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Foliage during autumn Dogwood trees in Nagano, Japan. Cornus florida is easily propagated by seeds, which are sown in the fall into prepared rows of sawdust or sand, and emerge in the spring. Germination rates for good clean seed should be near 100% if seed dormancy is first overcome by cold stratification treatments for 90 to 120 days at 4 °C ...
An epicormic shoot is a shoot growing from an epicormic bud, which lies underneath the bark of a trunk, stem, or branch of a plant. Epicormic buds lie dormant beneath the bark, their growth suppressed by hormones from active shoots higher up the plant. Under certain conditions, they grow into active shoots, such as when damage occurs to higher ...
Cornus alba, the red-barked, white or Siberian dogwood, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cornaceae, native to Siberia, northern China and Korea. It is a large deciduous surculose (suckering) shrub that can be grown as a small tree. As a popular ornamental used in landscaping its notable features include the red stems in fall ...
Cornus. In species such as this Cornus × unalaschkensis, the tiny four-petaled flowers are clustered in a tightly packed, flattened cyme at the center of four showy white petal-like bracts. Cornus is a genus of about 30–60 species [Note 1] of woody plants in the family Cornaceae, commonly known as dogwoods or cornels, which can generally be ...
Cornus canadensis is a slow-growing herbaceous perennial growing 10–20 centimetres (4–8 inches) tall, generally forming a carpet-like mat. The above-ground shoots rise from slender creeping rhizomes that are placed 2.5–7.5 cm (1–3 in) deep in the soil, and form clonal colonies under trees. The vertically produced above-ground stems are ...
Cornus kousa. Cornus subg. Syncarpea. Cornus kousa is a small deciduous tree 8–12 m (26–39 ft) tall, in the flowering plant family Cornaceae. Common names include kousa, kousa dogwood, [2] Chinese dogwood, [3][4] Korean dogwood, [4][5][6] and Japanese dogwood. [2][4] Synonyms are Benthamia kousa and Cynoxylon kousa. [7]
Description. The small flowers are in a dense cluster surrounded by large white bracts. It is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree, reaching 6–23 metres (20–75 feet) tall, often with a canopy spread of 6 m (20 ft). Its habit varies based on the level of sunlight; in full sun it will have a short trunk with a crown as wide as it is tall ...
The leaves are 4–8 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 – 3 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long and 1–4 cm (1 ⁄ 2 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) wide, and typically have 3 or 4 pairs of lateral veins, fewer than other dogwood species. [4] The plant grows upright with a rounded habit, oppositely arranged leaves, and terminally born flowers.