code: 669
This is certainly the best of all the cornus species growable
Family: Cornaceae
Common name: Bentham’s cornel, Himalayan flowering dogwood, Evergreen dogwood
Plant Classification: Hardy shrub
Minimum Height: 1.5 meters
Maximum Height: 3.5 meters
This outstanding shrub or small tree bears long-lived “flowerheads” of enormous, impressive, buttercup-shaped flowers, consisting of waxy, creamy butter-coloured bracts, followed by red, strawberry-like fruits. This is certainly the best of all the cornus species growable from seed and seed is already stratified.
Sowing advice:
These seeds have already been thoroughly cleaned and cold-stored for several months. They should be sown into well-drained, sandy compost at any time of the year, and covered to their own depth with sand or grit. No artificial heat is needed; the seed tray is best left in a cool spot outside and kept moist. Seeds germinate very slowly indeed in the spring after a chilling in the cold compost, regardless of when they are sown. Some seeds may take more than a year to germinate.
Species:
capitata– C. capitata is a bushy, spreading, borderline hardy, evergreen to semi-evergreen shrub or small tree with ovate to lance-shaped, grey-green leaves and clusters of tiny, green flowers surrounded by prominent, creamy-white bracts. Nodding, strawberry-like, red fruit follow the flowers in late summer.
Foliage: vergreen
Habit: Spreading, Bushy
