Flowering Dogwood Fact Sheet

It grows on fertile loamy soil in areas that provide enough moisture and shade.

Flowering dogwood fact sheet.

It can be trained with one central trunk or as a picturesque multi trunked tree. Dogwood can be found in the evergreen forests or on the edges of deciduous forests. The deeply ridged and broken bark resembles alligator hide. Opposite simple 3 to 5 inches long oval in shape with an entire or slightly wavy margin arcuately veined green above and slightly paler below.

These species vary wildly from shrubs to deciduous temperate trees and evergreens. Flowering dogwood has large showy. Buds are onion shaped and their presence makes the tree easy to identify even in winter. Photographs of flower buds of flowering dogwood.

In mid april the buds have begun to enlarge and open slightly. Other species can be quite different. The state tree of virginia flowering dogwood grows 20 to 35 feet tall and spreads 25 to 30 feet fig. For example the blackfruit cornel native to california has small yellow green blooms and a fruit which turns black when ripe.

The flowers consist of four bracts which subtend the small head of yellow flowers. Tree facts bud buds bark leaves fruit flowers twigs seeds bud scar leaf scar. One of the most common species and the one about which you ve most likely heard is the flowering dogwood. Flowering dogwood cornaceae cornus florida l.

Very small and inconspicuous tight cluster but surrounded by 4 very showy large white occasionally pink bracts 2 inches in diameter appearing in mid spring. The state tree of virginia the flowering dogwood has conspicuous white to light yellow flowers that offer magnificent blooms in spring. There are 30 to 50 species of dogwood that are native to temperate areas of north america and eurasia.