Himalayan Strawberry Tree, Evergreen Dogwood, Bentham Cornel Royalty-Free Stock Image

 Himalayan Strawberry Tree, Evergreen Dogwood, Bentham;s Cornel Benthams, Himalayan Strawberry Tree is a small evergreen tree, leaves a paler green underneath, with prominent ribs. The flowers feature four rounded, dark creamy or yellowish petal-like bracts in June or early July. Sometimes the bracts fade to mauvy-pink. The actually tiny flowers are packed in the central head. In bloom the tree is beautiful. The ensuing fruit is a compound head like cluster of reddish berries, up to 2 inches wide, edible but not delectable; ripe in fall. The 1820 epithet capitata means headed; from Latin caput, head, referring to the mound like heads of flowers and fruits. The extraordinary red fruit body is composed of 30 or 40 pink, fused, roughly six-sided fruits each with a stubby, central-style remna