Dogwood Tree Varieties Australia

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Dogwood tree varieties australia. Cornus kousa wolf eyes an interesting cultivar with green foliage margined with white creamy white flowers. Satomi offers heavenly pink bracts in spring and is an upright spreading cultivar that. Himalayan dogwood cornus capitata the himalayan dogwood s alternate names include benthams cornel himalayan strawberry tree and evergreen dogwood. Cornus eddie s white wonder.
Dogwood tree types of the 17 species of dogwood native to north america the four most common garden types are native flowering dogwoods pacific dogwood cornelian cherry dogwood and kousa dogwoods. This is an evergreen plant that can be grown as a tree or large shrub. A beautiful small deciduous feature tree and is extremely showy when in bloom. Flowering season is late spring weeks after the tree puts on foliage again.
Grows well in sun to part shade and has a nice broad layered habit. It is an evergreen tree that will grow to about 40 feet tall with gray green leaves. As its name suggests each leaf has a band that resembles a gold star on this particular cultivar. It has become naturalized in parts of australia including the states of victoria and new south wales.
The latter two are introduced species that have earned a place in american gardens because they are more disease resistant than native species. A native of japan korea and parts of china this offers white flower bracts in late spring. Cornus kousa trinity star is regarded as a semi dwarf cultivar well suited to smaller gardens. What appear to be four petaled white flowers are actually bracts spread open below the cluster of inconspicuous yellow green flowers.
Its blooms are white and its leaves grow very densely.