Since this is our first spring in our new home, we are discovering what everything is still. This tree is absolutely beautiful but is in the wrong spot (growing into the roof) and we'd like to move it. I 'd also loe to know what it is so I can read up on how to care for it.
It is in bloom, but in winter has a pretty whitish, smooth bark that sheds itself when the weather warms up. It has a beaufiful shape, even when bare. A landscaper once told us it was a Japanese something or other...but I can't seem to find out what it is no matter how hard I look.
Here are some pictures:
https://www.adamfield.com/dump/pics/garden/dscn6963.jpg
https://www.adamfield.com/dump/pics/garden/dscn6965.jpg
https://www.adamfield.com/dump/pics/garden/dscn6966.jpg
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By no means am I an expert, but my best guess is that it is a breed of Japanese Dogwood, perhaps a hybrid. I believe Japanese Dogwoods usualy have waxy leaves, which leads me to believe that this might be a hybrid of some sort, if indeed it is a Japanese Dogwood.
Are there four petals on the flowers, and are the petals pointed? If your answer is yes to both of these questions you have some breed of Japanese Dogwood. If the petals of the flowers are heart shaped, you probably have a native flowering dogwood.
Hope this helps!
Are there four petals on the flowers, and are the petals pointed? If your answer is yes to both of these questions you have some breed of Japanese Dogwood. If the petals of the flowers are heart shaped, you probably have a native flowering dogwood.
Hope this helps!
I'm growing Cornus kousa chinensis and I wouldn't say mine looked the much like this tree. The leaves of my plants are darker and slimmer with a waxier sheen. Pictures 1 and 3 look like my Cornus mas in form and colour, except the leaves are again wider on this tree. The leaves of picture 3 do look a lot like dogwood leaves though, while picture 2 doesn't look like any dogwood I've seen, with its serated edges and hairs.Seth wrote:By no means am I an expert, but my best guess is that it is a breed of Japanese Dogwood, perhaps a hybrid. I believe Japanese Dogwoods usualy have waxy leaves, which leads me to believe that this might be a hybrid of some sort, if indeed it is a Japanese Dogwood.
Are there four petals on the flowers, and are the petals pointed? If your answer is yes to both of these questions you have some breed of Japanese Dogwood. If the petals of the flowers are heart shaped, you probably have a native flowering dogwood.
Hope this helps!
I'm hardly an expert either but I'd also have to say it was a hybrid of dogwood if it's at all dogwood. I could easily be wrong though and probably am.