word - kwi’t-hulhp

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Ethnobiological notes: This much-branched, rather irregularly-shaped tree bears tiny flowers that are surrounded by large, white, showy petal-like bracts. The flowers are followed by the development of large, tight clusters of bright red berry-like fruits. Dogwood trees are limited in their distribution to most of Vancouver Island and the adjacent mainland as well as the rivers and inlets of the south coast of the province.
Binomial name: [Cornus nuttallii Aud. ex T.&G. (western flowering or Pacific dogwood)]