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Plant of the Day
Tuesday 30 June 2026
The large creamy-white bracts of Cornus × elwinortonii ‘Venus’ ('Kn30 8'PBR) (dogwood) make an eye arching spring display. This plant is one of the Jersey Star Series developed at Rutgers University, USA, by Dr. Elwin Orton by crossing Cornus nuttallii with Cornus kousa var. chinensis. This hybrid was created in 1983 and released in 2006. It is a vigorous, spreading deciduous tree up to 6m tall and 4m wide.
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Randomly Selected Botanical Terms: Phyllaries
Flowers in the aster family have one of the most recognizable shapes in botany – a circle with a series of petals surrounding it. If you were asked to draw a flower, there is a good chance your drawing would look something like a sunflower, a daisy, a cosmos, or an aster. It’s one of the most basic flower shapes, and yet it isn’t a single flower; it’s a pseudanthium – a false flower. This is…
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Today's Haiku with Picture 684
Dokudami's
White flowers blooming in clusters
Not a flower
Bracts, not flowers. A versatile medicinal herb.
ドクダミの
群れ咲く白花
花ならず
花ではなく苞。万能の薬草。
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Bromeliad - photo by Charles Reeza, 9/20/20
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Dogwood branch with bracts.
Handkerchief tree (Davidia involucrata). Old Botanical Garden, Munich. May 2019.
Pink Dogwood
An interesting thing about dogwood blossoms is that the showy parts aren’t the petals. They’re actually bracts. The true flowers are tiny and clustered in the center.
