Variegated Stellar Pink Dogwood Tree

Slower growing than the green leaf version eventually reaching 15 20 tall but well worth the wait as it is completely unrivaled in its spectacular beauty in autumn.

Variegated stellar pink dogwood tree. Exciting new variety provides brilliant color from spring through fall. In the spring this elegant small tree boasts light pink star shaped flowers set against very attractive green and white variegated foliage. Profuse large overlapping blush pink flower like bracts cover this small but vigorous tree in early spring. Besides leaf color with brighter color all other attributes are identical to the stellar pink variety.

Developed by the rutgers university breeding program this is a stable mutation or sport of the popular stellar pink variety of dogwood tree that is the result of crossing two varieties cornus kousa and cornus florida. Fall color is abundant when the leaves turn a vivid red or bright burgundy. He took the japanese dogwood cornus kousa and crossed it with a variety of the american flowering dogwood cornus florida sweetwater. Dogwood is easy to grow requiring sun and moist soil.

Variegated stellar pinktm has a unique combination of characteristics. Plant in full sun to partial shade. The new cultivar is trademarked variegated stellar pink dogwood and originated as a bud mutation which gave rise to a branch from a stellar pink dogwood tree. Discovered in tennessee this fine variegated form of the stellar pink dogwood has rich dark stems and attractive white leaf margins.

The flowers are sterile and do not produce a fruit. Orton jr at rutgers university in new jersey. The only hybrid dogwood from the rutgers stellar series offering variegated leaf coloration brilliant fall colors abundant flowers bracts extremely healthy and a vigorous grower high disease resistance superior winter. The foliage turns pink and red in the fall.

Give this sensational ornamental tree a premium location in your landscape where you can watch the show change from season to season. Rutgers is introducing an exciting variation of our famous and highly popular stellar pink dogwood. We are delighted to be able to offer the amazing variegated stellar pink dogwood a plant unlike any other dogwood tree you ll find. And it has white bracts.

Cornus x variegated stellar pink us pp. Late spring brings sweet star shaped cotton candy pink flowers to your garden. The fully branched habit provides layers of lush green foliage from bottom to top. Variegated stellar pink in full sun.

In fall the leaves turn a fabulous purple red mixture. While the original stellar pink had solid green leaves this mutation or sport exhibits green leaves with a white margin and dispersed green and mottled hues of green and white in. The stellar pink dogwood is an interesting hybrid plant developed by elwin r. A sterile cultivar that produces no fruit.

The pink blossoms are very delicately colored and bloom so profusely that the tree looks like a pink cloud.