| Scientific Name: | Cornus kousa cvs. |
| Common Name: | Chinese dogwood, kousa dogwood |
| Family Name: | Cornaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin, S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 7 - 10m x 7 - 10m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract birds, Specimen plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Elliptic, Ovate, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Spike, White, Pink, Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Drupe, Edible, Multiple fruit, Red, Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, elliptic-broadly ovate, 10-14cm long x 4-8cm wide, 4–6 major veins per side (1 near margin), margins entire and cupped upwards; inflorescence 9-14mm wide, florets 40-75, bracts 4-6cm long x 3-5cm wide, white and often turning pink with age (bract tips are pointed compared to those of C. florida which are rounded with a cleft); multiple fruit, red, rounded, 18-25mm wide with 1-3 stones. Winter ID: bark mottled and exfoliating, twigs dark reddish-brown, pubescent, leaf scars opposite, lateral buds minute, terminal leaf buds valvate, ovoid, about 8mm long, some with forked tips; inflorescence buds garlic bulb-shaped (not as flattened as C. florida). | |