Re: [nafex] Ancient Fruit Cornelian Cherry Warrants a Comeback (ABC News)

I devote a whole chapter to Cornus mas in my book Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden. One website says that "mas" means is a Latin prefix meaning "strong", referring to the wood, which you quickly find out it is, when pruning.

That same site states that "cornelian" comes from "cornel" which comes from "cornu", describing hard and tough objects, such as the horn of a goat. Researching for my book, however, I found that "cornelian" refers to the fruits similatrity in color to cornelian (or carnelian) quartz. Cornelian quartz "has a waxy luster and a deep red, reddish white, of flesh red ('carnis' is Latin for flesh color) color". Perhaps the "mas" meaning is also wrong; perhaps I'm wrong about Cornus meaning.

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Landscaping with Fruit
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> On Mar 16, 2016, at 12:57 AM, Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us> wrote:
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> I read, probably on this list, that "mas" is for "masculine, since the young tree only produces masculine blooms.
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> Ginda Fisher
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> On Mar 15, 2016, at 5:35 PM, Dr. Lucky Pittman wrote:
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>> C.mas in full bloom here in KY right now.
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>> Saw a post on Facebook one night last week... nice photo, with caption
>> "Cornus mas fruit" , and underneath, the 'see translation hypertext'...
>> clicked on it... "Cornus more fruit"... from Spanish....
>> Duh. I knew 'mas' meant 'more' in el Espanol... but I'm not certain that
>> that is where that specific epithet came from.
>>
>> Lucky Pittman
>> Hopkinsville, KY
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>> Chron.com
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>> Ancient Fruit Cornelian Cherry Warrants a Comeback
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>> ABC News
>> Summer and fall also bring fruits, which, unknown to most people, are
>> edible. The fruits - oval, fire-engine red, with a single stone - look a lot
>> like ...
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