Red, White and Creamy White Flowering Dogwood 紅白クリームのハナミズキ

Japanese follows English.　英語の後に日本語が続きます。

Flowering dogwood trees are everywhere in my neighborhood, which I was unaware of until recently.....
　

Red flowering dogwood 赤いハナミズキ

Creamy white dogwood bud
クリーム色のハナミズキ　

White flowering dogwood 白いハナミズキ

In Japanese, flowering dogwood is "flower, water and tree" because the tree needs a lot of water when forming buds in spring and its flowers are conspicuous.

However, its flowers, which are conspicuous, are not gorgeous. They have only four petals (see the note below) and their color is subdued, but they have something uniquely beautiful.... And that's what stopped me, making me stare at them for a while. The flowers in red, white and creamy white all stood out from the surroundings. And it was not until I read a plant tag beside the trees that I knew I was looking at dogwood flowers....

Note: A dogwood flower seems to have four petals, but they are actually not petals, but modified leaves called bracts that surround a cluster of tiny yellow/green flowers.

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ハナミズキです。花が目立つミズキなのでハナミズキだそうです。地味だけど不思議な魅力がありますね。しばし眺めた後、横の札を見てびっくり。これがハナミズキだったんだ～😲 知らずに見入っておりました｡｡｡

ちなみに花びらに見えるのは総苞という葉が変形したもので、中心のコチョコチョとした塊が花だそうです。

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