Stellar Pink Dogwood Tree Pictures

It is the state tree of north carolina.
Stellar pink dogwood tree pictures. Flowering dogwood has a low branching habit with a flattish crown. This is a good specimen tree for a location with acidic soil and afternoon shade. Pink dogwood dogwood trees flowering trees deciduous trees trees and shrubs tree sillouette green giant arborvitae bottle trees planting shrubs. This varied group of plants give great garden value.
Breeding efforts by dr. The trees are a cross between c. The stellar series blooms slightly later and lacks fruit. It has a uniform width from top to.
Kousa the japanese dogwood. Flowering cornus dogwood trees are grown for their showy coloured bracts in late spring and early summer. 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. Shrubby cornus alba c.
It is a small deciduous tree with a dense upright habit. Description care of stellar pink dogwood dogwoods are small understory trees and stellar pink is no exception. People also love these ideas. To my eyes stellar pink s flowers are softer and more refined than the pink dogwood cornus florida rubra.
This cultivar was bred to address the problems with dogwood anthracnose which decimated a lot of dogwoods during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Saved by pam of eastlake victorian. Developed by the rutgers university breeding program this is a stable mutation or sport of the popular stellar pink variety of dogwood tree that is the result of crossing two varieties cornus kousa and cornus florida. Butterflies love the flowers.
Landscape boarders landscape curbing landscape rocks landscape steps landscape timbers lawn and landscape fantasy landscape landscape. As part of the stellar series of dogwoods released by rutgers university. This vigorous growing tree wants to be the star of the show. Besides leaf color with brighter color all other attributes are identical to the stellar pink variety.
Dark green leaves 3 to 6 inches long turn an attractive red in fall. This species and the pacific. Hardy in usda zones 5 through 9 stellar pink is a sterile tree that doesn t bear flowers and cannot produce fruits. Stellar pink is a hybrid dogwood cornus florida x cornus kousa that was developed by elwin r.
This cultivar has exhibited superior winter hardiness and has. Flowering dogwood is a small deciduous tree that blooms with white pink or red flowers in early spring. It is noted for its vigorous habit large bracted flowers profuse bloom and resistance to anthracnose and dogwood borer. Florida a native of the american southeastern states and c.
Planting ideas stellar pink dogwood attracts birds to the garden with its showy fruit. Hybrid flowering dogwood stellar pink cornus x rutgersensis rutgan cornus stellar pink genus. Elwin orton of rutgers university resulted in the rutgers stellar series dogwoods considered highly resistant to dogwood borer and moderately to highly resistant to dogwood anthracnose.