Type of Flowers
Pacific Dogwood: The Pacific dogwood, Cornus nuttallii (syn. Benthamidia nuttallii), is a species of dogwood native to western North America from the lowlands of southern British Columbia to the mountains of southern California, alongside an inland population inwards key Idaho. Cultivated examples are works life every bit far N every bit Haida Gwaii. It is a modest to medium-sized deciduous tree, reaching 10–25 k tall.
The leaves are opposite, simple, oval, 8–12 cm long, in addition to 5–8 cm broad. The flowers are individually modest in addition to inconspicuous, 2–3 mm across, produced inwards a dense, rounded, greenish-white flowerhead two cm diameter; the 4-8 large white "petals" are truly bracts, each bract 4–7 cm long in addition to broad. The fruit is a chemical compound pink-red berry nearly iii cm diameter, containing 50-100 modest seeds; it is edible, though non really palatable.
Like the related flowering dogwood, it is really susceptible to dogwood anthracnose, a affliction caused past times the fungus Discula destructiva. This has killed many of the larger plants inwards the wild in addition to every bit good restricted its purpose every bit an ornamental tree.
Cornus nuttallii is named afterwards Thomas Nuttall, an English linguistic communication botanist in addition to zoologist who worked inwards North America inwards the nineteenth century.
Some Plateau Indian tribes used the bark every bit a laxative in addition to emetic.
It is the provincial blossom of British Columbia.It was i time protected past times police inwards the say (in an human activity which every bit good protected Rhododendron macrophyllum in addition to Trillium ovatum),[3] but this was repealed inwards 2002.
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