Cornus florida is a four-season small tree noted for its flower, fruit, foliage, fall color, bark, flower bud, and layered branching ornamental features, but often performing far below its potential when sited in neutral to alkaline pH soils. The flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) has reddish brown bark that is commonly used to create tool handles. It can be trained with one central trunk or as a picturesque multi-trunked tree. 0000004493 00000 n Trees are also susceptible to powdery mildew, leaf spot, canker, root rot and leaf, and twig blight  crown canker, bacterial leaf scorch, powdery mildew, septoria leaf spot. The slow growing and compact wood is covered with a rough and brownish bark used for many purposes. Deer eat the leaves and twigs. Characteristics. 0000000016 00000 n Similar to Cornus mas but blooms slightly earlier and has handsome bark in gray, brown, and orange. A member of the clearwing moth family, the dogwood borer, Synanthedon scitula (Harris), is one of the most destructive pests of flowering dogwood, Cornus florida L., affecting plantings in homes and parks (Johnson and Lyon 1991). ... You can tell a dogwood by its distinctive bark, which is broken into small squarish blocks on mature trees. rubra. ... even the bark of mature trees gets a lovely gray checkered pattern that is attractive & distinctive in the winter garden & forest (leading to one of our all time favorite bad puns - you can always tell a Dogwood by its bark! 0000025670 00000 n 0000001415 00000 n Cornus is a genus of about 30–60 species of woody plants in the family Cornaceae, commonly known as dogwoods, which can generally be distinguished by their blossoms, berries, and distinctive bark. 0 Cornus Florida, or Flowering Dogwood, is a small, deciduous, flowering tree that may grow 15 to 25 feet tall and 4 to 6 inches in diameter. The fruits are food for birds. Cynoxylon floridum Britton & Shafer Swida candidi… 2��*�'Z��㘧�It��4�C �-.�&{��oA��x��D��+(�}b�!�em�7� Cornus florida. Insects, Diseases, or Other Plant Problems:   Calico scale, dogwood borer, dogwood sawfly, Japanese maple scale, leafhoppers, oyster shell scale. It produces edible red, strawberry-like fruit in good summers and bright red autumn leaf colour. Tincture of fresh bark. Kintoki is a heavy-blooming, slightly smaller tree. The dried root-bark is antiperiodic, astringent, diaphoretic, mildly stimulant and tonic. Opposite, simple, oval to ovate, acuminate, cuneate to rotund, entire, dull green above, glaucous beneath and pubescent on the veins, 6-7 vein pairs, 2.5-6" long; fall color red to reddish purple. Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day), Partial Shade (Direct sunlight only part of the day, 2-6 hours). Several good cultivars are available. (Range map provided courtesy of the USDA website and is displayed here in accordance with their Policies) I show how to identify dogwood by the flower, leaf and bark. Celestial Dogwood (Cornus x ‘Rutdan') - The white bracts overlap and have a green tinge, although they become pure white after a few days. The fall color depends on site and seed source but on most sun grown plants will be red to maroon. As the tree ages, the bark becomes very scaly to finely blocky. This varied group of plants give great garden value. Leaves. Cornus Florida is a tree. Soil Preference. The small tree also produces fruit in the form of a cluster of red drupes that mature in the fall. The Cornus florida contains more extract and gum, than the Peruvian bark, and is more soluble in water; while the latter, containing more resin, is more easily soluble in alcohol. It is in flower in May, and the seeds ripen in November. 0000004985 00000 n Shrubby Cornus alba , C. sericea and C. sanguinea are grown for their vivid winter stem colour, while shrubby C.mas (the cornelian cherry) is grown for its winter flowers and summer fruits. 243 29 HEIGHT: 5.0m WIDTH: 5.0m *height & width at maturity. endstream endobj 244 0 obj<>/Metadata 29 0 R/PieceInfo<>>>/Pages 28 0 R/PageLayout/OneColumn/OCProperties<>/StructTreeRoot 31 0 R/Type/Catalog/LastModified(D:20060808142517)/PageLabels 26 0 R>> endobj 245 0 obj<>/PageElement<>>>/Name(HeaderFooter)/Type/OCG>> endobj 246 0 obj<>/ColorSpace<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC]/ExtGState<>>>/Type/Page>> endobj 247 0 obj<> endobj 248 0 obj<> endobj 249 0 obj<> endobj 250 0 obj<> endobj 251 0 obj<> endobj 252 0 obj[/ICCBased 265 0 R] endobj 253 0 obj<> endobj 254 0 obj<> endobj 255 0 obj<> endobj 256 0 obj<> endobj 257 0 obj<>stream Celestial Dogwood (Cornus x ‘Rutdan') - The white bracts overlap and have a green tinge, although they become pure white after a few days. Origin: Cornus alba — native to Siberia and Northern China, Cornus sanguinea native to Europe and Western Asia, Cornus sericea native to Oregon and most of North America, excluding the south from Texas to Florida. 0000008590 00000 n It grows up to 10 M. Best used for Fever. In addition to the above traits the tree also has attractive branches and bark, which can be dark grey, black or brown bark. pendula, Cornus florida var. Slender, green to purple, sometimes coated with fine powder, pubescent when young, later glabrous; bark broken into small squarish and rectangular, grayish-brown to blackish blocks. Cornus florida Cornaceae. form a strategic partnership called N.C. It arguably may be the most beautiful of the native American flowering trees. %PDF-1.4 %���� It prefers moist, well-drained, organically rich, acidic soils in part shade. Cornus florida 'Rubra' has rosy pink flowers. The Dogwood flower, which is actually the petal-like bracts, is the state flower of North Carolina and the tree is found throughout the state, usually under larger forest trees.

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