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Cornaceae Bercht. et J.Presl (ミズキ科)






Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

Engler's syllabus (エングラー体系)
Aucuba Thunb. (アオキ)
One native species in Japan
The scientific genus name originating from aokiba (青木葉)
Cornus L. (ミズキ)
Davidia Baill. (ハンカチノキ)

Cornus L. (ミズキ)


Trees except a few species are herbaceous - all are trees in the other genera in Cornaceae Flower: actinomorphic with 4-5 petals
Infrorescence: conical or racemed
Japan
Cornus L. (s.l.): four subgenera
Cornus L. (s.s.): cyme, white - yellow flower with a small involucre, no species in Japan
Swida Opiz, cyme, without an involucre
C. controversa (Hemsl.) Soj. (ミズキ)
C. macrophylla (Wall.) Soj. (クマノミズキ): not in Hokkaido
Chamaepericlymenum Hill, capitulum, shrub or perennial herb
C. canadense Asch. et Graebn. (ゴゼンタチバナ)
C. suecicum (L.) Asch. et Graebn. (エゾゴゼンタチバナ)
Benthamidia Spach, capitulum
C. kousa (Siebold et Zucc.) H. Hara (ヤマボウシ): non-native to Hokkaido
Non-native to Japan
C. alba L. (シラタマミズキ)
C. bretschneideri L. Henry (トウミズキ)
C. florida L. (アメリカヤマボウシ)
C. mas L. (セイヨウサンシュユ), the Mediterranean
C. officinalis Siebold et Zucc. (サンシュユ)
Alaska
C. sericea L. (Redosier dogwood, no Japanese name)
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