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Cornus hemsleyi Schneid. & Wanger.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Cornus hemsleyi' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/cornus/cornus-hemsleyi/). Accessed 2024-11-10.

Genus

Synonyms

  • Swida hemsleyi (Schneid. & Wanger.) Sojak

Glossary

apex
(pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
appressed
Lying flat against an object.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
globose
globularSpherical or globe-shaped.
midrib
midveinCentral and principal vein in a leaf.
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Cornus hemsleyi' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/cornus/cornus-hemsleyi/). Accessed 2024-11-10.

A deciduous shrub up to 12 ft high or sometimes a small tree twice as tall; young shoots downy, becoming glabrous and red the second year. Leaves roundish-ovate; 2 to 3 in. long, 1 to 2 in. wide; rounded or slightly heart-shaped at the base, tapered abruptly at the apex to a short slender point; upper surface furnished with short stiff hairs, the lower one greyish white and covered with appressed hairs; midrib and veins darkened with rusty brown down; veins in six to eight pairs; stalk downy like the midrib, 14 to 12 in. long. Flowers small, white with blue anthers, in corymbs 2 to 3 in. across. Fruit globose, blue-black, 316 in. wide.

Native of Hupeh, Szechwan, and other provinces of China. It is one of a crowd of similar cornels with small white flowers. The dark down on the midrib and veins is distinctive. Wilson found a tree 25 ft high with a trunk 1 ft in diameter. Flowers in July.