Cornus kousa (Kouse Dogwood) 2020 photo
Cornus kousa (Kouse Dogwood) 2020 photo - Chinese Dogwood, KORE-nus KOO-suh, Mature size: 15x15’, white, USDA Hardiness Zone 5, Michigan Bloom Month 6b, In Garden Bed D0 a75 for 20.2 YEARS (Melli). Planted in 2000.
Missouri Botanical Garden: Cornus kousa, commonly called Kousa dogwood, is a small, deciduous flowering tree or multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows 15-30’ tall, with a vase-shaped habit in the early years but eventually maturing to a more rounded form. Bloom occurs in late spring. The showy parts of the Kousa dogwood “flower” (3-5” across) are the four narrowly pointed petal-like white bracts which surround the center cluster of insignificant, yellowish-green, true flowers. Flowers are followed by berry-like fruits (to 1” diameter) which mature to a pinkish red in summer and persist into fall. Fruits are technically edible, but are usually left for the birds. Oval, pointed leaves (to 4” long) are dark green, but usually turns attractive shades of reddish-purple to scarlet in autumn. Mottled, exfoliating, tan and gray bark on mature trees is attractive in winter.
Red edible fruit resemples a strawberry. The Kousa dogwood is a small deciduous tree 8–12 m tall, native to eastern Asia. Like most dogwoods, it has opposite, simple leaves, 4–10 cm long. Dieback 2015. Now shrub like rather than tree like.
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Cornus kousa (Kouse Dogwood) 2020 photo
Cornus kousa (Kouse Dogwood) 2020 photo - Chinese Dogwood, KORE-nus KOO-suh, Mature size: 15x15’, white, USDA Hardiness Zone 5, Michigan Bloom Month 6b, In Garden Bed D0 a75 for 20.2 YEARS (Melli). Planted in 2000.
Missouri Botanical Garden: Cornus kousa, commonly called Kousa dogwood, is a small, deciduous flowering tree or multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows 15-30’ tall, with a vase-shaped habit in the early years but eventually maturing to a more rounded form. Bloom occurs in late spring. The showy parts of the Kousa dogwood “flower” (3-5” across) are the four narrowly pointed petal-like white bracts which surround the center cluster of insignificant, yellowish-green, true flowers. Flowers are followed by berry-like fruits (to 1” diameter) which mature to a pinkish red in summer and persist into fall. Fruits are technically edible, but are usually left for the birds. Oval, pointed leaves (to 4” long) are dark green, but usually turns attractive shades of reddish-purple to scarlet in autumn. Mottled, exfoliating, tan and gray bark on mature trees is attractive in winter.
Red edible fruit resemples a strawberry. The Kousa dogwood is a small deciduous tree 8–12 m tall, native to eastern Asia. Like most dogwoods, it has opposite, simple leaves, 4–10 cm long. Dieback 2015. Now shrub like rather than tree like.
Additional photos of this plant:
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