It's dogwood flowering time. The spring edition; dogwood also flowers in the fall. In between times, it makes red berries.
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Western Flowering Dogwood, Cornus nuttallii. With beetle. |
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A tree full of blooms. |
The native dogwood is BC's Provincial flower, although it is found mainly on Vancouver Island and the edges of the fjords on the southwestern coast of the mainland, with a small extension along the lower Fraser River. (See entire BC Forestry map, here.) Its range also includes the western coast of the US.
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Cropped portion of BC Forestry map. Green areas are the dogwood's range. |
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The central flower head of a dogwood, some flowers open, with 4 petals. A few purplish marks. |
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This one has only one flower open so far. |
Los árboles, no muy grandes, casi como arbustos a veces, crecen en los bordes de los bosques; les gustan los sitios medio abiertos. Este, lo encontré al lado del camino en una parcela apenas recúperandose después de la tala.
Las flores van desde blancas a un amarillo claro, a veces verdes, a veces con marcas moradas en los pétalos. Y son muy pequeñas, midiendo a lo más hasta cm. completamente abiertas. Lo que vemos, a menos de que nos acerquemos mucho, son las brácteas, grandes y llamativas, blancas o color crema, o a veces con un dejo de color de rosa. Estas brácteas rodean el racimo de las verdaderas flores en el centro.
4: El capítulo del cornejo, con algunas de las flores abiertas. Tienen 4 pétalos, y se ven unas manchas oscuras.
5: Esta "flor" tiene solo una de las florecitas abiertas.
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