4 bracts is usual, but you will find some sites say 4 to 6 but I have never seen 6
its the other points that seem to differentiate in my mind and the third TREE picture.... I cant name it beyond Flowering Dogwood neither should you unless your last pictures are from that tree.... Regards Ushadi On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 7:57 AM Alka Khare <[email protected]> wrote: > Got it Ushadi! > And I thought them to petals! > > Ok, so to order them in ascending order of time taken: > > DSC05703 - C. florida > DSC05705 - C. florida > DSC05706 - C. florida (having 4 bracts and hence C. florida) > DSC05707 - C. nuttallii > DSC05711 - C. nuttallii > DSC05762 - C. nuttallii > > Thank you Usha di for explaining it so well. > > Also attaching cropped pics of the real flowers. > > Thanks and regards > Alka Khare > > > On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 10:50:23 AM UTC+5:30, Ushadi wrote: >> >> Alka >> >> I like Uncle google..... >> >> The flower petals really BRACTS are 4, and shape is different. >> look at the distal end of the petals, its rounded and even has a vague >> notch or >> what is reminiscent of a notch as in c. florida flower bracts/petals >> >> ANd the real flowers look different to me, >> I was not able to enlarge them well enough >> to describe them officially. >> >> >> Another dogwood c. capitata has similar bract shape as c. florida, >> finally if you had gone back in end of summer or fall the red fruits >> would have been red, in either ... >> but different looking.but its leaves to me are different. though you >> don't yet have many leaves. >> >> >> But to me, you have two different types of flowers.... >> your major group is Mountain Dogwood. >> >> sorry, that's as far as I can go today >> >> >> Unless you can find the whole tree picture of these flowers >> and we can point out that they arose from the same tree trunk, then >> we can make a theory that perhaps the bracts are variable in numbers >> and shape in this particular mountain dogwood. >> >> >> Regards >> >> Ushadi >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:39 AM ushadi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Mahadesrawa ji >>> we see mountain dogwood in the pacific coast >>> on the mountains and in the parks or wilderness areas >>> >>> but the controversy ids about the c. florida type of flowers >>> and the link I have given above says some times the inns or private >>> gardens have planted the usual (ie eastern var of dogwoods) >>> >>> I have seen private yards homes in some redwood forests from before they >>> were protected parks >>> >>> and those yard have non-native plants. some people have started >>> documenting them. >>> takes a long time to track them, but if one searches long enough you can >>> find them. >>> >>> >>> Regards >>> Ushadi >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:00 AM Mahadeswara <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> *Cornus for sure , but not sure of the species. I have also seen >>>> this dogwood in *Yosemite >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at 7:22:32 AM UTC+5:30, Alka Khare wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Thanks Usha di. >>>>> >>>>> All the flower pics do have the same/very close to each other 'time >>>>> taken'. So mostly they are of the same tree. I generally do that. However, >>>>> I cannot be sure after these many years. >>>>> >>>>> The long shot, however, has been clicked at a another time. >>>>> >>>>> I asked Uncle Google about C. florida in Yosemite, but he could not >>>>> give me much info on C. florida in Yosemite. >>>>> Would like to know why do you consider pics 03 and 05 to be another >>>>> species (C. florida)? Is it because of the number of petals. >>>>> >>>>> Regards >>>>> Alka Khare >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 9:35:57 PM UTC+5:30, Ushadi wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> pics 06, 07, 10, and 11 are Cornus nutalli >>>>>> mountain dogwood >>>>>> >>>>>> pic 03 an d05 seem to be Cornus florida variety >>>>>> >>>>>> not sure which one grows in wilderness areas of pacific coastal areas? >>>>>> >>>>>> but nothing I impossible >>>>>> because pink var are claimed to be smuggled in to yosemite >>>>>> <https://www.yosemitehikes.com/wildflowers/dogwood/dogwood.htm> >>>>>> >>>>>> and 62 not sure which one. most likely the wild mountain dogwood. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards >>>>>> Ushadi >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 9:14 AM J.M. 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