Leaf: opposite, simple; up to 6 inches long, edges without teeth, leaf-stalks are up to 3/4 inches long
Flower: pink or white, several crowded together in a yellow-green cluster, 4 petals
Fruit: red ovoid berries up to 1/2 inch long, 1 or 2 seeds, not edible, cornelian cherry glossy red in the fall
Twig: slender, light brown or greenish
Bark: brown and divided in square plates
Form: small to medium tree, up to 40 feet tall, trunk diameter rarely more than 2 feet, crown rounded
Mae Meissner Whitaker Community Park in Bunker Hill, Illinois
Latitude: N 39°03.148'
Longitude: W 89°56.989'
The Flowering Dogwood is used in or as an Herbal Medicine. The fruit from the Flowering Dogwood is the Cornelian Cherry and is used for decorating purposes. The Family of the Flowering Dogwood is the Cornaceae. The genus is the Cornus.The Flowering Dogwood bark is ground and used in flower beds. The tree itself is used as an ornamental tree in lawns and gardens.. It is used for textile weaving shuttles, spools, bobbins, mallet heads, golf club heads, pulleys, levers, tool handles, jeweler's blocks, skids, and machinery bearings. The flowering dogwood is found in North America from Ontario to Texas.
© Community Unit School District #8 Bunker Hill, 504 E. Warren, Bunker Hill, IL 62014
References:
Flowering Dogwood: http://www.gypsymoth.ento.vt.edu/vagm/Treeimages/dogwood.html
Mohlenbrock, Robert H. Forest Trees of Illinois. Springfield, IL: 1992
What Tree is It?: http://www.oplin.lib.oh.us/products/tree/fact%20pages/dogwood_flowering/dogwood_flowering.html
WoodBin: http://www.woodbin.com/ref/wood/dogwood_flowering.html