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Title: State Tree and Flower: Missouri


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State Tree and Flower Missouri
  • John Crowe

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Flowering Dogwood
  • Taxonomy Cornaceae, Cornus florida.
  • Cornus Latin for Horns
  • Fruit Shiny red drupe in small clusters
  • Deciduous, growing up to 30 m
  • Unable to self-fertilize, so breeding is
  • easier
  • Grows in the lower half of Missouri cultivated
    throughout.

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April Flowers
  • White bracts surround
  • flower clusters

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History
  • Previously known as the American Dogwood,
    Florida Dogwood, Indian Arrowwood, Cornelian
    Tree, White Cornel, False Box, and False Boxwood
  • Used in production of inks, scarlet dyes, and as
    a quinine substitute
  • Hard, dense wood used for golf club heads,
    mallets, wooden rake teeth, tool handles,
    jewelers boxes and butchers blocks
  • Used to treat diarrhea twigs were used to chew
    on to whiten teeth. Forerunner of the toothbrush.

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Flowering Hawthorn
  • Taxonomy Rosaceae, Crataegus monogyna
  • Fruit Dark red haws (pome)
  • Important for winter wildlife
  • Edible by humans, used in jams
  • and jellies
  • Fruits contain tannins, flavonoids,
  • vitamins

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May Flowers
  • Hermaphroditic corymbs
  • Pollinated by midges

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History
  • Used to treat a variety of ailments improves
    circulation and used with digitalis
  • Oldest living specimen in England over 700 years
    old
  • 'n'er cast a clout 'til may is out'
  • Serbian folklore Use hawthorn stakes to kill
    vampires
  • 'When all fruit fails, welcome haws- common
    expression in Ireland
  • Gaelic folklore Marks the entrance to fairy
    world. Warning extended to modern De Lorean.
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