Cornus schindleri

Chinese dogwood is in the dogwood or Cornaceae family and is native to parts of China. It is a tree or shrub growing up to 8 m tall.

• Young branches are 4-angled, densely pubescent with brown or grayish trichomes; old branches are reddish or grayish purplish brown, glabrous, with sparse whitish lenticels. Bark is brown.
• Leaves are opposite, light green or grayish green, elliptic or ovate-elliptic to broadly ovate, 4–11 cm long and 2.5–6.5 cm broad, papery to thickly papery, conspicuously pubescent with whitish to brownish curly spreading trichomes on veins or on entire surface.
• Flowers are white, 7–8 mm in diameter.
• Fruit is purplish or reddish black, sub-globose, 4–6 mm in diameter, ripening from August to October.