*Japanese dogwood
*Cornus kousa
JAPANESE DOGWOOD
Cornaceae
Asia
Location: map coordinates A-21 (on Loop Road, southeast of Football Stadium), N 39°11'18'' W 75°32'34''
Planting history: planted 11/1/12. Source: Chester River Landscaping. Gift from Arbor Day Foundation.
Description:
*Non-native species (not native to Delaware)
JAPANESE DOGWOOD
Cornaceae
Asia
Location: map coordinates A-21 (on Loop Road, southeast of Football Stadium), N 39°11'18'' W 75°32'34''
Planting history: planted 11/1/12. Source: Chester River Landscaping. Gift from Arbor Day Foundation.
Description:
- small- to medium-sized deciduous tree
- etymology: Cornus = Latin for horn (which is hard; referring to the wood); kousa = the Japanese name
- leaves opposite (as in most dogwoods); leaf veins arcuate (curve towards the tip, parallel to the leaf edges)
- flowers small, in a cluster surrounded by 4 large white bracts that are commonly mistaken for the petals (bracts pointed, not rounded as in the native flowering dogwood C. florida,); produced after the leaves emerge (unlike flowering dogwood, which blooms ca 1 month earlier, before the leaves emerge)
- fruit resembles a big raspberry; round, pinkish-red, ca 1” wide, formed of fused ovaries; edible, but usually left for birds
- resistant to dogwood anthracnose disease, which affects the native dogwood C. florida
*Non-native species (not native to Delaware)
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