Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Cornales > Cornaceae > Cornus > Cornus capitataCornus capitata (Bentham's cornel)Synonyms: Benthamia capitata (homotypic); Benthamidia capitata (homotypic); Cynoxylon capitatum (homotypic); Dendrobenthamia capitata (homotypic); Dendrobenthamiia angustata var. wuyishanensis; Dendrobenthamiia capitata; Dendrobenthamiia capitata var. emeiensis; Dendrobenthamiia emeiensis; Dendrobenthamiia hupehensis; Dendrobenthamiia longipedunculata; Dendrobenthamiia wuyishanensis; Dendrobenthamiia wuyishanica Cornus capitata is a species of dogwood known by the common names Bentham's cornel, evergreen dogwood, Himalayan flowering dogwood, and Himalayan strawberry-tree. It is native to the low-elevation woodlands of the Himalayas in China, India, and surrounding nations and it is naturalized in parts of Australia and New Zealand. It is grown elsewhere as an ornamental. This is an evergreen tree growing to 12 meters in height and width. The leaves are gray-green and pale and fuzzy underneath, and several centimeters long. It flowers during the summer in white blooms. The infructescence is a small aggregate of several individual fruits fused into a red body 2 or 3 centimeters across. It is edible but sometimes bitter. There are several varieties and hybrids. |
Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ database♦ 2Frugivory and seed dispersal by the yellow-throated marten, Martes
flavigula, in a subtropical forest of China, You-Bing Zhou, Eleanor Slade, Chris Newman, Xiao-Ming Wang and Shu-Yi Zhang, Journal of Tropical Ecology (2008) 24:219223 ♦ 3Frugivory and seed dispersal by a small carnivore, the Chinese ferret-badger, Melogale moschata, in a fragmented subtropical forest of central China, You-Bing Zhou, Liang Zhang, Yayoi Kaneko, Chris Newman, Xiao-Ming Wang, Forest Ecology and Management 255 (2008) 15951603 ♦ 4DIETARY SHIFTS IN RELATION TO FRUIT AVAILABILITY AMONG MASKED PALM CIVETS (PAGUMA LARVATA) IN CENTRAL CHINA, YOUBING ZHOU, JINSHUO ZHANG, ELEANOR SLADE, LIBIAO ZHANG, FRANCISCO PALOMARES, JIN CHEN, XIAOMING WANG, AND SHUYI ZHANG, Journal of Mammalogy, 89(2):435447, 2008 |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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