Common name refers to the cherry-like fruits which resemble in color the semi-precious gemstone carnelian (or cornelian). Specific epithet comes from the Latin word for male in reference to the absence of fruits that sometimes occurs for several years after new plants begin to bloom. Cornus is also the Latin name for cornelian cherry. Again produces a great show of yellow flowers before the leaves emerge.
Genus name comes from the Latin word cornu meaning horn in probable reference to the strength and density of the wood. Wonderful form of Cornelian Cherry with striking green and white variegated foliage. Fruits may be used for making syrups and preserves. Variegata (Cornus mas 'Variegata') Variegated Cornelian Cherry is a shrubby tree to 12, has masses of yellow flowers on blackish limbs in late winter, edible fruit (pretty sour actually so it is mostly used for jelly, etc.) and good fall color: a super tree all-told. Fruits are edible, although sour tasting fresh off the plant. Fruits are ellipsoid, fleshy, one-seeded berries (drupes to 5/8" long) which mature to cherry red in mid-summer. Ovate to elliptic dark green leaves (to 4" long) typically develop insignificant fall color. A rare wonderful small tree with sweeping horizontal branching leaves which are strikingly variegated with a creamy-white border. The more shade, the more the plant becomes layered. The layers of white and green foliage is amazing. Each umbel is surrounded at the base by small, yellowish, petaloid bracts which are much less showy than the large decorative bracts found on some other species of dogwood such as Cornus florida (flowering dogwood) and Cornus kousa (kousa dogwood). We brought our plant from Holland in the late 70’s. Yellow flowers on short stalks bloom in early spring before the leaves emerge in dense, showy, rounded clusters (umbels to 3/4" wide). Scaly, exfoliating bark develops on mature trunks. It typically grows over time to 15-25' tall with a spread to 12-20' wide. Cornus mas, commonly known as cornelian cherry, is a deciduous shrub or small tree that is native to central and southern Europe into western Asia.
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