Cornus florida 'Suwanee Squat' prophouse-winter-2028 Hence the two common names

Hence the two common names that have followed the plant for centuries

and it also happens to describe how the tree behaves in a planting

is a living fossil and one of the rarest conifers on earth

On the ordinary inkberry the dark berries all but vanish against the deep green leaves

where the whole herb

Cornus florida 'Suwanee Squat' prophouse-winter-2028 Hence the two common namesThere is a version of the flowering dogwood almost nobody has met. Cornus florida 'Suwanee Squat' was found in Suwannee County, Florida, by Bob Simons, a forest ecologist who spent half a century protecting the wild hardwood country of north Florida. As a young man in the early 1970s he walked a mixed hardwood hammock outside Gainesville, decided the place was worth saving, and talked ten landowners and the state into making it San Felasco Hammock;