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Cornales
Cornales, the dogwood order, earliest-diverging asterid order of flowering plants; 10 families, 42 genera, ~605 species in five clades; mid-Cretaceous origin with rapid radiation and rich late Cretaceous fossil record.
Cornus amomum
Cornus amomum, commonly called silky dogwood, is a deciduous dogwood shrub native to eastern North America, recognized by purple young stems, silky leaves, and clusters of blue fruits.
Cornus sanguinea
Cornus sanguinea (common dogwood, bloodtwig dogwood) is a deciduous European shrub of Cornaceae with red winter stems, white May-June flowers, purplish-black fruits, seeds 30% fat used for soap and lamp oil, and cultivars like 'Midwinter Fire'.
Escallonia
Escallonia (Mutis ex L.f., 1782) is a genus of about 40 evergreen shrubs and small trees in Escalloniaceae, native from Costa Rica to southern South America; n=12 chromosomes, Andean origin, popular flowering hedge plants.
Sambucus canadensis
Sambucus canadensis, American elderberry (sureau du Canada), a Viburnaceae shrub native from North America to Venezuela and Bolivia; also treated as Sambucus nigra subsp. canadensis; cooked purple-black berries edible, used in food, medicine, and wildlife plantings.
Sambucus racemosa
Sambucus racemosa, the red elderberry or red-berried elder, is a deciduous shrub of North America and Eurasia with white flower clusters and toxic-when-raw red berries.