Dogwood Fact Sheet

If carefully treated a mature dogwood tree species such as the flowering dogwood may reach 40 feet in height.

Dogwood fact sheet.

Dogwood canker discula destructiva is a fungal disease that causes leaf and twig blights and trunk cankers. This disease can kill flowering dogwood but fortunately it seems to occur at higher elevations than in south carolina. The tree displays medium growth averaging between 13 and 24 inches annually. This behavior creates thickets.

Dogwood can be found in the evergreen forests or on the edges of deciduous forests. Cornus racemosalam gray dogwood is a thickly branched slow growing dogwood seldom more than 6 feet high at maturity. There are 30 to 50 species of dogwood that are native to temperate areas of north america and eurasia. It grows on fertile loamy soil in areas that provide enough moisture and shade.

Its flowers which bloom in june or july are white and loosely clustered and its white fruit which appears in september and october is set off by bright red fruit stalks. Dogwood is a type of flowering tree that belongs to the family cornaceae. The deeply ridged and broken bark resembles alligator hide. The growth habit is upright rounded but where stems are in contact with the ground roots are formed.

The leaves are opposite one another and from 3 to 6 inches long. Silky dogwood is a large shrub often 6 10 feet in height. Depending on the species of dogwood you plant you may have a short stout bush or a 25 foot tall tree.