Bothrocaryum controversum seed

LATIN NAME: Bothrocaryum controversum

COMMON NAME: Giant Dogwood

The giant dogwood is the broad, generous tree of the warm hillsides, white with flowers at the start of the summer. The tall, deciduous tree carries the large, oval leaves and the wide, flat-topped clusters of the small, white flowers in the early summer, one of the fine sights of the warm hillside, to be followed by the clusters of the small, blue-black fruits. The tree is a fine, broad presence of the large garden and the park, giving the fine, white canopy of the early summer. It is a tree of the open, sunny, well-drained ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The giant dogwood is a broad, white subject of the plant science, studied for the flat-topped clusters of the white flowers and the way the tree flowers so freely. The way the tree grows fast and gives the broad canopy has been examined closely, and it keeps showing up in the work on the flowering trees, the warm-climate dogwoods and the members of the dogwood family. The large, oval leaves and the tall, broad habit have also made it a fine garden tree, and the giant dogwood is a regular subject of the studies of the white flowering trees of the warm world.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The giant dogwood is a broad, generous tree of the large garden and the park. The wide, flat-topped clusters of the small, white flowers open in the early summer, covering the broad canopy with the white, one of the fine sights of the warm hillside and the park lawn, and the clusters of the blue-black fruits follow through the season. The tree grows fast and gives the fine, broad shade, and it is one of the fine choices for the large garden, the avenue and the park. It has been written up in the horticultural and the botanical papers for the white clusters and the fast, broad ways, and it is a fine, long-lived tree of the open, sunny, well-drained garden.

The giant dogwood is one of the broad, white flowering trees of the warm hillsides, and the flat-topped clusters of the small, white flowers cover the canopy in the early summer. The clusters of the blue-black fruits follow through the season.

To grow the giant dogwood from seed, sow the round, hard seeds in pots of moist, free-draining soil, keeping the pots in the shade, and set the young plants out in the cool, rich ground. The seedlings come up slowly and grow on steadily. With the sun and the deep, rich, well-drained ground, the white clusters will open through the early summer.

Cornus controversa (wedding cake tree), syn. Swida controversa, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Cornus of the dogwood family Cornaceae, native to China, the Himalayas and Japan. It is a deciduous tree growing to 50 ft (15 m), with multiple tiered branches. Flat panicles of white flowers appear in summer, followed by globose black fruit. The leaves turn a rich red-purple in autumn. It is cultivated in gardens and parks in temperate regions.
It is also sometimes referred to as Bothrocaryum contraversa (Hemsl.) Pojark when seeds are offered for online sale.
The variety C. controversa ‘Variegata’ has leaves with cream margins, which turn yellow in autumn, and grows to a lesser size than its parent – typically 25 ft (8 m). It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.