Propagation
Stratify seeds and sow during spring in prepared beds.

Soft tip cuttings of non-flowering shoot during late spring and semi hardwood cuttings taken during late summer.

Botanic information
Leaf: The ovate to elliptical leaves are up to 38mm (1˝in) wide with an acute to acuminate apex and has pinnate veination. The base is broad cuniate and the petiole is up to 7mm (Ľin) long. The leaves turns red-purple during autumn. The divergent valavate greenish buds are covered in silky pubescence.

Flower: The unisexual stellate flowers have 4-reflexed petals and a long pubescent pedicle and is enclosed in a pubescent boat-shaped bract opening in an umbel up to 20mm (ľin) wideon a short peduncle. They appear on the small twigs and on mature wood before the leaves during spring.


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.

Fruit: