Pacific Dogwood
The pacififc dogwood is also known as the Western Flowering Dogwood or the Mountain Dogwood. The name "dogwood" is thought to be related to the early use of hardwood trees because the wood was considered skewers of "dags" and over time "dagwood" became "dogwood".Structure of the tree, leaf, stem, flower, fruit, and bark~The Pacific Dogwood can get up to about 15 meters in height or it can appear as small as a shrub. It grows where many hardwood trees cannot because it is successful in carrying out photosynthesis under only 1/3 of full sunlight making it shade tolerant. The wood is fine grained, hard and heavy. It is also prone to splitting, so it has limited and specialized uses.The leaves are about 6-11 cm wide and 3-7 cm long. They are simple and deciduous. Their shape is elliptical to obvoate or almost round and the edges are slightly wavy with 5-6 mm long veins on each side of the midveins. The color is usually shiny green and nearly hairless above with paler
The older the tree, the smaller the scales are. The stems are slender with a light green color that becomes dark red or blackish with age. The Pacific Dogwood is usually found from the southern coast of B. They do this by not falling off until every flower in their cluster is pollinated, thus they bloom for quite some time. The Pacific Dogwood has many uses. It is associated with all gigantic West Coast forests dominated by Sitka spruce, Coastal redwoods, Giant sequoia, Douglas fir, Western hemlock, Maples, Nuttall will, Red alder, and many species of pine. The fruit is a dense cluster of elongated red to scarlet drupes about 1/2 an inch long. In Autumn, purplish-brown bracts form over next spring's flower buds that will bloom from April to June and sometimes again in September. The flowers are about 6 mm wide and have 4 greenish-yellow petals. Although they are very bitter, they are edible. The texture is thin and smooth or scaly. The resemblance is so close that David Douglas (the first botanist to see the Pacific Dogwood) mistook it for the eastern species. These bracts protect the flower clusters and attract pollinators.
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