much of China from Liaoning to Yunnan.[3][4]

Cornus walteri has opposite, simple leaves, 5–12 cm long. The flowers are produced in inflorescences 6–8 cm diameter, each flower individually small and whitish. The flowering is in spring, after it leafs out. The fruit is a round, reddish-purple "drupaceous berry", 2.5-3.5 cm diameter.[3][5][6][7][8]

It is closely related to the European common dogwood (C. sanguinea).

Cornus walteri

References

  1. ↑ "Cornus walteri Wangerin". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 8 November 2013 – via The Plant List.
  2. ↑ English Names for Korean Native Plants (PDF). Pocheon: Korea National Arboretum. 2015. p. 421. ISBN 978-89-97450-98-5. Retrieved 22 December 2016 – via Korea Forest Service.
  3. 1 2 Flora of China, v 14 p 214, Cornus walteri
  4. ↑ Flora of China, v 14 p 211, Cornus coreana
  5. ↑ Wangerin, Walther. 1908. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 6(107–112): 99, as both Cornus walteri and Cornus coreana listed separately
  6. ↑ Soják, Jiří. 1960. Novitates Botanicae et Delectus Seminum Horti Botanici Universitatis Carolinae Pragensis. Prague p 10, as Swida coreana
  7. ↑ Fang & W.K.Hu. 1984. Bulletin of Botanical Research. Harbin 4(3): 108 as Swida walteri
  8. ↑ Li, Hui Lin. 1944. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 35:312, as Cornus yunnanensis
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