Stellar Pink Dogwood Tree Pictures

Kousa the japanese dogwood.

Stellar pink dogwood tree pictures. This vigorous growing tree wants to be the star of the show. Besides leaf color with brighter color all other attributes are identical to the stellar pink variety. It has a uniform width from top to. The stellar pink dogwood grows into a small tree between 15 and 20 feet tall and just as wide.

To my eyes stellar pink s flowers are softer and more refined than the pink dogwood cornus florida rubra. Florida a native of the american southeastern states and c. This cultivar was bred to address the problems with dogwood anthracnose which decimated a lot of dogwoods during the last few decades of the twentieth century. The bracts remain in good condition for several weeks.

Butterflies love the flowers. It is noted for its vigorous habit large bracted flowers profuse bloom and resistance to anthracnose and dogwood borer. The tree is a great landscape tree and facts about pruning and taking care of a dogwood tree can be found at dogwood tree planting. The stellar series blooms slightly later and lacks fruit.

It is a small deciduous tree with a dense upright habit. When young it is vase shaped but as it matures it takes on a broad pyramidal habit with a flat top and with wide sweeping branches that give a graceful profile to the tree. Affordable and search from millions of royalty free images photos and vectors. All grow as small sized trees 7 10 m tall.

The flowering dogwood is the state tree. Planting ideas stellar pink dogwood attracts birds to the garden with its showy fruit. Developed by the rutgers university breeding program this is a stable mutation or sport of the popular stellar pink variety of dogwood tree that is the result of crossing two varieties cornus kousa and cornus florida. Stellar pink is a hybrid dogwood cornus florida x cornus kousa that was developed by elwin r.

Red pink and white flowering dogwood trees are beautiful trees in the spring the cherokee chief and japanese kousa trees seem good at attracting wild birds. The trees are a cross between c. Growing stellar pink dogwood trees. Elwin orton of rutgers university resulted in the rutgers stellar series dogwoods considered highly resistant to dogwood borer and moderately to highly resistant to dogwood anthracnose.

Description care of stellar pink dogwood dogwoods are small understory trees and stellar pink is no exception. Rutgers university reports that the. This cultivar has exhibited superior winter hardiness and has. The white pink or reddish bracts number four to seven and may be rounded or pointed depending on the species and or cultivar.

This beautiful tree is the perfect lawn specimen to grace any garden big or small or. Download dogwood trees stock photos. Breeding efforts by dr. It can be expected to grow to 20 25 tall with a similar spread at maturity.

In some cultivars the bracts overlap lending the bloom a saucer like appearance.