HRT 212 Plant Walk 7: Dogwoods and Lilacs Preview

Burning Bush

Note corky wings on stems

Japanese Tree Lilac

Note, OPPOSITE (cherry is alternate)

cherry-like bark

large clusters of seed capsules

Cornelian cherry dogwood

fat shrub or low-branched small tree

Note clusters of bright yellow flowers, interesting platey bark

Forsythia

Note raised, round lenticels on stems, yellow-green color of young branches

Gray dogwood

Note remains of last year's flower clusters in persistant pedicels

Common Lilac

Note large, twin terminal buds (flower clusters already out this year)

Miss Kim lilac

Note twin terminal buds with purplish bud scales

rounded habit, much smaller than Common lilac

Carolina allspice (nothing to do with culinary allspice)

Note all parts of this plant are intensely fragrant

stems pressed flat at the nodes

leaf scar has a smiley face (Sid from Ice Age?)

Meyer lilac

Note twin terminal buds, pointed (rounded on Miss Kim)

habit also more upright than Miss Kim, larger - but still much smaller than common lilac

Prominent dot-like lenticels

red-twig dogwood - suckering shrub

many cultivars with varying size, intensity of twig color

some variegated

yellow twig dogwood shrub

coral-colored dogwood shrub

Alternate Dogwood or Pagoda Dogwood

Note maroon-colored stems

Small tree with hortizontal branching in layers like a Pagoda

branches alternate (but just barely)

Flowering Dogwood

Note alligator-like bark

usually single stemmed small tree

large terminal flower buds (pretzel buns? biscuits?)

Slender Deutzia (this one is 'Nikko' a dwarf cultivar)

Note fine, twiggy habit

tan color, tiny capsules

Chinese Dogwood or Kousa Dogwood

single or multi-stemmed tree with pretty exfoliating bark

flower buds teardrop-shaped

Mockorange

Opposite, young stems cinnamon stripey

4-chambered capsules