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Cornus mas
Also called Cornelian cherry dogwood, Dogwood, European cornel, Sorbet, Cornejo Macho, Kierelter
Cornelian cherry is a deciduous shrub or small tree, 5 to 12 m tall, that flowers with small yellow clusters in late winter before its leaves appear and bears edible red fruit. It is hardy and tolerant of many soils, and grows well in full sun or part shade.
Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas), also known as the European cornel, is a species of shrub or small tree in the dogwood family Cornaceae native to Western Europe, Southern Europe, and Southwestern Asia.
The shrub was not native to the British Isles. William Turner had only heard of the plant in 1548, but by 1551 he had heard of one at Hampton Court Palace. Gerard said it was to be found in the gardens "of such as love rare and dainty plants".
The appreciation of the early acid-yellow flowers is largely a 20th-century development.
Red-Barked Dogwood · Alternateleaf dogwood · Canadian Bunchberry · Bentham's cornel · Giant dogwood · Flowering dogwood · Kousa dogwood · Pacific dogwood · Asiatic dogwood · Bloodtwig dogwood · Redosier dogwood · Western cordilleran bunchberry
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cornus mas 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.
