| Description | Winter Beauty Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea) as the name implies has colorful stems for the winter landscape. A medium large to large shrub use in borders and in corner plantings. |
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| Pronunciation | (KOR-nus)(san-GWIN-e-ah) |
| Plant Type | Shrubs Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 4-7 |
| Sunlight | full to part |
| Moisture | average, moist |
| Soil & Site | average, moist |
| Flowers | dull white, borne in flat top cymes |
| Fruit | purplish drupe, attracts birds |
| Leaves | simple, green leaves, golden yellow fall |
| Stems | orange-yellow winter stems, tipped with red twigs |
| Dimensions | 5-6 by 5-6 feet, probably more, suckers to form dense colonies, use in shrub borders and corner plantings, to large for foundation plantings |
| Maintenance | I like to cut out 1/2 to a 1/3 of the old stems and cut the remaining stems back 50%. The plant can also be sheared down flat to the ground. Both of these methods will promote new colorful red stems. |
| Propagation | cuttings |
| Cultivar Origin | Raised and named by Andre van Nijnatten of Netherlands in 1987. |
| Misc Facts | AKA:Magic Flame Dogwood, Winter Flame Dogwood |
| Notes & Reference | #1-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), #175-Dogwoods (Paul Cappiello and Don Shadow) |
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