Little is known in cultivation of this North Californian shrub, which in a wild state is 10 to 15 ft high, and was introduced in 1903. The young bark is greenish, and clothed with silky hairs; leaves shortly stalked, crowded at the end of the twigs; 11⁄2 to 3 in. long, ovate, tapered at both ends, but more gradually towards the apex; nearly glabrous above, and with flattened hairs and tufts of down in the vein-axils beneath; veins in about four pairs. Flowers 1⁄4 in. across, yellow, crowded in stalkless umbels, at first enclosed by four ovate bracts 1⁄3 in. long; flower-stalks silky, 1⁄3 in. long. Fruit oval, 1⁄2 in. long, dark purple. This shrub, producing its flowers, themselves stalked, in clusters without stalks, from the axils of four bracts and on leafless twigs, belongs to the same group as C. mas and C. officinalis.
Cornus sessilis Torr.
Genus
Other species in the genus
- Cornus alba L.
- Cornus alternifolia L. f.
- Cornus amomum Mill.
- Cornus asperifolia Michx.
- Cornus australis C. A. Mey.
- Cornus baileyi Coult. & Evans
- Cornus capitata Wall.
- Cornus controversa Hemsl.
- Cornus florida L.
- Cornus glabrata Benth.
- Cornus hemsleyi Schneid. & Wanger.
- Cornus hessei Koehne
- Cornus kousa Hance
- Cornus macrophylla Wall.
- Cornus mas L.
- Cornus monbeigii Hemsl.
- Cornus nuttallii Audubon
- Cornus oblonga Wall.
- Cornus occidentalis Cov.
- Cornus paucinervis Hance
- Cornus racemosa Lam.
- Cornus rugosa Lam.
- Cornus sanguinea L.
- Cornus stolonifera Michx.
- Cornus walteri Wanger.