Someone told me that this is NOT the flowering dogwood. It is a disease resistant dogwood native to China. The flowers look very similar to the Florida dogwood. This may be used to hybrid disease resistant flowering dogwood.

Perhaps you are showing us some variant of Kousa dogwood, although I think the bracts shown in your photo are more reflexed than is typical of that species. It sure looks 'Cornus-ey'.

+oM

This is not a Kousa dogwood.

This is another species from different regions. I am now told that it is Cornus multinervosa. I hope that link works.

Sure enough! Nice-looking plant. but then, most Cornus are!

+oM

wisconsitom, is everyone gone or what? I feel there is much less people now. This transition could be traumatizing for some.

wisconsitom, I have not seen bboy around ...

I saw BBoy here in the trees forum, can't remember which thread though, sorry!

Yeah, I think B is around. I'll tell you though, this new format put me off too. In fact, I could not log in for the first day or so, although I pretty much found it was operator error. I'd forgotten changing my own GW password at some point, so I was getting rejected.

Also true, I see a lot of new names. not sure how this is going to end up. I'm the type that basically gets annoyed by things like a website called "Houzz". There's enough inane misspelling in pop culture now. No need to promote it. Maybe more people should try something new, and learn how to spell, learn how to read-stuff like that!

wisconsitom, it would be so wonderful if the top section of the houzz interface changes to a picture of gardenweb when we are on gardenweb forums.

wisconsitom, how do leaves of American and Asian dogwoods differ?