| Scientific Name: | Cornus alba 'Elegantissima' |
| Common Name: | silverleaf dogwood, variegated Siberian dogwood |
| Family Name: | Cornaceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia, Garden origin, S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Shrub - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 2 - 3m x 2 - 3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Open, Spreading |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal, Round |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Fall interest, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Screening, Summer interest, Winter interest, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Elliptic, Ovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Drupe, Edible, White, Jun-Jul |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Shrub to 3m tall; leaves opposite, ovate-elliptic, 4-11cm long x 2-5cm wide, margin entire, creamy-white variegation, upper surface wrinkly, underside glaucous, petiole 8-25mm long; florets tiny, white, flat corymb-like cymes, late spring; flowers 6-8mm wide, 4 white petals pink then cream ovary and stamens, in corymb-like cymes; drupes ellipsoid, white (may have a bluish tinge), 7-9mm long. Winter ID: buds valvate, appressed, red to brown-black; stems turn blood red (very similar to <a href ='https://www.google.com/search?q=Cornus+sericea' target='_blank'>C. sericea</a> and may be sold as <a href ='https://www.google.com/search?q=Cornus+alba+Argenteo-marginata' target='_blank'>C. 'Argenteo-marginata'</a>). | |