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Cornus Watermelon Sugar™

Pink, green and white leaves and huge flowers.

Cornus Watermelon Sugar™ comes to us from our friends at Van Heesbeen Nursery in the Netherlands. We love this new Korean dogwood for its tri-color variegation after flowering, vigor, and large, showy flowers. 

The foliage emerges green, and is followed by large, pure white star shaped flowers.  As the season progresses, the foliage develops a wonderful variegation,  beginning with white flecks and aging with a pink blush to the tips, giving it an overall tri-color effect similar to Salix Hakuro-Nishiki. This wonderful variegation gets stronger and stronger, as the strawberry-red fruits form in late summer and remains until true autumn, when the foliage gets darker red.

The flowers age and form typical strawberry-like fruits that stay on until a bird eats them or they fall off, giving fall and often winter interest. The bark will mottle, as all Cornus kousas do, as the tree ages and matures. 

This is a true four-season tree! 

 

Who Am I?

  • Common Name:
    Watermelon Sugar dogwood
  • Botanical Name:
    Cornus kousa 'CORHEESFT' PP 35268
  • Type:
    Tree

Cultural Details

TYPE

Tree
  • Light:
    Full sun
  • Soil:
    Average garden soil
  • Moisture:
    Moist, but well-drained.
  • Hardiness Zone
    5-8
  • Bloom Time:
    Late Spring
  • Bloom Color:
    white
  • Fruit Time
    Fall to winter
  • Fruit Color
    Red
  • Size:
    15-20' tall by 10-15' wide
  • Diseases & Pests:
    None known

What Makes Me Special?

Variegated leaves on a vigorous dogwood with large flowers.

Landscape Use

Specimen, Urban landscape tolerant

Origin

Van Hesbeen Nrsery in The Netherlands 

Propagation

Grafting
Hardwood Cuttings

Who Am I?

  • Common Name:
    Watermelon Sugar dogwood
  • Botanical Name:
    Cornus kousa 'CORHEESFT' PP 35268
  • Type:
    Tree

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