Chinese Dogwood Tree Facts

Description the kousa dogwood is a handsome small to medium sized tree reaching a mature height of 30 feet.

Chinese dogwood tree facts. Our pot grown chinese dogwood trees can be planted at any time of the year. For white flowers chinensis and china girl are particularly popular. The chinese dogwood prefers full sun and is able to grow well in a variety of soil types. Cornus kousa chinensis best soil.

Planting cornus kousa var. Leaves gain a reddish scarlet tint bloom. Flowering dogwoods produce red fruit in autumn. Dark green fall color.

Chinese dogwood tree information scientific name. If carefully treated a mature dogwood tree species such as the flowering dogwood may reach 40 feet in height. Milky way is a. Large white bracts with green.

Dogwood trees are native to north america. Range from white through pink to. Common names include kousa kousa dogwood chinese dogwood korean dogwood and japanese dogwood. It was introduced in the u.

Cornus kousa is a small deciduous tree 8 12 m 26 39 ft tall in the flowering plant family cornaceae. Synonyms are benthamia kousa and cynoxylon kousa. The tree displays medium growth averaging between 13 and 24 inches annually. White dogwood pink dogwood and chinese dogwood amongst others.

It is a plant native to east asia including korea china and japan. Chinese flowering dogwood history. Sometimes referred to as the chinese dogwood this asian cousin to our native flowering dogwood can be used as a specimen plant or in shrub borders. The chinese dogwood is a very valuable deciduous shrub or small tree for solitary plantings.

Tolerant of all but shallow soils. Full sun growth rate. Choosing growing dogwood. From june to july there are numerous yellowish white flowers which are actually bracts.

Depending on the species of dogwood you plant you may have a short stout bush or a 25 foot tall tree. They are distinctive with four petal like bracts around the central flowers. Dogwood tree facts 01 scientific name. The chinese flowering dogwood comes from asia particularly china korea and japan.

Depending on the age of the kousa dogwood the trees take on a different appearance. With its wide sweeping growth a height of up to 5 metres and a width of 3 m it should earn a place of honour in gardens. Start by removing weeds and grass within a metre of your desired planting hole then dig a square hole as deep as your root mass and roughly 1 5x as wide.