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Cornus excelsa is a species of flowering plant in the dogwood genus (Cornus). It is native to mountain forests of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras.
Cornus excelsa is found in the mountains of Mexico and northern Central America, including the Sierra Madre Oriental, southern Sierra Madre Occidental, Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, Sierra Madre de Oaxaca, Sierra Madre del Sur, and Chiapas Highlands of Mexico, the Sierra Madre de Chiapas of Mexico and Guatemala, and the Guatemalan Highlands of Guatemala and Honduras.
Red-Barked Dogwood · Alternateleaf dogwood · Silky dogwood · Arnold's Dogwood · Toughleaf dogwood · Canadian Bunchberry · Bentham's cornel · Giant dogwood · Cornus darvasica · Cornus disciflora · Roughleaf dogwood · Cornus elliptica
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cornus excelsa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
