The pacififc dogwood is also known as the Western Flowering Dogwood or the Mountain Dogwood. The name "dogwood" is thought to be related to the early use of hardwood trees because the wood was considered skewers of "dags" and over time "dagwood" became "dogwood". Structure of the tree, leaf, stem, flower, fruit, and bark~ The Pacific Dogwood can get up to about 15 meters in height or it can appear as small as a shrub. It …showed first 75 words of 668 total…

…showed last 75 words of 668 total…to see the Pacific Dogwood) mistook it for the eastern species. In the 1830’s (about a decade later), an American naturalist, Thomas Nuttall examined the tree and found it to be a separate species. In the past ten to fifteen years, dogwoods have periodically suffered from a severe disease called "Dogwood Anthracnose" which is caused by a fungus called "Discula Destructive". Symptoms iclude bract necrosis, leaf spot, leaf blotch, blight, twig dieback, and trunk cankers.