Dogwood white

Description:

Strongly branched deciduous entomophilous shrub up to 3 m tall. Branches are bare, thin, flexible, straight, arcuately curved by old age. The color of the bark is coral-red, rarely red-brown or black-red. The brightest bark is in young shoots. Young shoots are usually with a bluish bloom. Leaves are opposite, 2–10 cm long and 1–7 cm wide, on petioles about 1 cm long, with three to five prominent arcuate veins. The leaf blade is elliptical or broadly elliptical, whole-edged, covered on both sides with a short appressed pubescence, dark green above, glaucous below. Flowers are collected in dense shields 3–5 cm in diameter at the ends of the branches. Pedicels are covered with dense, appressed grayish and not numerous long reddish pubescence. Calyx with sharp short (0.1–0.3 mm long) wide-triangular teeth. Corolla with four white petals, broadly lanceolate, 4–5 mm long. Fruits are berry-shaped drupes, unripe - bluish, when ripe - bluish-white, flattened. Quite shade-tolerant, but grows well in full light.

Habitat:

It grows on coastal ramparts and bobbles, in birch and spruce forests, in swamps and along the edges of dwarf thickets.