Cornus bretschneideri L.Henry

Species

Angiosperms > Cornales > Cornaceae > Cornus

Characteristics

Shrubs or small trees, 1–6 m tall. Bark purplish red. Young branches reddish, terete, sparsely pubescent with grayish white trichomes; old branches light yellow, glabrous, with or without whitish elliptic lenticels. Leaves opposite; leaf blade ovate, elliptic-ovate, or oblong, 5–8.5 × 2.5–6 cm, papery, abaxially grayish white or glaucous, densely papillose and pubescent with appressed white trichomes or occasionally with dense yellowish brown curly trichomes, lateral veins 5 or 6(or 7), with soft, long white trichomes in axils, smaller veins inconspicuous, base broadly cuneate to rounded, apex cuspidate to acuminate. Corymbose cymes 4.5–6 cm wide, pubescent with grayish white trichomes, deciduous short trichomes, or rarely with dense curly trichomes. Pedicels 1.5–6 mm. Flowers white, 5.5–7 mm in diam. Calyx teeth sharply triangular, 0.2–0.3 mm, equal to or slightly longer than disk. Petals ligulate to ovate, 3–4 × 1.4–1.8 mm. Stamens longer than petals; anthers yellowish white, ovate-oblong. Style cylindrical, 2.3–2.6 mm; stigma capitate, broader than style. Fruit bluish black or black, subglobose, 4–5 mm in diam.; stones ovoid-globose, ca. 3.5 mm in diam., inconspicuously ribbed. Fl. Jun–Jul, fr. Aug–Sep.
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.0 - 6.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) 0.4
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light 4-9
Soil humidity 3-5
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-5

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 90 - 730
Germination temperacture (C°) 10 - 15
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -29
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Cornus bretschneideri unspecified picture

Distribution

Cornus bretschneideri world distribution map, present in Chile and China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:271516-1
WFO ID wfo-0000924601
COL ID YGHB
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN)
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Synonyms

Swida bretschneideri Cornus aspera Cornus bretschneideri Swida aspera Swida bretschneideri var. crispa Swida bretschneideri var. gracilis Cornus bretschneideri var. crispa Cornus bretschneideri var. gracilis Cornus bretschneideri var. bretschneideri