HRT 212 Plant Walk 7: Dogwoods and Lilacs

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