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|accepted_name=Cornus kousa
|accepted_authority=Bürger ex Hance
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Linn. Soc., Bot.
|place=13: 105. 1872
|year=1872
}}
|common_names=Kousa dogwood
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Benthamia japonica
|authority=Siebold & Zuccarini
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Benthamidia japonica
|authority=(Siebold & Zuccarini) H. Hara
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Dendrobenthamia japonica
|authority=(Siebold & Zuccarini) Hutchinson
}}
|hierarchy=Cornaceae;Cornus;Cornus subg. Syncarpea;Cornus kousa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cornaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cornus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Cornus subg. Syncarpea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cornus kousa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 445
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>to 10 m, flowering at 2 m. <b>Stems</b> solitary or clustered, bark mottled gray and tan, of thin exfoliating plates; branches gray-maroon with longitudinal fissures, bark flaky; branchlets gray, densely appressed-hairy; lenticels pale, round or lenticular spots. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 5–12 mm; blade elliptic, ovate, or widely ovate, 5–8 × 2–5 cm, base cuneate, apex long acuminate, abaxial surface pale green, appressed-hairy, tufts of erect hairs in axils of secondary veins, adaxial surface dark green, appressed-hairy; secondary veins 4–6 per side, evenly spaced, vein also present on leaf margin. <b>Inflorescences</b> subglobose, 0.9–1.4 cm diam., 40–75-flowered; peduncle 40–60 mm; petaloid bracts white to slightly yellow, narrowly ovate, rhombic, or trullate, 4–7 × 3–6 cm, base cuneate, apex acuminate. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium appressed-hairy; sepals 1–1.5 mm; petals cream or yellow-green, 3–4 mm. <b>Syncarps</b> red, subglobose, 20–27 mm diam.; stones ellipsoid, 7–9 × 4–5 mm, smooth.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jul; fruiting Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Disturbed areas, lawns.
|elevation=0–1000 m.
|distribution=N.Y.;N.C.;Asia (China;Japan;Korea).
|discussion=<p>Cornus kousa is frequently planted in the flora area as an ornamental and for its edible fruit. Though not well established, it has been noted to spread from cultivation.</p>
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name=Cornus kousa
|author=
|authority=Bürger ex Hance
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Benthamidia japonica;Dendrobenthamia japonica
|basionyms=Benthamia japonica
|family=Cornaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jul; fruiting Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Disturbed areas, lawns.
|elevation=0–1000 m.
|distribution=N.Y.;N.C.;Asia (China;Japan;Korea).
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=J. Linn. Soc., Bot.
|publication year=1872
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Cornus
|subgenus=Cornus subg. Syncarpea
|species=Cornus kousa
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