This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. But look around your neighborhood now – chances are some savvy homeowners have recognized the value of early flowers and have chosen this plant to display its beauty for all who see it to enjoy. For those who wait until reliably warm weather to shop for plants, the flowers of Cornus mas will have already passed. More importantly, cornelian cherry is readily available at garden centers. It’s also not picky about where it grows, performing well in both sandy and clayey soils, even tolerating a bit of shade at the edge of the woods. It’s one of the most winter cold-hardy plants you can buy, thriving even in those northernmost climates where minimum winter temperatures plunge as low as -30☏. It’s these aspects of year-round appeal that helped qualify Cornus mas to become a Cary Award winner – a well-deserved honor (click on ). Few plants in my garden offer so much visual interest in every season. Even in winter the bark on mature stems and trunks exfoliates to create a colorful contrast against the snow. Its fruit, only fully ripening after it falls or is picked off the plant, tastes a lot like a melding of cranberry and sour cherry for centuries traditional European cultures have valued it for preserves and beverages.Fall foliage color is variable depending upon conditions, but most years, its leaves turn a rich wine-red before dropping in October. Hybridizers in Russia have developed some cultivars with exceptionally large fruit, and they’re only recently becoming available in the USA from specialty nurseries.
mas displays clean, dark green leaves (there’s now a yellow-variegated-leaf cultivar, ‘ Variegata’), followed in mid-summer by a profusion of edible berries. Yes, its flowers don’t last long, usually only a week or two, but that’s enough to get my senses tuned to what’s soon to follow: the earliest magnolias, Forsythia, “real” cherry trees and the Early Rhododendrons like Weston’s Pink Diamond and PJM.įinishing its bloom, C. One of the first of the woody plants to bloom in my garden, it signals the beginning of a cascade of color about to begin. tree) is its display of golden-yellow flowers which appear in the earliest spring, just as the days begin to warm. No, despite its name, it’s not a cherry it’s really a dogwood, and the first of this diverse genus to flower every spring.įor me, the real appeal of this plant (which can be grown as a multi-stem shrub or trained to form a 15-20 ft. And few trees or shrubs are more appropriate than the cornelian cherry ( Cornus mas) for ushering-out winter, enticing spring to begin. Oregon State Univ.Every year those long-awaited first flowers of spring always arouse my senses and give birth to a primal appreciation of the renewal of life. officinalis reportedly has rusty patches of down in the axils of the veins. Additionally, the lower leaf surface of C. mas, flowers earlier, has longer pedicels (twice as long as bracts), ripens fruit later, and its exfoliating bark may be more colorful. officinalis (Japanese Cornel Dogwood), which, in comparison to C. Hardy to USDA Zone 4 Native to central and southern Europe and western Asia.Ī similar species is C. Prefers rich, well-drained soil, but adaptable to different soil types. Fruit an oblong drupe 1.6 cm long, bright cherry red, in mid-summer. Flowers open in early spring (too early?) before leaves appear, yellow, in short stalked umbels (20 mm in diam.) enclosed in 4 bracts before opening, each flower 1.5 mm in width. Sometimes reddish fall color, but generally poor with leaves falling off green.
Leaves opposite, simple, ovate to elliptic, 5-10 cm long, 3-5 pairs of veins, dark green above.
Deciduous multistemed shrub or small tree, 20-25 ft ( 6-8m) high, spreading to 15 ft (4.5 m), oval-round outline, slender stems.
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