Talk:Cornus florida

Monoecious or Dioecious?
This is another plant article that I've noticed does not say whether the tree is monoecious or dioecious. While this may seem trivial, it is actually an extremely hard-to-find fact (that's why I don't know), and would make Wikipedia more useful if it was specified. So if someone knows, could they add it to the article? --Edward Tremel 18:21, 20 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, look what I found!


 * This states that Cornus florida is monoecious, so with that in mind, those changes will be made. --chris 23:15, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Edible or Poisonous??
I was looking through the web and see many mentions that the berries are poisonous to humans. This Wikipedia says they're edible! OK I'm not going to eat a bunch to find out in the face of doubt, nor do I even have any particular need to eat the fruit, but which is it? Danny Miller

Hi —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.205.217.129 (talk) 19:31, 18 February 2008 (UTC)  I used to live in a developement called Dogwood.lol dog wood is state flower —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.191.47.66 (talk) 23:44, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Because there is no cite to the claim that the berries are edible I'm removing it. Please add a cite if you're going to re-add it. FyreFiend (talk) 03:58, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Can I eat the red fruits of dogwoods?
"Some dogwoods produce larger fruits than others, and some are tasty and some are not. The fruits of our native flowering dogwood, Cornus florida, are not poisonous, but they do not have a very pleasing flavor. The Chinese dogwood, Cornus kousa, has spherical fruits about the size of a quarter. When ripe in midsummer, they turn coral red and develop their full flavor and sweetness, with a flavor comparable to some melons. The cornelian cherry, Cornus mas, produces a tart, elongated fruit with a hard pit in the middle and a thin layer of flesh. These bright red fruits are sometimes used to make preserves, jam, or jelly with a flavor similar to cherries." source: www.usna.usda.gov/Gardens/faqs/dogwoodfaq2.html -96.233.30.86 (talk) 02:17, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Will add.512bits (talk) 17:06, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Flowering dogwood redirects here, but....
We use that name for the Pacific dogwood, as I guess the Wiki article name might be, which is the provincial flower of British Columbia. I found this image File:The western flowering dogwood (HS85-10-40058).jpg in the Commons, but I'm not sure now if it's of the BC Dogwood, or if this is a cornus florida photographed from an arboretum or garden in eastern Canada.Skookum1 (talk) 06:47, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Dogwood & Christianity
As a child I heard that Jesus was crucified on a dogwood tree and that the dogwood's flower represented the crucifixion of Jesus in some way. I found one source that talks about this: http://www.visualforces.com/christian/photography/nature/the-dogwood/ How widespread was/is this notion? I'm writing from central North Carolina. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.57.22.246 (talk) 00:04, 17 April 2014 (UTC)


 * I've heard that all my life here in North Geogia...I don't know if it has deeper roots than the American South. Obviousy since the crusifiction took place in the  Levant, one would wonder if the species Cornus floridus was endemic to that are...it seems not...I actually came to Wickepedia to find that out.  It seems that the answer is no, but that similar species did exist in Eurasia.    The way I heard the story is that the 4 white bracts of the pseudo-flower that form the cross are a mark of shame for the Dogwood--which  happens to bloom around Easter.  The red droops or berries of course are drops of blood.  Simetmes, I believe, the Dogwood is said to have once been amighty tree like the Oak, but agin the shame of participating inthe crucifixion brought it low--that is to its understory stature.  Would be interested to know if this is a European or Mediteranean legend as well as from the US. 98.20.166.132 (talk) 01:00, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

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Incompatible statements: "it has hermaphroditic [perfect] flowers" and "the plant is monoecious"
Please resolve the incompatibility by deciding whether it indeed has perfect flowers (a synoecious plant), or unisexual flowers (a monoecious plant), or a mix of perfect and unisexual flowers (a trioecious plant). --Yuezrnaem (talk) 20:40, 18 March 2020 (UTC)