Native Area: Natural variants are native to eastern North America in the same range as Cornus floridaĪverage Size at Maturity: 20 – 25 ft tall, 20 – 25 ft spread Other red cultivars of other species can be differentiated base on their bract, leaf, bark, and fruit characteristics. Identifying Features: Red Dogwood’s reddish petaloid bracts with notched tips will make it very easy to identify it either as the natural variant of Flowering Dogwood if the red is more subtle or a cultivated variety when the red or dark pink is more pronounced. Other Common Names: Red Flowering Dogwood, Pink Flowering Dogwood It prefers partial shade, particularly in the south, but will tolerate full sun in northern areas. There is often a whitish callus (patch of tissue) at the tip, and they typically fade to white near the base of the bracts. The inflorescences differ in having dark pink petal-like bracts instead of white, though they have the same conspicuous notched tips. Leaves are similar but emerge burgundy-colored in the spring, then turn green, and in the fall, they turn a nice rusty red before falling off. The trunk and fruits are like those of its parent plant. Red Dogwood is a natural color variation of the Flowering Dogwood with red-tinged bracts that, according to plant authorities, is simply an informal variation of Cornus florida.Ĭultivars were created early on from these natural variants to produce stunningly beautiful trees with various shades of showy red ‘flowers’ (petal-like bracts). Native Area: Sporadic occurrences in Eastern Mexico from Neuvo Leon south to VeracruzĪverage Size at Maturity: 10 – 20 ft tall, 10 – 20 ft spread This fusion of the bract tips is not seen in any other dogwood, making it the easiest dogwood to identify. Identifying Features: Mexican Flowering Dogwood is easily recognizable by its stunning inflorescence with white petaloid bracts that remain fused at their tips when they come out of the bud and encase the inflorescence with uniquely twisted bracts. Other Common Names: Magic Dogwood, Mexican Dogwood ![]() It prefers moist acidic soil and will not tolerate alkaline soil or hard freezing temperatures. A uniquely beautiful feature not seen in other dogwoods. The white petaloid bracts remain fused at their tips when they grow out of the bud, creating unique shapes of fused and twisted bracts that encase the inflorescence. Its difference is in its stunning inflorescence. This naturally rare Mexican variant is now a popular garden ornamental for its beauty and uniqueness.īeing Cornus florida, it shares most of the same features as Flowering Dogwood in terms of its form, leaves, and fruits. According to plant authorities, it is an informal variant or form of Cornus florida. Mexican Flowering Dogwood has been called a subspecies of Cornus florida or its own Cornus urbiniana. Images by Fast-Growing-Trees, Combined by Lyrae Willis for Tree Vitalize Native Area: Eastern North America from southeastern Canada south throughout the eastern USA, west to eastern Kansas and Texas, and south to Veracruz, MexicoĪverage Size at Maturity: 20 – 35 ft (to 66 ft) tall, 20 – 35 ft spread It differs from Kousa Dogwood, which usually has very pointy petaloid bracts that are never notched, and from Pacific Dogwood, which has no notches in its four or six slightly pointy bracts and whose fruits are pressed close together rather than spreading apart. They can also be identified by the flattened hairs on both sides of the leaves, erect hairs on the lower side in the vein axils, and the spreading red drupes that are round in cross-section. ![]() Identifying Features: Flowering Dogwood has abundant inflorescences with large white petaloid bracts with notched tips and rich dark green, usually ovate and long-pointed leaves that turn vibrant colors in the fall. Other Common Names: White Flowering Dogwood, American Dogwood, Florida Dogwood, Indian Arrowwood, White Dogwood, False Boxwood It grows on forest edges in full sun to partial shade in rich, well-drained soil. The half-inch roundish red (rarely yellow) drupes spread away from each other, and remain all winter, feeding wildlife. Inflorescences contain 15-30 cream or yellowish-green flowers surrounded by four large, showy white petal-like bracts with notched tips, sometimes tinged with red. ![]() They turn beautiful shades of orange-red, red, or burgundy in fall. The upper surface is dark green with flattened hairs. The lower surface is whitish with flattened hairs and tufts of erect hairs in vein axils. ![]() Young branches and twigs are green, maroon, or red with flattened hairs and swollen maroon lenticels.ĭeciduous leaves are ovate to elliptical with long-pointed tips. It’s a single-stem tree with gray to gray-brown bark that develops blocky rectangular plates, like the skin on an alligator’s back. Flowering Dogwood is famous among dogwoods for its abundance of big beautiful white ‘flowers.’
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