Propagation
Stratify seeds and sow during spring in prepared beds.

Take soft tip cuttings of non-flowering shoots during late spring and semi hardwood cuttings during late summer.

Culture
Dogwoods prefer a slightly acidic soils and protection from strong drying winds with the roots kept moist and cool. Generally Dogwoods require little pruning and the tree species may have the crown lifted revealing the trunk.

Botanic information
Leaf: The broad ovate leaves have veins that arch towards the acuminate apex and an uneven leaf base with a short petiole (to 12mm - ½in long). During autumn the leaves turn a brilliant crimson-purple and are a feature of the plant.

Flower: The tiny stellate flowers have 4-calyx lobes and is arranged in a dense terminal head. It is surrounded by four slightly twisted fleshy ovate to lanceolate shaped pointed white to pink bracts, up to 50mm (2in) long. They appear during early summer.

Fruit: The compound fleshy berry-like drupe is borne on long pendulous stalks that is up to 65mm (2½in) long. The seeds are viable but the plant may be reproduced vegetatively.