Cornus kousa 'China girl' - Van den Berk on Trees

Описание: Grows from a shrub into a multi-stemmed tree up to about 8 m, with a broad, vase-shaped crown. The leaf is dark green on top and blue-green on the underside. Leaf margin slightly undulate. The autumn colour is purplish red. Each flower head is surrounded by four large bracts that slightly overlap each other. The bracts turn from whitish green to creamy white and do not turn pink on blossoming. The red fruits, about 2.5 cm in size, are yielded profusely. The plant is shallow rooting with a fibrous root system and requires humic soil, which is not too dry. ‘China Girl’ has been cultivated since around 1910, but to distinguish it from C. kousa var. chinensis it was decided to give the plant this cultivar name in 1978.