Author Topic: Help with I.D. (Read 867 times)

Jeff · « **on:** June 06, 2021, 07:44:18 AM »

I'll bet @SwampDonkey knows what this is. He knows everything that grows in my area of the u.p. I think as it is so similar to his latitude.

I have thinned around it over the years and it is really a handsome feature of the cabin. The birds love it.

Don P · « **Reply #1 on:** June 06, 2021, 08:19:29 AM »

I love the form of them, we lost our last one by the house a few years ago.

Jeff · « **Reply #2 on:** June 06, 2021, 08:26:27 AM »

So what is them??

Don P · « **Reply #3 on:** June 06, 2021, 08:29:05 AM »

Cornus alternifolia (Alternate-leaved Dogwood, Pagoda Dogwood) | North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox (ncsu.edu)

firefighter ontheside · « **Reply #4 on:** June 06, 2021, 08:43:47 AM »

I would have said dogwood, but didn't look exactly like the ones around me.

Jeff · « **Reply #5 on:** June 06, 2021, 08:47:24 AM »

It looks so different from the redosier dogwood that is so prolific here. I have to beat that back every year, where this I've been trying to nurture due to it's pleasing form. Its especially healthy looking this year.

Thank you Don.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #6 on:** June 06, 2021, 09:07:04 AM »

Yup, got a huge one up near the woodlot.

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mike_belben · « **Reply #7 on:** June 06, 2021, 03:28:17 PM »

i save every dogwood i encounter on the future homesite/woodlot. i probably have 15 of them now. i meant to, but missed the blooming window this spring to go put pink flagging tape on them like ive done with some little save maples.

Southside · « **Reply #8 on:** June 06, 2021, 05:31:25 PM »

I do the same thing here with Dogwoods and other flowering trees. Some years I find new ones in an area I have been through dozens of times, not everything flowers every year. This spring I found three Serviceberry / Shad trees in a tree line between two fields I can not begin to guess how many times I have driven, walked, or ridden by, they were only in flower for a few days. Noticed yesterday they have seed pods now.

Old Greenhorn · « **Reply #9 on:** June 06, 2021, 05:43:33 PM »

Quote from: mike_belben on June 06, 2021, 03:28:17 PM

i save every dogwood i encounter on the future homesite/woodlot. i probably have 15 of them now. i meant to, but missed the blooming window this spring to go put pink flagging tape on them like ive done with some little save maples.

Pink tape? That will drive the surveyors crazy!

LeeB · « **Reply #10 on:** June 06, 2021, 06:56:53 PM »

We have hundreds of dogwoods on our place and heaven forbid if I ever happen to cut one down.

mike_belben · « **Reply #11 on:** June 06, 2021, 10:30:10 PM »

well.. im the surveyor too.

Old saw fixer · « **Reply #12 on:** June 07, 2021, 10:03:45 AM »

Dogwood and redbuds are both keepers!

Clark · « **Reply #13 on:** June 10, 2021, 10:23:01 PM »

If you give it a little more sun it will develop into more of a small tree but never completely out of the bush stage. I think they are pretty neat looking in full sun and rather shrubby in the shade. Yours appears to be somewhere between the two.

Clark

Jeff · « **Reply #14 on:** June 10, 2021, 10:37:19 PM »

Correct, kinda in between now, but it must of came to be in full shade. I recognized the uniqueness when I was clearing to the field and spared it. This was mostly brush as recently as 4 years ago. You couldn't see into the field other than straight down the trail past the outhouse. There are a couple of iffy aspen growing there yet I will take out. This specimen I think deserves some special attention.

mike_belben · « **Reply #15 on:** June 11, 2021, 09:28:23 AM »

It is a species of great legend.

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