Variegated Stellar Pink Dogwood Tree

A magnificent landscape specimen for small gardens or woodland settings.

Variegated stellar pink dogwood tree. The fully branched habit provides layers of lush green foliage from bottom to top. This superb new dogwood offers exciting color. Variegated stellar pinktmis a stable mutation of the popular stellar pink variety of dogwood tree that is the result of crossing two varieties cornus kousa and cornus florida. Profuse large overlapping blush pink flower like bracts cover this small but vigorous tree in early spring.

In the spring this elegant small tree boasts light pink star shaped flowers set against very attractive green and white variegated foliage. A sterile cultivar that produces no fruit. Variegated stellar pink in full sun. A versatile small tree for lawn or woodland plantings.

To create stellar pink the only pink flowering tree of the series orton crossed japanese kousa dogwood with a red blooming american flowering dogwood named sweetwater fast forward to the 21 st century and a nurseryman named dennie hill discovers a variegated branch on one of his stellar pinks. The new cultivar is trademarked variegated stellar pink dogwood and originated as a bud mutation which gave rise to a branch from a stellar pink dogwood tree. Growing 15 20 tall with a similar spread this dogwood exhibits strong growth and excellent resistance to dogwood anthracnose. Rutgers is introducing an exciting variation of our famous and highly popular stellar pink dogwood.

Each leaf is edged in white with overlapping hues of green and white turning a brilliant red purple in the fall.