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Cornus capitata
Beautiful, showy white flower heads on a medium-sized tree. the flower heads were on narrow upright stems bearing tight clusters of minute flowers with reduced petals ( pic 5). Each flower head had creamy white bracts - about 4 and sometimes 6. These bracts appeared green on younger flowerheads (pic 4) or tinged with pink (pic 3). Leaves had glossy upper surface.
Spotted growing in a reserve in the Dandenong Ranges ( Wet Eucalyptus forest). A native to India and China, is now naturalised in Australia and New Zealand.
Family: Cornaceae
This is a species of Dogwood and has several other names like evergreen dogwood, Himalayan flowering dogwood, and Himalayan strawberry-tree.
The fruit are said to be attractive red berries - looking forward to seeing some. Said to be edible but bitter.
Spotted on Dec 12, 2014
Submitted on Dec 12, 2014
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