DWARF CORNEL 



autumn delights the eye with its bunches of bright- red 

 berries, which are really drupes, surmounting each 

 slender, leafy stem. The blossom is a copy of that of 

 the Flowering Dogwood, having a similar, great white 

 involucre whose four leaflets look like four white petals, 

 so that the inflorescence, which is rather unusual, looks 

 like a single, large, white flower with a greenish centre. 

 This greenish centre is really a bunch of tiny green 

 tubular florets, each of which will in autumn produce 

 a bright-scarlet berry. 



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