Cornus walteri Wangerin

The fruit is a source of oil, the hard wood is used for making tools, and the tree itself is planted as a street tree.

Trees 6–15 m tall. Bark dark gray, rectangularly splitting. Young branches green, ± 4-angled, densely pubescent with grayish white short trichomes; old branches yellow-green, glabrous. Leaves opposite; petiole (0.8–)3.5 cm; leaf blade light green abaxially, narrowly elliptic to broadly ovate, 4–12(–15) × 1.7–5.5(–8) cm, papery, abaxially with grayish white short appressed trichomes, scabrous, veins 4(or 5), small veins inconspicuously reticulate, base cuneate, rarely rounded or cordate, often oblique, apex shortly to long acuminate. Corymbose cymes dense, 7–9 cm wide, with short white trichomes. Pedicels 0.8–2.7 mm. Flowers fragrant, white, ca. 9.5 mm in diam. Calyx lobes triangular, ca. 0.4 mm, equal to disk. Petals oblong-lanceolate, 4.5–6 × 1.2–1.5 mm. Stamens 4.8–5 mm, equal to or longer than petals; anthers light yellow, rarely rosy red, oblong-ovoid. Style clavate, ca. 3.5 mm; stigma capitate, not broader than style. Fruit black, globose, 6–7(–8) mm in diam.; stones compressed globose, ca. 5 × 4 mm, inconspicuously ribbed. Fl. May–Jun, fr. Aug–Oct.

Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang.

Mixed sparse to dense forests; 300–2500(–3000) m.

Cornus walteri, also called Walter's dogwood, is a deciduous shrub or small tree 8–16 m tall, native to eastern Asia in Korea and much of China from Liaoning to Yunnan.

Cornus walteri has opposite, simple leaves, 5–12 cm long. The flowers are produced in inflorescences 6–8 cm diameter, each flower individually small and whitish. The flowering is in spring, after it leafs out. The fruit is a round, reddish-purple "drupaceous berry", 2.5-3.5 cm diameter.

It is closely related to the European common dogwood (C. sanguinea).

Cornus walteri