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White Flowering Dogwood
They open in May. The fruit is a bright scarlet, relished by birds, squirrels, and other animals, which often eat the fruit before it colors and matures, usually between September and November. The White Flowering Dogwood, Cornus Florida, is the ”aristocrat” of flowering trees because it is breathtakingly beautiful with its white blossoms. It is planted as a specimen, near a patio, or in groupings. The white or pink flower bracts are showy and often thought to be the petals of the flower. The White Flowering Dogwood has an excellent show of white blossoms in spring, and bright red berries in fall and winter. Does best in sun to part shade. Mulch to maintain a cool, moist soil. The wood is hard, heavy, strong, very close-grained, and brown to red in color. This deciduous tree does best in well-drained acid soil with sufficient organic matter. The White Flowering Dogwood is one of the showiest native trees. The flowers unfold from the round, conspicuous, gray winter flower buds before the leaves come out. It is a low branching tree that spreads horizontally and has a semi-rounded top. Needs summer water. ... find out more
Sugarberry Female flowers give way to an often abundant fruit crop of round fleshy berry-like drupes maturing to deep purple. The trunk diameter ranges from 1-3' and the mature gray bark develops a warty texture. Sugarberry is a medium to large sized deciduous tree that typically grows 60-80’ tall with upright-arching branching and a rounded spreading crown. The Sugarberry tree differs from common hackberry because the fruits are juicier and sweeter, bark is less corky, and leaves are narrower with mostly smooth margins. The Sugarberry tree, Celtis laevigata, is also commonly called sugar hackberry or southern hackberry or Mississippi hackberry. Leaves are glossy to dull green leaves (2-4” long) and have a yellow fall color. Fleshy parts of the fruit are edible and sweet. Sugarberry trees are basically a southern version of common or northern hackberry. |
