May 3, 2020

Common Dogwood


At this moment it is in flower and the rain that fell so much those first days of May does not matter.



Common Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea) is a bush you can find in many places. It can grow nearly everywhere on limestone soil, and often also elsewhere.




It makes beautiful bunches of white flowers, every flower with four petals, four stamens and a style.




At the end of summer it makes black berries.



Sometimes it covers with its branches and leaves that easily turn red piles of stones, old walls and forgotten corners in abandoned grounds.





Its leaves show typical curved, deep lying veins, they are easy to recognize.