Flowers:
Cream (Creamy-white flowers in flat-topped cymes (1.5-2" dia.) in late spring)
Foliage:
Green (Summer); Red-Violet (Generally good red to purple fall color)
Fruit:
White (Whitish berries (drupes) in summer)
Soil:
Adaptable to a variety of soil conditions, but prefers a moist, well-drained soil
Range:
Siberia to Manchuria, Korea
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves (2-4.5" long and half as wide) opposite, simple, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, usually rounded at base, dark green above and somewhat glaucous beneath. Dogwood veins sweep toward, but never contact, the leaf margin. Round fruit is white and flattened slightly at each end. Stems are greenish-red in summer, turning to a blood-red in fall and winter. Stems have prominent whitish lenticels. Difficult to separate Cornus alba and Cornus sericea in winter.
