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Common name: Flowering dogwood.
Voucher: Kostadinov 043, (URV)
Brief description: A widely branched, small tree; the bark becoming deeply checked. Leaves are ovate to elliptic, simple, opposite, entire, pinnately veined, margins entire, strigillose-hairy on both sides. Flowers are perfect, yellowish, about 20-30 in a cluster (reduced cymose inflorescence), with four white to pink obcordate bracts. Fruits are a red drupe, with a bilocular stone.
Campus data: Very frequently cultivated around the campus, encountered in the wild as well.