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Mukoro Mbosi

Cornus volkensii

Family
Cornaceae (Corn family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
South Sudan to S. Trop. Africa
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Cornus volkensii is a species of tree in the family Cornaceae native to montane forests of eastern Africa, from South Sudan and Kenya south to Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

Where it grows

Cornus volkensii is found in the mountains of eastern Africa, from South Sudan and Kenya through Uganda, the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, and Malawi to Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

Other Cornus plants

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 volkensii 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.

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