Posted by Tim Ferrell on March 30, 2007 at 8:15 PM
Is it possible for one tree to have both white and pink blossoms?
Posted by Glenn Carter on March 31, 2007 at 12:13 AM
Tim,
Until today I have only seen some that were two trees cleverly planted side by side. Today, however, I witnessed a tree that really had both colors on the same tree. I suspect that someone did some grafting here. It was in a front yard. However they did it, it sure looks cool.
Glenn
Commercially grown pink dogwoods are grafted onto white dogwood rootstocks. Sometimes a bud develops below the graft and can take off producing branches with white blossoms which are actually modified leaves called "bracts." The multitude of minute greenish yellow flowers are found in the center of the four bracts.
Pink dogwoods originated from one tree found in Tennessee in the 1800s and grafting had to be done because the color would not carry on through the seeds. I have only seen pink dogwoods in the wild in McDonald County, MO, and they were light pink at that. They have also been reported from five other counties in MO.
Best,
Don
Posted by Tim Ferrell on March 31, 2007 at 1:16 PM
Discussion
3 repliesUntil today I have only seen some that were two trees cleverly planted side by side. Today, however, I witnessed a tree that really had both colors on the same tree. I suspect that someone did some grafting here. It was in a front yard. However they did it, it sure looks cool.
Glenn
Commercially grown pink dogwoods are grafted onto white dogwood rootstocks. Sometimes a bud develops below the graft and can take off producing branches with white blossoms which are actually modified leaves called "bracts." The multitude of minute greenish yellow flowers are found in the center of the four bracts.
Pink dogwoods originated from one tree found in Tennessee in the 1800s and grafting had to be done because the color would not carry on through the seeds. I have only seen pink dogwoods in the wild in McDonald County, MO, and they were light pink at that. They have also been reported from five other counties in MO.
Best,
Don