Dogwood tree

Abstract

A limb sport of Cornus florida rubra characterized by smaller, more wrinkled leaves which are variegated green and yellow, with rose colorations when immature and deep red to reddish-purple colorations in the autumn.

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct variety of dogwood tree substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by having variegated leaves with a generally centrally oriented sharply defined dark colored area surrounded by a light colored peripheral area, many of such leaves also having sharply defined patches of intermediate coloration.