 Best Sellers Hong Kong Dogwood Cornus hongkongensis Detailed Listing For Botanical Name: Cornus hongkongensis Common Name: Hong Kong Dogwood Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 18 Germination Test Type:  Cut (Full Seed) Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8 In Stock: 1.65 lb Prices Items are priced on a curve, you can buy any 'bulk quantity' up to what we have in stock, some examples are: 1 packet (~ 18 seeds) $4.95 10 gram (~ 200 seeds) $14.50 1 oz (~ 568 seeds) $21.95 1 lb (~ 9080 seeds) $159.50 | | | Growing Info, follow in order: Scarification: Soak in water, let stand in water for 24 hours. Stratification: cold stratify for 120 days. Germination: sow seed 1/4" deep, tamp the soil, mulch the seed bed. Other: Germination may be irregular and some seed may lie over 2 years before germination. |
Physical Characteristics  Cornus hongkongensis is an evergreen Shrub growing to 15 m (49ft 3in). It is in leaf 12-Jan It is in flower from Apr to June, and the seeds ripen from Oct to December. The plant prefers light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils and can grow in heavy clay soil.The plant prefers acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils..It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade.It requires moist soil. 22. Cornus hongkongensis Hemsley, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 23: 345. 1888.
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Trees or shrubs, evergreen, 3–15(–25) m tall. Bark gray, dark gray, or blackish brown, smooth; young branches green or purplish green, sparsely pubescent with brown appressed trichomes or rarely densely pubescent with brown trichomes or glabrous; old branches light gray, grayish green, or grayish brown, with lenticels or not. Winter flower buds globose to conical, exposed, subtended by four green bracts, bracts eventually expanded and petaloid; leaf buds subtending flower buds, with small triangular to lanceolate scales. Leaf blade elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or obovate-oblong, 6.2–13(–16) × 2.5–6.3(–7.5) cm, thinly to thickly leathery, abaxially light green or powder green, glabrous or sparsely pubescent with white or brown and white trichomes when young, often glabrous in age except sometimes pubescent in axils of veins, veins 3 or 4(or 5), base cuneate or broadly cuneate to rounded, apex shortly acuminate to caudate. Capitate cymes globose, 0.7–1.3(–2) cm in diam., 40–70-flowered; bracts yellowish or white, broadly elliptic, broadly ovate, or orbicular to obovate, 1.6–4 × 1.3–2(–4.2) cm, sparsely pubescent or glabrous. Calyx tube 0.7–1.3 mm, shallowly 4-lobed, rarely 5-lobed; lobes truncate to rounded. Petals elliptic, oblong-elliptic, ovate-elliptic, or ovate-lanceolate to ovate, 1.5–4.2 × 0.8–1.1 mm, sometimes slightly united at base. Style cylindrical, 0.5–1.5 mm, sparsely pubescent with white trichomes or glabrous. Compound fruit red or yellowish red at maturity, globose, 1.5–2.5 cm in diam., nearly glabrous or slightly pubescent with fine white trichomes; peduncle 4–8(–10) cm. Fl. Apr–Jun, fr. Oct–Dec.
Forests, valleys, slopes, streamsides, roadsides; 200–2500 m. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Laos, Vietnam]. Cornus hongkongensis is an evergreen Shrub growing to 15 m (49ft 3in). It is in leaf 12-Jan It is in flower from Apr to June, and the seeds ripen from Oct to December.
The plant prefers light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils and can grow in heavy clay soil.The plant prefers acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils..It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade.It requires moist soil. |
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