Cornus × slavinii
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Credits
Martin Deasy, Dan Crowley, Jack Aldridge & Răzvan Chişu (2026)
Recommended citation
Deasy, M., Crowley, D., Aldridge, J. & Chişu, R. (2026), 'Cornus × slavinii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Other taxa in genus
- Cornus alba
- Cornus alternifolia
- Cornus amomum
- Cornus × arnoldiana
- Cornus asperifolia
- Cornus bretschneideri
- Cornus californica
- Cornus canadensis
- Cornus capitata
- Cornus chinensis
- Cornus controversa
- Cornus coreana
- Cornus darvasica
- Cornus disciflora
- Cornus drummondii
- Cornus × dunbarii
- Cornus elliptica
- Cornus × elwinortonii
- Cornus excelsa
- Cornus eydeana
- Cornus florida
- Cornus florida Cultivars A-G
- Cornus florida Cultivars H-M
- Cornus florida Cultivars N-R
- Cornus florida Cultivars S-Z
- Cornus foemina
- Cornus glabrata
- Cornus × haddenii
- Cornus hemsleyi
- Cornus hongkongensis
- Cornus hongkongensis hybrids
- Cornus × horseyi
- Cornus iberica
- Cornus kousa
- Cornus kousa Cultivars A-D
- Cornus kousa Cultivars E-I
- Cornus kousa Cultivars J-L
- Cornus kousa Cultivars M-R
- Cornus kousa Cultivars S-Z
- Cornus macrophylla
- Cornus mas
- Cornus mas Cultivars A-G
- Cornus mas Cultivars H-M
- Cornus mas Cultivars N-R
- Cornus mas Cultivars S-Z
- Cornus 'Mountain Moon'
- Cornus multinervosa
- Cornus nuttallii
- Cornus obliqua
- Cornus oblonga
- Cornus officinalis
- Cornus poliophylla
- Cornus 'Pumila'
- Cornus quinquenervis
- Cornus racemosa
- Cornus rugosa
- Cornus × rutgersensis
- Cornus sanguinea
- Cornus scabrida
- Cornus sericea
- Cornus sessilis
- Cornus suecica
- Cornus sunhangii
- Cornus × transamericana
- Cornus unalaschkensis
- Cornus walteri
- Cornus wardiana
- Cornus wilsoniana
Tall deciduous shrub; stems upright, branchlets greenish at first, turning purple later, with small lenticels. Leaves 6–12 × 4–7 cm, chartaceous, ovate to broadly ovate, base rounded, upper surface dark green, with scattered trichomes, lower surface glaucous green, also with scattered trichomes, margins entire. Inflorescences corymbose, pubescent; bracts minute, not petal-like. Fruits subglobose to ovoid, 0.6–0.8 cm diameter, blue to white at maturity, with one stone; stone 0.5 cm long, slightly compressed, apex shortly pointed, sometimes faintly ribbed. Flowering in June, fruiting from July. (Rehder 1922).
Distribution Canada Ontario, Prince Edward Island United States Maine, New York, Wisconsin
Habitat As for its parents where they overlap.
USDA Hardiness Zone 3-7
RHS Hardiness Rating H6
Conservation status Not evaluated (NE)
Intermediate between the parent species, closer to Cornus sericea in habit, but more upright; first noticed in Seneca Park, Rochester, New York, near the gorge of the Genesee River (Rehder 1910; Bean 1976). The similarity in name has led to confusion with C. racemosa ‘Slavin’s Dwarf’ (a different plant), and incorrect identification of the hybrid parentage (see e.g. Gayraud 2013).