Variegated Stellar Pink Dogwood Tree
May 12 2016 exciting new variety provides brilliant color from spring through fall.
Variegated stellar pink dogwood tree. In the spring this elegant small tree boasts light pink star shaped flowers set against very attractive green and white variegated foliage. Rutgers is introducing an exciting variation of our famous and highly popular stellar pink dogwood. Seashell pink flowers smother the branches in spring followed by decorative bright red fruit. Profuse large overlapping blush pink flower like bracts cover this small but vigorous tree in early spring.
The foliage turns pink and red in the fall. Another is rosy teacups with cupped blossoms and. Variegated stellar pink in full sun. Dogwood is easy to grow requiring sun and moist soil.
A sterile cultivar that produces no fruit. Cornus x variegated stellar pink us pp. Growing 15 20 tall with a similar spread this dogwood exhibits strong growth and excellent resistance to dogwood. Large pink blossoms open in the spring attracting butterflies.
To create stellar pink the only pink flowering tree of the series orton crossed japanese kousa dogwood with a red blooming american flowering dogwood named sweetwater fast forward to the 21 st century and a nurseryman named dennie hill discovers a variegated branch on one of his stellar pinks. Its abundant flowers almost completely cover the tree in an overlapping manner. Stellar pink dogwood is a beautiful specimen tree. Birds are also attracted to this spectacular tree.
A versatile small tree for lawn or woodland plantings. This superb new dogwood offers exciting color. Variegated giant dogwood cornus controversa variegata a graceful small tree with horizontal branching and silver margined leaves. Growing 15 20 tall with a similar spread this dogwood exhibits strong growth and excellent resistance to dogwood anthracnose.
The new cultivar is trademarked variegated stellar pink dogwood and originated as a bud mutation which gave rise to a branch from a stellar pink dogwood tree. Variegated stellar pinktmis a stable mutation of the popular stellar pink variety of dogwood tree that is the result of crossing two varieties cornus kousa and cornus florida. Newer releases include a variegated stellar pink dogwood with leaves edged in creamy white that turn vivid shades of pink and purple in fall. Each leaf is edged in white with overlapping hues of green and white turning a brilliant red purple in the fall.
Plant in full sun to partial shade.