While as many as 60 species of trees and shrubs are in the genus Cornus, the most common locally are our native flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) and the nonnative kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa).

I heard a wake-up call, loud and clear, last summer. I was part of a group touring a garden in Connecticut, and we were gathered round a handsome kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa) in full bloom. Various ...

Rutgers holds a patent on the trees, with about 40,000 Scarlet Fire dogwoods sold each year. The university earns $2.25 per tree. New varieties like Stellar Nova and Eternal Scarlet are now being ...

There are over 50 species of dogwood - part of the Cornus plant family - that are native to North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. There is much diversity within this genus, ranging from medium ...

The original tree is now 16 years old. Thomas Molnar, who leads the breeding program, says the goal of creating a pink kousa dogwood has been decades in the making. The trees are disease-resistant ...