{"id":1341,"date":"2013-09-19T14:01:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T21:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/?page_id=1341"},"modified":"2025-03-20T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:34:52","slug":"kousa-dogwood","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/dogwoods\/kousa-dogwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Kousa Dogwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_1685-kousa-dogwood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2044 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_1685-kousa-dogwood-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1685 kousa dogwood\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_1685-kousa-dogwood-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_1685-kousa-dogwood-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_1684-kousa-dogwood-e1411425762200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2043\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_1684-kousa-dogwood-e1411425762200-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1684 kousa dogwood\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_1684-kousa-dogwood-e1411425762200-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_1684-kousa-dogwood-e1411425762200-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><\/a>The Kousa dogwood (a native of Japan and Korea) differs from the Eastern Flowering Dogwood in its later flowers (in June) with pointed bracts that stand above the foliage, and in its rounded and showy fruit clusters. The tree is about the same size as the American species and makes a nice garden tree.<\/p>\n<p>Cornus kousa var. chinensis<br \/>\n&#8220;Chinese Dogwood&#8221;<br \/>\nThis variety comes from China and has larger leaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kousa dogwood (a native of Japan and Korea) differs from the Eastern Flowering Dogwood in its later flowers (in June) with pointed bracts that stand above the foliage, and in its rounded and showy fruit clusters. The tree is&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/dogwoods\/kousa-dogwood\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Kousa Dogwood<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2044,"parent":1333,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"trees_template.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1341","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2070,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1341\/revisions\/2070"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}