'Variegata' features leaves with bluish-green centers and creamy white margins. This cultivar has variegated white pink green foliage so creates an almost year round small tree. Flowers are produced in late January and are golden yellow. Common name refers to the cherry-like fruits which resemble in color the semi-precious gemstone carnelian (or cornelian). The Cornelian Cherry comes from eastern Europe and is grown for a source of vitamin C. This name was applied to this plant because it was seen as the opposite of Cornus sanguinea, known as the female or wild cornel. Traditionally, fruits and other organs of cornelian cherry used as valuable food, medicinal, ornamental, hedge, shade and/or honey (nectariferous) plant (Foster, 1955 Wiersema and Leon, 2013). The specific epithet mas means 'masculine' or 'male'. Dogwood trees and shrubs (Cornus spp.) include a large group of flowering plants within the genus Cornus. Cornus is also the Latin name for cornelian cherry. Genus name comes from the Latin word cornu meaning horn in probable reference to the strength and density of the wood. Fruits may be used for making syrups and preserves. Fruits are edible, although sour tasting fresh off the plant. Fruits are ellipsoid, fleshy, one-seeded berries (drupes to 5/8' long) which mature to cherry red in mid-summer. Ovate to elliptic dark green leaves (to 4' long) typically develop insignificant fall color. This is Cornus mas Theophrasti, or Theophrastus his male Cornell tree for he etteth downe two ortes of Cornell trees, the male and the female: he maketh the wood of the male to bee ound as in this Cornell tree which we both for this caue and for others alo, haue made to be the male the female is that which is commonly called Virga anguinea, or Dogs berrie tree, and Cornus ylvetris, or the wild Cornell tree, of which alo we will intreate of in the next chap. Each umbel is surrounded at the base by small, yellowish, petaloid bracts which are much less showy than the large decorative bracts found on some other species of dogwood such as Cornus florida (flowering dogwood) and Cornus kousa (kousa dogwood). Yellow flowers on short stalks bloom in early spring before the leaves emerge in dense, showy, rounded clusters (umbels to 3/4' wide). Accepted scientific plant name: Cornus mas Aureovariegata Synonyms: Classification. Scaly, exfoliating bark develops on mature trunks.

It typically grows over time to 15-25' tall with a spread to 12-20' wide. Cornus mas, commonly known as cornelian cherry, is a deciduous shrub or small tree that is native to central and southern Europe into western Asia.

Cornus mas aueovariegata