I see this tree everywhere and I want to put one in my backyard...any ideas?


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5/12/2010 8:09:27 AM

BigHitSunday can - he was a horticulture major I believe.

5/12/2010 8:18:16 AM

That's a dogwood yo.

5/12/2010 8:21:55 AM

this dude's name is grayson

he's from fayetteville

he's got the drudge report listed as his homepage

and he ain't know what a dogwood is

5/12/2010 8:27:55 AM

i really don't think it is....that picture was taken yesterday...dogwoods bloomed weeks ago and should all now be green...

it really looks like one, but i swear it shouldn't be


^i am from fayetteville...dogwoods are around here like crazy...so that's why i am asking what it is...i know what a freakin' dogwood looks like!

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5/12/2010 8:28:09 AM

It was a long December and there's reason to believe maybe this year's blooming season will be later than the past.

5/12/2010 8:32:03 AM

from what i've been able to find online, it's a pacific dogwood - which bloom later than the flowering dogwood around Fayetteville and NC...i guess if someone can confirm i would appreciate it.

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5/12/2010 8:32:12 AM

5/12/2010 8:38:14 AM

lol you guys are ridiculous

5/12/2010 8:39:04 AM

^^LOL, WIN, 10/10

5/12/2010 9:22:29 AM

Lives in NC and can't identify dogwood

If you want to know the variety it would be helpful to take closeups of the leaves, etc.

5/12/2010 9:26:46 AM

i thought it was a dogwood but because of it's late blooming i didn't want to assume it was...that's why i'm asking here...YOU PEOPLE

5/12/2010 9:32:51 AM

it's definitely a dogwood, now as to what specific variety...

that's the question you should be asking.

like the one occamsrezr posted is a kousa dogwood. The orientation of the blooms gives that away. The one you posted looks like a standard run of the mill dogwood, but it is late for it to be blooming, so perhaps it's something different, or maybe it is a standard dogwood and its biological clock is fucked.

5/12/2010 10:20:23 AM

no i see them alot right now...i spent some time in Winston salem this past weekend and they were all over there too.

they start out w/ a light green leaf and it turns white like the one i posted. i think it's the pacific dogwood but who knows.

5/12/2010 10:41:11 AM

give me a close-up, so I can tell you.

5/12/2010 10:43:39 AM

Are dogwoods the ones that stink like stanky pussy for a few weeks in the springtime?

5/12/2010 11:19:10 AM

nah bro

5/12/2010 11:24:03 AM

There was always something that stank up the NCSU campus for a couple of weeks every April and it seemed to coincide with the dogwoods blossoming. It'd suck to have one of those in the back yard, whatever they are.

5/12/2010 11:26:30 AM

it was mulch

5/12/2010 11:30:59 AM

what really stinks is the gingko trees.... whooooo not funny

5/12/2010 11:37:28 AM

bradford pears are the stinky trees

5/12/2010 11:46:28 AM

Yea the stinky ones have tiny little white flowers. I know exactly which ones you are talking about because I hated them too.

5/12/2010 11:49:09 AM

as far as i know kousa, flowering, and silky dogwood are at the very least naturalized in the state, if not completely found in the wild we also have some dogwood that is a prostrate shrub and aint even a tree

they are all also totally different once fruit is set but flowring doggie flowers before leaves show up while kousea flowers afterwards, the fruit looks like lil fleshy gumballs without spines and are sweet and edible

silky dogwood has tiny flowers and blue fruits and is found in wet areas like near creeks

i cant see your pic prolly just a regular flowering dogwood

5/12/2010 12:36:31 PM

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5/12/2010 12:36:31 PM

bradford pear is just an all around horrible tree aside from its appearance from a distance

up close you can see its disease

5/12/2010 12:38:22 PM

You know how you can tell a dogwood apart from other trees?



BY IT'S BARK!!!

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

5/12/2010 12:42:23 PM

Zing!

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5/12/2010 12:46:56 PM

It's a dogwood. I can tell by the pixels.

5/12/2010 1:14:41 PM

Yeh that's a Kousa Dogwood.

5/12/2010 8:06:20 PM

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5/13/2010 7:22:48 AM

Maybe one of you people that knows about dogwoods could answer this for me.

In Japanese the characters for dogwood are "flower water tree." Any insight into why?

5/13/2010 7:28:54 AM

maybe in japan they are predominately riverine species

i couldnt tell u just a guess, but i could imagine the prolific flowering next to a creek or river would inspire that kanji

5/13/2010 12:29:21 PM

Dogwoods don't handle drought or dry locations as well as other trees do.

5/13/2010 12:38:54 PM

dogwoods cant handle anything period

5/13/2010 12:43:31 PM

Kinda like your mom.

5/13/2010 1:46:07 PM

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5/13/2010 1:52:33 PM

dogwoods smell terrible when they're blooming

5/13/2010 1:58:06 PM

This picture was taken yesterday? Are those azaleas in that picture? I remember them being in full bloom about a month or so ago, but I guess some varieties are still in bloom now. Same with dogwoods.

This link sounds Asheville area specific, but:

http://www.ncarboretum.org/exhibits/outdoors/gardens-collections/whats-in-bloom/

I'll have to take a picture of the tree for identification and post to be sure, but... We have a bradford pear and it smells sweet when compared to a few trees in our neighborhood. I believe they are chestnut trees, but I'm not sure. There are a few along the running trails that almost kill you as you go by. While in bloom they smell so bad I'm tempted to take a hack-saw to them.

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5/13/2010 2:06:18 PM

The azaleas along my driveway are in pretty much peak bloom right now. The ones at our next door neighbor's place were in bloom about a month ago and are long wilted now. They have a pretty wide range of blooming times depending on variety.

5/13/2010 5:21:02 PM

tl, that one that smells like dried come is Azalea i think, Wilmington smells like that really bad in the spring.

5/13/2010 6:05:10 PM

no, it's bradford pear that smells like cum. azalea doesn't have much of any smell.

5/13/2010 7:24:53 PM

Definitely not a chestnut, I remembered that this particular tree is an evergreen. I'm leaning toward mountain laurel now, which after reading the wiki entry makes more sense. The pollen is toxic. Like I said, far worse smell than the bradford pear that's in the same vicinity.

5/14/2010 7:25:20 AM