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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Cornus mas
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 117. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=European cornel;cornelian cherry
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cornus mascula
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Cornaceae;Cornus;Cornus subg. Cornus;Cornus mas
|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. Cornus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cornus mas]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 450
|treatment_page=page 449
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or small trees, to 5 m, flowering at 2 m. <b>Stems</b> solitary, branching profusely from lower trunk, bark of thin broad plates that shed sporadically, leaving a mottled gray-tan to red color; branches splotched with maroon, brown, or red, eventually splitting along longitudinal swellings; branchlets green, densely appressed-hairy; lenticels maroon swellings, often erupting with corky surface. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 5–10 mm, base encircling twig; blade elliptic, 4–9 × 2–4 cm, base cuneate, apex acute or short acuminate, abaxial surface yellow-green, appressed-hairy, tufts of erect hairs in axils of secondary veins, adaxial surface dark green, sparsely appressed-hairy; secondary veins 4–5 per side, most usually arising from basal 1/2. <b>Inflorescences</b> 10–15-flowered; peduncle 5–10 mm; bracts tan or brown, ovate, 0.5–1 cm, apex obtuse with apiculate tip. <b>Pedicels</b> lax, apex flared. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium narrowly conic, appressed-hairy; sepals 0.1–0.5 mm; petals bright yellow, lanceolate, 3–4 mm. <b>Drupes</b> maturing from green to yellow, then red, ellipsoid, 10–15 × 5–7.5 mm; stone widely fusiform, 8–12 × 4–6 mm, with 2 lateral grooves on distal 2/3. <b>2n</b> = 18</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun; fruiting Aug–Sep.
|habitat=Disturbed areas, woodland margins.
|elevation=0–1000 m.
|distribution=Ill.;N.Y.;Pa.;Europe;Asia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p><i>Cornus mas</i> is regularly utilized in horticulture throughout North America and is a rare local escape.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Cornus mas
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Cornus mascula
|basionyms=
|family=Cornaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun; fruiting Aug–Sep.
|habitat=Disturbed areas, woodland margins.
|elevation=0–1000 m.
|distribution=Ill.;N.Y.;Pa.;Europe;Asia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_546.xml
|genus=Cornus
|subgenus=Cornus subg. Cornus
|species=Cornus mas
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