View source for Cornus alternifolia

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Cornus alternifolia, Linn. (Svida alternifolia, Small). Fig. 1063. Shrub or small tree, to 25 ft.: lvs. slender-petioled, elliptic or ovate, usually cuneate, acuminate, nearly glabrous above, pale or whitish beneath and appressed pubescent, 3-5 in. long: cymes l½-2½ in. wide: fr. dark blue, globular, ⅓in. across, on red peduncles. May, June. New Bruns. to Ga. and Ala., west to Minn. S.S. 5:216. Em. 463. Wang. 51.—Of very distinct habit, the branches being arranged in irregular whorls, forming flat, horizontally spreading tiers, as in the picture. A variety which shows this habit more distinctly than the common form is var. umbraculifers, Dieck. Var. argentea, Temple & Beard, is a form with white-marked foliage. Var. ochroleuca, Rehd., has yellowish frs.
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