Ate my first Dogwood fruit today.

I've seen the fruit before, but I had never made the connection between the flowering Dogwood (Kousa) trees with the brightly orange-red fruit.  Then last week I recalled that the tree around the corner from me, which had orange-red fruit hanging, was a Dogwood.

A light bulb went off above my head.

So of course, I searched online, and learned that it was edible.

Today, I tried my first Dogwood fruit, and here's my take:

The inside tastes great (something similar to Persimmons (Kaki)), but the outer skin is bitter like bitter squash -- suck the fruit out and trash the rest, including the cherry-sided pit.