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Stellar Pink®
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Cornus x ‘Rutgan’ Plants of this hybrid are very vigorous and erect in habit and are more uniformly full in width than are plants of C. kousa. At the age of 19 years, the original seedling was 23.0 feet tall and 18.0 feet wide. The flower heads have very attractive bracts that are pink in color. They are sessile and nearly rounded to obovate with a short, acute tip and tapered base. Typically, the margins of the basal one-third of adjacent bracts overlap.
The period of floral
display is quite similar to that of Aurora®
and Celestial®,
and starts a few days after the floral display periods
for Ruth Ellen®,
Stardust®
and Constellation®
begin and
five to seven days after
the completion of the floral display periods of most plants of
C. florida. The nurserymen who have seen the tree in flower
have been very enthusiastic about it.
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