Variegated Stellar Pink Dogwood Tree

A sterile cultivar that produces no fruit.

Variegated stellar pink dogwood tree. A magnificent landscape specimen for small gardens or woodland settings. The foliage turns pink and red in the fall. Late spring brings sweet star shaped cotton candy pink flowers to your garden. The pink blossoms are very delicately colored and bloom so profusely that the tree looks like a pink cloud.

In fall the leaves turn a fabulous purple red mixture. And it has white bracts. Profuse large overlapping blush pink flower like bracts cover this small but vigorous tree in early spring. 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.

The only hybrid dogwood from the rutgers stellar series offering variegated leaf coloration brilliant fall colors abundant flowers bracts extremely healthy and a vigorous grower high disease resistance superior winter. Discovered in tennessee this fine variegated form of the stellar pink dogwood has rich dark stems and attractive white leaf margins. The fully branched habit provides layers of lush green foliage from bottom to top. The stellar pink dogwood is an interesting hybrid plant developed by elwin r.

In the spring this elegant small tree boasts light pink star shaped flowers set against very attractive green and white variegated foliage. The japanese dogwood grows in japan china and korea. Give this sensational ornamental tree a premium location in your landscape where you can watch the show change from season to season. While the original stellar pink had solid green leaves this mutation or sport exhibits green leaves with a white margin and dispersed green and mottled hues of green and white in.

Dogwood is easy to grow requiring sun and moist soil. Plant in full sun to partial shade. The flowers are sterile and do not produce a fruit. Rutgers is introducing an exciting variation of our famous and highly popular stellar pink dogwood.

Variegated stellar pink in full sun. Variegated stellar pinktm has a unique combination of characteristics. Orton jr at rutgers university in new jersey. Exciting new variety provides brilliant color from spring through fall.

He took the japanese dogwood cornus kousa and crossed it with a variety of the american flowering dogwood cornus florida sweetwater. Slower growing than the green leaf version eventually reaching 15 20 tall but well worth the wait as it is completely unrivaled in its spectacular beauty in autumn. 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. Besides leaf color with brighter color all other attributes are identical to the stellar pink variety.

Cornus x variegated stellar pink us pp.