Cornus X 'Rutlan' Ruth Ellen

This cultivar has a wider growth habit. Its leaves are dark green and color deep red before they shed in autumn. Its flowers appear mid-May around the time the last Cornus florida has stopped flowering. The flowers are surrounded by 4 wide overlapping white bracts which attain a pink glow towards the end of the flowering period. The bracts grow in a flat manner, which nicely brings out the complete flower. The flowers are sterile, as all rutgerensis crossbreeds, and therefore have no fruits. It is winter proof and the rest of its characteristics are equal to those of its parents.