All dogwood trees have fruit, usually little red berries that attract birds. Among the several dogwoods on our property, I have one Kousa Dogwood, inside our fenced pool patio. I is an East Asian plant, and different from the typical dogwoods of the New Jersey woodlands. In the spring, unlike other Dogwoods, it develops its leaves firs, and them the blossoms. As a result, the blossoms do not stand out as blatantly as in the other varieties. It makes up for this by blooming later, after the Magnolias and other Dogwoods have lost their blooms. It is a pleasant, attractive tree, that seems to grow more slowly that other Dogwoods.
The Kousa also differs in the size of its fruits, which are much larger, and darker red, than the little berries on the other Dogwoods. Birds love the fruits, and I find pieces scattered around the lawn this time of year. Perhaps because this has been a wet summer, this year's crop of Kousa fruits seems heavier, in size and number. I have red that the fruits are edible, but am not inclined to try them. http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2017/9/16/kousa K-5 IIs, FA 100 mm F 2.8 Macro. Comments are invited and appreciated. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
