However, another interesting aspect of the kousa dogwood is that the fruit is edible. The fruit can be eaten fresh, and also altered into dressings, sauces and even wine. Some say the wine has a ...

Q: I read your list of landscape plants with attractive fruits, and I'm wondering if any of them are edible this time ... A few exceptions include: * Kousa dogwood, the Oriental version of ...

Native to China, kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa ... Another interesting aspect of the fruit is that it’s edible. Some say the taste resembles pawpaw while others describe the internal flavor ...

and some are edible. Cornelian cherry dogwood (Cornus mas) bears small red fruit that tastes like tart cherry and is commonly consumed in Turkey, among other countries, often as preserves or as a ...

And although I haven’t tried it yet, the Kousa dogwood’s fruit is edible and sometimes used to make wine. Ideally, we look for plants with three or four seasons of interest, especially if we ...

The soft, pinkish red of Kousa dogwood fruits, some still hanging on ... Yes, the fruits are edible, but they aren’t very palatable. They have a rubbery skin over mealy, just slightly sweet ...

FLOWERS: Showy creamy white bracts late spring, several weeks after bloom of common dogwood ... older wood. FRUIT: Drupe, raspberry-like, pinkish red to red, late August-October; edible but ...

Lisa, Indianapolis Dear Reader: The tree in question is the beautiful Japanese or Kousa dogwood ... the tree solves this problem. The fruit is actually edible, but somewhat mealy, so you and ...

While as many as 60 species of trees and shrubs are in the genus Cornus, the most common locally are our native flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) and the nonnative kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa).

Kousa Dogwood or Chinese dogwood ... oriental variety blooms and sets fruits at each leaf axil—producing more fruit to help it reseed. Sneezeweed– Helenium autumnale is a of the aster family ...