Cornus masL.

Cornelian cherry

WFO wfo-0000924760 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Cornus mas, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. a Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-03 / obs. 203015833
Cornus mas, photographed by Philipp
fig. b Philipp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193763678
Cornus mas, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. c Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201354878
Cornus mas, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. d Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188115889
Cornus mas, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. e Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198704975
Cornus mas, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. f Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189085727
Cornus mas, photographed by Mirko Ubović
fig. g Mirko Ubović, CC0 1.0 / obs. 188116467
Cornus mas, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. h Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187471185

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Flowering n = 2,044 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 2,044 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 37 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.

  • Cornus erythrocarpa St.-Lag.
  • Cornus flava Steud.
  • Cornus homerica Bubani
  • Cornus mas f. alba (Weston) Rehder
  • Cornus mas f. albocarpa C.K.Schneid.
  • Cornus mas f. andrzejowskii Wierdak
  • Cornus mas f. aurea C.K.Schneid.
  • Cornus mas f. aurea-elegantissima (T.Moore) Schelle
  • Cornus mas f. conica Jovan.
  • Cornus mas f. elegantissima G.Nicholson
  • Cornus mas f. flava (Weston) Rehder
  • Cornus mas f. luteocarpa C.K.Schneid. ex Wangerin
  • Cornus mas f. macrocarpa Sanadze
  • Cornus mas f. macrocarpa Dippel
  • Cornus mas f. microcarpa Sanadze
  • Cornus mas f. nana (Carrière) C.K.Schneid.
  • Cornus mas f. oxycarpa Jovan.
  • Cornus mas f. polonica Wierdak
  • Cornus mas f. pyriformis Sanadze
  • Cornus mas f. variegata (Loudon) G.Nicholson
  • Cornus mas var. alba Weston
  • Cornus mas var. albocarpa (C.K.Schneid.) Bean
  • Cornus mas var. aurea-elegantissima (T.Moore) Carrière
  • Cornus mas var. flava Weston

and 13 more.

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.

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