Flowering dogwood

All of the flowering dogwoods have these showy braets surrounding the flowerheads, in shades of oream, pale yellow or pink. This is Colrigo Giant. ... 

Comus, Dogwood flowering dogwood. Dried root berk of Corn us florida L Cornaceae. Habit. Eastern U.S, and Ontario. Constir. Cornine,... 

Capsule content Equisetum arvense L., White Poplar Bark, Hypericum perforatum L. flowers. Dogwood Berry, Schisandra chinensis Baill (Turez), Matricaria recutita (L.) extract. 

Figure 84. A garden pressure-pump pressure tank being used by J. S. Olson to hasten movement of tracer mixture from Tygon tubing into a pipe threaded into the bole of a flowering dogwood tree (Comus florida). From Olson (1%8).

Flowering dogwood Cornus florida L.) - a small tree growing up to 10 m high, native to Eastern North America is considered a short to medium-lived tree which can live up to 100 years on good sites. Cornus florida is one of the most beautiful ornamental trees in the world. The fruit is a cluster of up to 10 scarlet oblong oval berries whieh oeeasionally can be yellow and persist beyond January. There are valued fruits for birds and wildlife. 

The leaves of Erythroxylon coca, the divine plant of the Incas, contain a local anesthetic and a psychostimulant. Erythroxylaceae is a very small family, represented by two genera, the more important of which is Erythroxylon. They are mostly tropical shrubs with entire leaves and 5-merous flowers, and the fruit is a 1-seeded, reddish drupe resembling that of dogwood. The anatomy of the plants of this family closely resembles that of the Linaceae. Of special interest is the development of papillae on the dorsal surface of the leaves. This is found in most species of Erythroxylon. 

When I first started making sugar-paste flowers, I simply went to my local cake-supply shop and bought a few sizes of dogwood cutters, which are the flower shapes I use on my popular chocolate Love Blossom cakes (page 31). 

I still prefer to use my old dogwood cutters to create basic flower shapes because they re clean and modern. You can jazz them up with dotted piping in the center or stack them in alternating directions to create depth. If you re starting your cutter collection, buy these first. The other flower shapes I use most often are jasmine and rose calyx... 

Comaceae, also known as the dogwood family, is a family of flowering trees, shrubs and subshrubs in the order Comales, well known in the northern temperate areas for two genera Cornus, the dogwoods and Nyssa, the tupelos. 

Pagoda dogwood Cornus alternifolia L.) - a flowering small tree growing up to 9 m tall, native to Eastern North America. The fruits are globular blue black drupes, eaten by birds and black bears. 

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