page_title: Cornus mas
section_title: Fruit
hierarchical_section_title: Cornus mas / Uses / Fruit
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch&#x3a;&#32; Cornus mas, Kornelkirsche, samenEnglish&#x3a;&#32; Cornus mas, Cornelian cherry, seedsFrançais&#x202f;&#x3a;&#32; Cornus mas, Cornouiller mâle, graines
context_page_description: Cornus mas, the Cornelian cherry, European cornel or Cornelian cherry dogwood, is a species of flowering plant in the dogwood family Cornaceae, native to Southern Europe and Southwestern Asia.
context_section_description: The fruits when ripe on the plant bear a resemblance to coffee berries, and ripen in mid- to late summer. The fruit is edible, as used in  Eastern Europe, UK, and British Columbia, Canada, but the unripe fruit is astringent.  When ripe, the fruit is dark ruby red or a bright yellow. It has an acidic flavor which is best described as a mixture of cranberry and sour cherry; it is mainly used for making jam, makes an excellent sauce similar to cranberry sauce when pitted, and then boiled with sugar and orange, but also can be eaten dried. 
  In Azerbaijan and Armenia, the fruit is used for distilling vodka, in Austria and German Alps is used for distilling Dirndlbrand, in Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina it is distilled into rakia. In Turkey and Iran, it is eaten with salt as a snack in summer, and traditionally drunk in a cold drink called kızılcık şerbeti. Cultivars selected for fruit production in Ukraine have fruit up to four centimetres long.  It is eaten in Eastern Europe in many ways including as a traditional medicine.
  The fruit of C. mas (together with the fruit of C. officinalis) has a long history of use in traditional Chinese medicine in which it is known as shānzhūyú, 山茱萸 and used to retain the jing.
caption: Seeds and dried fruit – MHNT
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