General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Tree
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Wet Mesic
Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Strongly acid (5.1 – 5.5)
Moderately acid (5.6 – 6.0)
Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Plant Height: 15-25 feet
Plant Spread: 12-18 feet
Leaves: Good fall color
Deciduous
Fruit: Edible to birds
Other: This hybrid does not produce fruit
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: White
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Suitable Locations: Patio/Ornamental/Small Tree
Uses: Flowering Tree
Edible Parts: Fruit
Wildlife Attractant: Butterflies
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Miscellaneous: Patent/Plant Breeders' Rights: PP7210
Parentage: Cornus florida x Cornus kousa

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Trade name information:
Series: Stellar
Trade Name: Constellation®
Cultivar name: 'Rutcan'
Common names
  • Dogwood
  • Flowering Dogwood
Also sold as:
  • Cornus x rutgersensis 'Constellation'
  • Cornus x rutgersensis 'Rutcan'

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Location: Newby Hall garden, Ripon, Yorkshire UK
Date: 2022-05-15
Location: Newby Hall garden, Ripon, Yorkshire UK
Date: 2022-05-15
Location: Visitors Center, Hidden Lake Gardens, Tipton, Michigan
Date: 2020-10-31
This cultivar is claimed to be sterile, i.e. not to produce fruit
Location: Visitors Center, Hidden Lake Gardens, Tipton, Michigan
Date: 2020-10-31
I neglected to take photos specifically of the trunk and bark, bu
Location: Newby Hall Ripon Yorkshire England UK 
Date: 2022-05-15
Cornus × rutgersensis Constellation
Location: Visitors Center, Hidden Lake Gardens, Tipton, Michigan
Date: 2020-10-31
Planted in 2012.  To my eyes it has more the look of the C. kousa
Location: Hidden Lake Gardens, Michigan
Date: 2021-05-29
Cornus Constellation® - At the height of the bloom period
Location: Visitors Center, Hidden Lake Gardens, Tipton, Michigan
Date: 2020-10-31
Overall the fall colors were rather dull and muted, though in fai
Location: Farmer Johns Nursery, MI
Date: 2010-04-29
Location: Farmer Johns Nursery, MI
Date: 2010-04-29
Location: Farmer Johns Nursery, MI
Date: 2010-04-29
Location: Farmer Johns Nursery, MI
Date: 2010-04-29
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Comments:
  • Posted by DaylilySLP (Dearborn Hts, MI - Zone 6b) on Feb 11, 2018 7:47 PM concerning plant:
    Hybridized by Orton, 1988
    (Cornus florida x Cornus kousa) was developed by Elwin R. Orton, Jr. as part of the Stellar series of dogwoods released by Rutgers University.

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