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dogwood
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Copyright: dilek art (dilek) Silver Star Critiquer [C: 14 W: 0 N: 9] (82)
Genre: Plants
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2010-11-22
Camera: Canon 450D Digital Rebel XSi
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2010-11-23 18:35
Viewed: 3349
Points: 16
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Cornus Florida ( Yabani Kizilcik
Flowering dogwood is a small deciduous tree growing to 10 m (33 ft) high, often wider than it is tall when mature, with a trunk diameter of up to 30 cm (1 ft). A 10-year-old tree will stand about 5 m (16 ft) tall. The leaves are opposite, simple, oval with acute tips, 6–13 cm long and 4–6 cm broad, with an apparently entire margin (actually very finely toothed, under a lens); they turn a rich red-brown in fall.

The flowers are individually small and inconspicuous, with four greenish-yellow petals 4 mm long. Around 20 flowers are produced in a dense, rounded, umbel-shaped inflorescence, or flower-head, 1–2 cm in diameter. The flower-head is surrounded by four conspicuous large white, pink or red "petals" (actually bracts), each bract 3 cm long and 2.5 cm broad, rounded, and often with a distinct notch at the apex. The flowers are bisexual.

While most of the wild trees have white bracts, some selected cultivars of this tree also have pink bracts, some even almost a true red. They typically flower in early April in the southern part of their range, to late April or early May in northern and high altitude areas. The similar Kousa Dogwood (Cornus kousa), native to Asia, flowers about a month later.
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great capture, TFS Ori

Günaydın Dilek hanım. Daha önce hiç görmediğim ilginç çiçekler.
Detaylar ve kompozisyon harika olmuş. Emeklerinize ve ellerinize sağlık. Selam ve sevgiler.
Bayram

Dilek hanım merhabalar,
net ve canlı renkleriyle ülkemizden güzel bir kır çiçeği bayram beyin dediği gibi bende yeni görüyorum elinize sağlık Saygılar,
Murat

Hi,
Lovely threesome flowers, excellent colors. tfs.
nagraj.v

Selamlar Dilek hanım,
Bayram hocamla aynı fikirdeyim,
İlk kez görüyorum çok güzel.

Merhaba Dilek hanım,
Fantastic capture of this pretty plant I never see. Impressive colours and sharpness. Selamlar,
Catherine

Bonjour Dilek,
Agréable publication avec cette belle macro bien composée valorisant bien le sujet par l'appréciation de la finesse des détails et la délicatesse des couleurs.
A bientôt sur TN pour de nouvelles aventures.
Gérard

Merhaba Dilek..
Cok guzeller...Narin ve hos duruyorlar..Tebrik ederim harika goruntuledin..Ellerine saglik.
Selamlar
Leyla

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