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Cornus capitata
Also called Bentham's Dogwood, Evergreen Dogwood
Bentham's cornel is an evergreen dogwood tree from the Himalayas and southern China, grown for its white summer bracts and red strawberry-like fruit. It thrives in mild climates with well-drained soil and moderate water.
Cornus capitata is an Asian species of dogwood known by the common names Bentham's cornel, evergreen dogwood, Himalayan flowering dogwood, and Himalayan strawberry-tree.
It is native to the low-elevation woodlands of the Himalayas in China, India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bhutan. It is naturalized in parts of Australia and New Zealand, but is also grown elsewhere as an ornamental.
Red-Barked Dogwood · Alternateleaf dogwood · Canadian Bunchberry · Giant dogwood · Flowering dogwood · Kousa dogwood · Cornelian-cherry · Pacific dogwood · Asiatic dogwood · Bloodtwig dogwood · Redosier dogwood · Western cordilleran bunchberry
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cornus capitata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
