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CORNUS
Commonly known as Chinese dogwood
Genus of about 60 species of mainly deciduous shrubs and small trees from grasslands, thickets, woodland, rocky slopes and swamps mainly in northern temperate areas.
Tthe species have been used as food and medicine and in manufacture of small implements and cutting boards. The wood is beautiful, fine-grained and hard.
The "dogwood' name might have come from the "dags" (daggers, skewers and arrows) made from the slender stems. Fruits were known as "dogberries".
Two species are represented in the UK. C. mas is a widely found introduction, C sanguinea a native extending particularly on chalk as far north as the Midlands.
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Deciduous - ovate, wavy-margined leaves to 8cm (3in) long
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Green
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Shades of pink - All shades of pink through to Carmine (red) -
Height - to 6m (20ft) -
Spread - to 5m (16ft)
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Tree - green flowers in flower heads to 1cm (½in) across surrounded by white bracts 2.5-5cm (1-2in) long followed by fleshy fruits
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Hardy - cold winter - Hardy in most places throughout the UK even in severe winters. May not withstand open/exposed sites or central/northern locations. Plant can withstand temperatures down to -15°C (5°F) -
Full sun - shelter from strong winds -
Partial shade -
Additional Features - Pests & Diseases - - none -
Place of origin - garden origin. Netherlands -
Hardiness - Fully hardy -
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Seasonal Interest - Autumn -
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Summer
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Soil Conditions - Fertile well drained soil - - humus-rich
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Neutral to acid soil
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Tree Shape - Broadly conical -
Cornus (Flowering) - Growing Guide
- Positioning
- Planting
- Maintenance - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Propagation
- Cornus capitata seed collection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Diseases
- Cornus capitata - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Cornus kousa 'Satomi' - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Cornus kousa ‘Doubloon’ - Video Tip ondemand_video
Shrubs and Trees - Seeds - 1) Collecting Seeds
- When is the right time to collect seeds?
- When are seeds actually ripe and ready for collection?
- Magnolia seed collection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Cornus capitata seed collection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Rhododendron seed collecting - Video Tip ondemand_video
Shrubs and Trees - Seeds - 2) Storing Seeds
Shrubs and Trees - Seeds - 3) Planting Seeds
Trees - Care Guide
- How to plant a tree - Video Tip ondemand_video
- How to plant a tree
- Checking ties - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Restaking fallen young tree - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Fallen old tree - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Spring pruning - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing side shoots - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Deer protection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Weed Spraying - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing Ivy - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Tree Survey - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Crown uplift - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing shoots below graft - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing peeling bark - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Maintaining variegation - Video Tip ondemand_video
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CORNUS canadensis >
Commonly known as: Bunchberry, Creeping dogwood.
attractive ground cover with a profusion of white flower bracts
CORNUS alba >
Commonly known as: Red-barked dogwood.
Green leaved dogwood which is happiest in wet or boggy conditions, red bark in winter
CORNUS alba 'Aurea' >
Commonly known as: Golden dogwood.
Leaves greenish-yellow turning golden yellow in autumn, red stems
CORNUS alba 'Elegantissima' >
Commonly known as: Silver variegated dogwood.
Margined and mottled white
CORNUS amomum 'Blue Cloud' >
Commonly known as: Dogwood.
Purple stems give good winter colour. Blue berries in late summer-autumn
CORNUS sanguinea >
Commonly known as: Common dogwood, Dogberry.
greenish with red flushed stems and purple autumn colour
CORNUS sanguinea 'Midwinter Fire' >
Commonly known as: Common dogwood, Dogberry.
Branches orange-yellow and red in winter, an attractive new cultivar
CORNUS stolonifera 'Flaviramea' >
Commonly known as: Yellow-stemmed dogwood.
Yellow stemmed dogwood which makes an excellent bog plant
CORNUS alternifolia 'Argentea' >
Commonly known as: Green osier, Pagoda dogwood.
One of the very best silver variegated shrubs which is sadly slow growing and difficult to propagate
CORNUS angustata 'Empress of China' >
Commonly known as: Dogwood.
(syn. 'Elsbry') - graceful evergreen. Profuse, creamy white bracts
CORNUS capitata >
Commonly known as: Bentham's cornel, Himalayan dogwood.
Greenish-white flowers red strawberry fruit
CORNUS controversa >
Commonly known as: Giant dogwood, Wedding cake tree.
Cream flowers, black fruits and rich purple-red autumn colour
CORNUS controversa 'Gosia' >
Commonly known as: Giant dogwood, Wedding cake tree.
Tiered branches and leaves variegated yellow tinged with pink
CORNUS controversa 'Variegata' >
Commonly known as: Giant dogwood, Wedding cake tree.
Striking and very scarce slow growing variegated form with horizontal branching
CORNUS 'Eddie's White Wonder' >
Commonly known as: Dogwood.
RHS Plant of the Decade 1963 - 1972. Hardy shrub producing large white bracts, good autumn colour
CORNUS florida >
Commonly known as: American boxwood, Flowering dogwood.
North American flowering dogwood. Each flowerhead is enclosed in 4 white petal-like bracts
CORNUS florida 'Cherokee Brave' >
Commonly known as: American boxwood, Flowering dogwood.
New growth is a burgundy-red turning dark green with age. Flowers are pinkish-red darkening as they mature
CORNUS florida 'Cherokee Chief' >
Commonly known as: American boxwood, Flowering dogwood.
(syn. 'Royal Red') - foliage scarlet-red in spring and autumn, bronzy green in summer. Bracts deep ruby pink.
CORNUS florida 'Cloud Nine' >
Commonly known as: American boxwood, Flowering dogwood.
Large snowy-white bracts. Free-flowering even when young
CORNUS florida 'Daybreak' >
Commonly known as: American boxwood, Flowering dogwood.
A startling new variety, bright green leaves margined in creamy-white. In the autumn the creamy-white parts of the leaves turn pink to deep red
CORNUS florida 'Rainbow' >
Commonly known as: American boxwood, Rainbow dogwood.
Compact shrub with deep green leaves splashed yellow. Autumn colours pass from pink, lavender-blue and finally purple-red
CORNUS florida 'Red Giant' >
Commonly known as: American boxwood, Flowering dogwood.
Large deep pink bracts tipped with white
CORNUS florida subsp. urbiniana >
Commonly known as: Mexican flowering dogwood.
Very unusual showy white bracts clasped at the tips in attractive spirals
CORNUS hongkongensis >
Commonly known as: Hong Kong dogwood.
Glossy dark green leaves are coppery-red when young. Cascades of flowerheads with creamy-white bracts
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