Size: tree, 18' average height at maturity, 15-20'spread
Buds: axillary (not necessarily terminal), rounded, yellow-green, usually with 3 visible scales; vegetative buds valvate, pointed, less appressed than in other dogwoods
Leaves: deciduous, opposite, 2-4" long, .75-1.5" wide, simple, ovate to elliptic, tips acute or acuminate, margins entire, dark green, purplish red in fall
Twigs: usually red above, green below, slender
Flowers: monoecious, yellow in early spring, in .75" umbels
Fruit: bright red drupe about .5" long, July, edible
Bark: exfoliating gray-brown or rich brown
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