Cornus macrophylla

Description

Trees, rarely shrubs, 2-15(-25) m tall. Bark grayish brown or grayish black, smooth when young, scaly when old; young branches stout, - 4-angled, sparsely pubescent with grayish short trichomes, later glabrous; old branches dark brown, with yellowish white or grayish white elliptic to rounded lenticels and semicircular leaf scars. Leaves opposite; petiole 1.5-3 cm; leaf blade light green to slightly white abaxially, broadly elliptic, broadly ovate, or ovate-oblong, rarely elliptic, 9-16(-18) - 3.5-8.8 cm, papery, abaxially papillate, with appressed grayish white or brown short deciduous trichomes, veins 5-8, small veins conspicuous, base rounded, broadly cuneate, rarely oblique, apex acute or shortly acuminate. Inflorescences paniculate or sometimes corymbose cymes, 8-12 cm wide, sparsely or rarely densely pubescent with raised trichomes; peduncle sometimes reddish. Pedicels 0.3-4.5 mm. Flowers fragrant, white, (7-)8-10 mm in diam. Calyx lobes triangular or broadly triangular, 0.4-0.5 mm, rarely to 1 mm, taller than disk. Petals ligulate-oblong to ovate-oblong, 3-4 - 0.9-1.8 mm. Stamens equal to or slightly longer than petals; anthers yellow or rarely blue, oblong or obovoid-oblong. Style cylindrical, slightly expanded at apex to apparently clavate, 2-4 mm; stigma subcapitate, broader than style, slightly lobed. Fruit purplish black or bluish black, subglobose, 4.5-6 mm in diam.; stones compressed globose, (2.6-)3-4 mm in diam., ribs 6 or 8. Fl. Jun-Jul(-Aug), fr. Aug-Sep(-Oct).