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Light Green Leaves & Tiny, White Flowers?

7 years ago

What is this shrub (or tree)?

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macranthos

7 years ago

Actually, all dogwoods have tiny flowers like that. Some just have showy bracts that we think of as the "flowers". That's what those big white "petals" are on Cornus kousa. The flowers on those are the tiny ball of white, green or yellow florets at the center.

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Old Forester ( Zones 8a-6a ) Ga/NC
7 years ago
kousa dogwood
blakrab Centex thanked Old Forester ( Zones 8a-6a ) Ga/NC
macranthos
7 years ago
It does look like a cornus, but not Kousa. Maybe cornus drummondii
blakrab Centex thanked macranthos
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tsugajunkie z5 SE WI ♱
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
Cornus racemosa. Gray dogwood, perhaps.

tj
blakrab Centex
Original Author
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
The leaves do look similar...but Dogwoods don't have tiny flowers like this does?
carol23_gw
7 years ago
Yes, some have flowers like that.

https://www.google.com/search?q=cornus+flowers&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLmpjEsr_MAhUKRCYKHZdzANUQ_AUIBygB&biw=1920&bih=940
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blakrab Centex
Original Author
7 years ago
Ah, thanks! Very likely a Roughleaf Dogwood, then!

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