Cornus macrophyllaWall.

WFO wfo-0000924758 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cornus macrophylla, photographed by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
fig. a WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205385780
Cornus macrophylla, photographed by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
fig. b WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205387668
Cornus macrophylla, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 183106196
Cornus macrophylla, photographed by りなべる
fig. d りなべる, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111706517
Cornus macrophylla, photographed by Cynthia Su
fig. e Cynthia Su, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 72393256
Cornus macrophylla, photographed by Yoshihiro Tokue
fig. f Yoshihiro Tokue, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 48147689
Cornus macrophylla, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. g Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 46356854
Cornus macrophylla, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. h Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 51415147

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
5109120
Filed as
Cornus macrophylla Wall.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
R. R. Stewart 1917-04-21
Origin
PK
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Cornus macrophylla is native: Afghanistan, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Japan, Korea, Sakhalin, Taiwan, Tibet, Assam, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya AfghanistanChina North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanJapanSakhalinTaiwanTibetAssamEast HimalayaMyanmarNepalPakistanWest Himalaya Korea
Native distribution of Cornus macrophylla, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
China North-Central CHN
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Sakhalin SAK
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
West Himalaya WHM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 211 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -5.5 °C 4.5 °C 10.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 21.8 °C 24.7 °C 29.6 °C
Annual rainfall 1,419 mm 3,067 mm 3,747 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 132 mm 243 mm 427 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 211 research-grade observations of Cornus macrophylla that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 19 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Bothrocaryum longipetiolatum (Hayata) Pojark.
  • Cornus alpina W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu
  • Cornus brachypoda C.A.Mey.
  • Cornus corynostylis Koehne
  • Cornus crispula Hance
  • Cornus longipedunculata W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu
  • Cornus longipetiolata Hayata
  • Cornus religiana G.Nicholson
  • Cornus stracheyi (C.B.Clarke) Hemsl.
  • Cornus taiwaniensis Kaneh.
  • Cornus thelicanis Lebas
  • Swida alpina (W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu) W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu
  • Swida brachypoda (C.A.Mey.) Soják
  • Swida macrophylla (Wall.) Soják
  • Swida macrophylla var. longipedunculata (W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu) W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu
  • Swida microphylla (Wall.) Soják
  • Swida stracheyi (C.B.Clarke) Soják
  • Thelycrania brachypoda (C.A.Mey.) Pojark.
  • Thelycrania macrophylla (Wall.) Pojark.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.