Cornus florida
- Popular ornamental flowering tree
- Flowers succeeded by attractive, red, berry-like fruit
- Grows to 40 feet in height
- Deciduous
- Leaf veins curve inward towards leaf tips
- Leaves are opposite on the twig
- Rugged bark covers horizontal branches and trunk
- Strong hard wood used for making tool handles and shuttles used in the textile industry
- Widely distributed in temperate regions; grows well in moist, sloping hillsides
