Cornus baileyi
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Cornus baileyi' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Synonyms
- Swida baileyi (Coult. & Evans) Rydb.
- C. stolonifera var. baileyi (Coult. & Evans) Drescher
- C. stolonifera f. baileyi (Coult. & Evans) Rickett
Other taxa in genus
- Cornus alba
- Cornus alternifolia
- Cornus amomum
- Cornus asperifolia
- Cornus australis
- Cornus capitata
- Cornus chinensis
- Cornus controversa
- Cornus × dunbarii
- Cornus elliptica
- Cornus florida
- Cornus glabrata
- Cornus hemsleyi
- Cornus hessei
- Cornus hongkongensis
- Cornus × horseyi
- Cornus kousa
- Cornus macrophylla
- Cornus mas
- Cornus monbeigii
- Cornus nuttallii
- Cornus occidentalis
- Cornus paucinervis
- Cornus racemosa
- Cornus rugosa
- Cornus sanguinea
- Cornus schindleri
- Cornus sessilis
- Cornus stolonifera
- Cornus wilsoniana
An erect, deciduous shrub up to 10 ft high, with downy shoots turning reddish brown by winter. Leaves ovate or lanceolate, slender-pointed, rounded at the base; 2 to 5 in. long, 1 to 21⁄2 in. wide; with minute flattened hairs above, and, when young, with a dense covering of woolly down as well as flattened hairs beneath; stalks slender, 1⁄2 to 3⁄4 in. long. Flowers small, in woolly-stalked cymcS’ 1 to 2 in. across. Fruit white, 1⁄3 in. across.
Native of eastern N. America; introduced in 1892. It has been much confused with C. stolonifera, from which it differs in the shoots and lower surface of the leaves being distinctly woolly, and in not being stoloniferous; the bark also is duller and browner. It is usually found on sandy shores, and is recommended for light soils.