cornus kousa

The kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa) has shown some resistance to the fungus but it is not completely immune.

Enter the popularity of the Kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa).

The similar Kousa Dogwood (Cornus kousa), native to Asia, flowers about a month later.

Dr. Orton has bred six interspecific hybrids of dogwoods with the native dogwood, Cornus florida, and the later-flowering Cornus kousa as parents.

With the leaves off the boughs, there is no better time to appreciate the magnificent shape of an aged beech tree (whose bark always reminds me of weary old elephants), or the exfoliating bark of an old Cornus kousa, or Japanese dogwood.