red-osier dogwood

noun

a North American shrub, Cornus stolonifera , having bright or dark red wood, white flowers, and whitish fruit

For damp ground there is no better shrub than the red osier dogwood.

Those spreading, pointed fingers of coral with a background of dazzling white are the topmost twigs of the red osier dogwood.

Cornus stolonifera (red-osier dogwood), prevailing shrub on shore of West Branch; fruit still white in August, 1857.

Again the speckled trunks of the balm poplars struck my eye, now interspersed with the scarlet stems of the red osier dogwood.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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