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Stan
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:52 pm Posts: 10687 Location: Hayward- S.F. Bay area Ca.
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Mexican Dogwood...
From Mexico It's a stunner in bloom.( This has been edited)
Last edited by Stan on Tue Apr 25, 2017 3:08 pm, edited 3 times in total.
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Chad
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:03 pm Posts: 2343 Location: Inland Cornwall UK
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Re: Citharexylum hidalgensis.
I don't think that label matches the plant Stan.
There are other picture on the internet of that name matched with that plant but the pictures of the flowers you show are of Cornus florida subspecies urbiniana.
Citharexylum is Verbenaceae and has five petaled flowers united at their base. They are held in spikes. The wood is used for making stringed instruments [presumably including the originally Greek kithara after which the Genus is named though the Genus is all 'New World' so that must be an immigrant use].
is a rather special Cornus. Has anyone grown in it in Europe?
Chad.
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Stan
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:52 pm Posts: 10687 Location: Hayward- S.F. Bay area Ca.
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Re: Citharexylum hidalgensis.
Now that you point it out ..a Dogwood sounds right. Thanks Chad.
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Sun Apr 23, 2017 6:23 pm |
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John Jearrard
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:19 pm Posts: 487 Location: Cornwall, UK
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Re: Citharexylum hidalgensis.
Well ... now you mention it...
It's an old picture - I noticed this morning how good it was looking, but it's too dark now for a photo.
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Nick Macer
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:42 pm Posts: 1284 Location: Gloucestershire, UK
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Re: Citharexylum hidalgensis.
I have sold them for a few years.
Amazing to see how heavily they flower when subjected to Californian sun...
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davidmdzn7
Joined: Tue Jun 14, 2011 12:01 pm Posts: 412 Location: Maryland, USA
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Re: Florida Dogwood...
I have what is almost certainly a C. florida urbiniana X C. florida. (the former is from the cloud forests of Mexico, btw, not Florida)
So the flowers are only partway fused on 2 bracts:
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Stan
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:52 pm Posts: 10687 Location: Hayward- S.F. Bay area Ca.
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Re: Mexican Dogwood...
That's right. What was I thinking? It was part of the Mexican cloudforest section.
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Tue Apr 25, 2017 3:09 pm |
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Nick Macer
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:42 pm Posts: 1284 Location: Gloucestershire, UK
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Re: Florida Dogwood...
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Thu Apr 27, 2017 9:36 am |
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davidmdzn7
Joined: Tue Jun 14, 2011 12:01 pm Posts: 412 Location: Maryland, USA
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Re: Mexican Dogwood...
The seed for mine was taken off a C. florida urbiniana collected in Mexico by one of the Yucca Do guys, probably. Definitely sold as C. florida urbiniana. JC Raulston discussed adding this plant to the NCSU arboretum in the invaluable notes he left before his death. At any rate, other things about its appearance suggest it is quite unlike a typical C. florida. Believe me, I know, I see hundreds of them driving around, wild and cultivated.
If there are fused ones like that in the wild of the CONUS, it's certainly news to me - and rather surprising a selection wasn't previously made during the first heyday of C. florida cultivars from the 1920s to 1950s. Which mostly comprised the selection of unusual wild forms (narrow leaves, double flower, etc) rather than the deliberate crossings of the Orton era.
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Nick Macer
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:42 pm Posts: 1284 Location: Gloucestershire, UK
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Re: Mexican Dogwood...
I remember reading about fused bracts in US populations some time ago, but can't remember where. It made me think at the time that urbiniana wasn't therefore so unusual in its fused bracts, but I'll take your word for it.
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