Wedding Cake Tree
Cornus controversa 'Variegata' · Trees - Deciduous
Variegated tree, Goodnestone
Goodnestone, 1 June 2024
The layered, horizontal branching that earns this tree its common name of wedding-cake tree, each tier picked out in white-margined leaves against the plain green of whatever is growing behind it.
I am reading the cultivar from the variegation and the tiering rather than a full view of the crown, so treat the name as a good guess rather than a certainty. It is a dogwood, from China and Japan, and one of the slowest and most expensive trees in the nursery trade because the variegated form has to be grafted.
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