Kousa dogwood - fall fruit - edible to animals and people

Kousa dogwood - fall fruit - edible to animals and people..

Common name: Kousa dogwood

* Botanical name: Cornus kousa 

* What it is: A small flowering tree with white or pink late-spring flowers, interesting mottled bark and warty, red-orange, marble-sized fruits in fall. There’s always something going on. More resistant to borers, leaf disease and clay soil than our native dogwood. Especially good varieties: ‘Greensleeves,’ ‘Moonbeam’ and ‘Milky Way.’

See more at: http://georgeweigel.net/plant-of-the-week-profiles/trees/kousa-dogwood#sthash.RxOrulon.dpuf