Scientific Name: Cornus 'Eddie's White Wonder'
Common Name: Eddie's White Wonder dogwood
Family Name: Cornaceae
Origin: Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C)
Plant Type: Tree - deciduous
Mature Size: 7 - 10m x 5 - 7m (height x width)
Habit: Dense, Open, Spreading, Twiggy
Form: Oval - vertical, Pyramidal - widely
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Accent plant, Shade tree, Specimen plant, Spring interest, Street (boulevard tree), Tall background, Woodland margin
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade
Soil or Media: Acidic, Humus rich, Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Elliptic, Ovate, Crenate, Serrulate
Flowers: Spike, White, May
Fruit: Aborted (hybrids) or absent
Key ID Features:
Downward branching, twigs purple/glaucous when young; leaves ovate-elliptic, most blades 7-10cm long x 5-7cm wide, margin undulating cupped, slightly scalloped, papery and hang down on petioles < 1cm long; flower bracts rounded, most 4-5cm long x 3-4cm wide, overlapping; fruit absent. Winter ID: swooping branches with dark red pubescent twigs, leaf scars opposite, shelf-like (perpendicular to stem), lateral buds minute, terminal leaf buds tear drop shaped, inflorescence buds dome-shaped with many floret bud bumps, surrounded by 4 triangular pubescent bracts about 4mm long.