What's in a name?
During his research on dogwoods, Willard Witte, associate professor of nurseries
and ornamentals at UT, has found 127 different names for cultivars flowering
dogwood. Among the varieties are:
'Rubra,' a name that applies to any pink form that occurs naturally in the
wild, or any pink-red dogwood propagated by nurserymen, which doesn't have
a specific cultivar name.
'Cherokee Chief' is a red-bracted variety introduced in Tennessee in 1958.
'Cherokee Princess' is a white-bracted variety introduced in 1959.
Other popular whites varities include: 'Cloud 9,' 'Springtime,' and 'World's
Fair.'
The most common variety name for the Chinese dogwood (Cornus Kousa) is
'Milky Way.'
Two of the newest introductions are a combination of variegated
leaves with white bracts ('Cherokee Daybreak') or red bracts ('Cherokee
Sunset').
Source: The University of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station.
Summer 1995. Agri Science . p. 50.
