| LEAVES | FLOWER | FRUITS AND SEEDS | BARK AND TRUNK | SIZE AND SHAPE | HABITAT AND RANGE |
Leaves
The
texture is soft & smooth.
Color is light green
Edge is smooth
The leaves of the Pacific dogwood are beautiful. They are oval shaped and they have a pointed tip. The edges are smooth and wavy. In autumn they become pinkish red. The leaves of the dogwood are three to 5 inches long. The dogwood’s leaves are light green. The leaf texture is soft and smooth. The edge is smooth.
Flower
Color, number of petals size and shape
The dog wood has six white yellowish petals in clusters from 30 to 40 leaves. The size is about 4 to 7 centimeters long. In autumn they become reddish brown or orange.
The fruits are dark red, sometimes dark blue. They grow plum
type fruits in the fall. The berries are not edible they are poisonous. The
seeds grow inside of the flower. And are about one centimeter big
Bark and stem or trunk
The dog wood has very smooth dark brown bark. The twigs curve up and branches in clusters of four. It feels almost like a marble. It really feels good. I really like it.
Size and shape
How Small trees, occasionally reaching 60 feet but usually much smaller (20 to 30 feet). Rounded crowns in the open but funny crowns in the understory. Branches spread horizontally and dip between nodes, making pleasing series of arcs in the branches. That the dogwood’s bark is made for piano keys.
tall, how wide
The dog wood is usually 20 to 60 feet tall.
Habitat and range
Where does it like to live. the dog wood lives from Washington to the very tip of the end of California.
It likes barley damp soils a popular tree in mixed forests. It might not make fruit in dense forests.
Where in the world does it live
Other interesting information
Interesting facts
Did you know
Small trees, occasionally reaching 60 feet but usually much smaller (20 to 30 feet). The top of the tree is rounded Branches spread across and dip between nodes, making cool things of dips in the branches. The the dogwood’s bark is made for piano keys.