Flowering Dogwood Fact Sheet

A flowering dogwood tree s flowers aren t flowers.

Flowering dogwood fact sheet.

There are 30 to 50 species of dogwood that are native to temperate areas of north america and eurasia. Opposite simple 3 to 5 inches long oval in shape with an entire or slightly wavy margin arcuately veined green above and slightly paler below. One of the most intriguing of all dogwood tree facts is that what you see on these beautiful trees are not actually blooms at all but bracts a type of leaf. Very small and inconspicuous tight cluster but surrounded by 4 very showy large white occasionally pink bracts 2 inches in diameter appearing in.

The leaves are opposite one another and from 3 to 6 inches long. The state tree of virginia the flowering dogwood has conspicuous white to light yellow flowers that offer magnificent blooms in spring. The northern most natural stand in the state occurs along the barringtonrochester town. The deeply ridged and broken bark resembles alligator hide.

For example the blackfruit cornel native to california has small yellow green blooms and a fruit which turns black when ripe thus the name. Flowering dogwood cornaceae cornus florida l. Dogwood can be found in the evergreen forests or on the edges of deciduous forests. Dogwood is a type of flowering tree that belongs to the family cornaceae.

Flowering dogwood has large showy. Cornus florida l flowering dogwood is a small bushy tree which rarely attains a height of more than 40 feet or a diameter of 12 to 18 inches. Other species can be quite different. The native flowering dogwood cornus florida is a popular ornamental tree that thrives well in the warmer areas of new hampshire.