Dogwoods: Venus®
Overview
Variety: Venus®
Principal Investigator(s): Elwin Orton, David Gant, Constance Gant
Achievements:
• This award-winning variety was selected as the Grower of the Year Award, 2009 – Most Successful New Plant, U.K.
• Venus® has also received awards for the best novelty of the year, at PLANTARIUM 2007 in the Netherlands and at IPM 2008 in Essen, Germany
Strengths & Qualities
- Distinguished by exceptionally large, profuse, large creamy white flowers (bracts) – 6+s inches in size
- With Venus® expect abundant flowers that will almost completely cover the tree
- During the fall months you will find attractive strawberry like fruit
- Expect attractive glossy dark green leaves during the summer and a wonderful coloring of its leaves in the fall
- This variety will produce a tree that is extremely healthy and a vigorous grower
- Has a reputation for good tolerance of drought conditions
- Venus® is noted for high resistance to the diseases powdery mildew and anthracnose
- Venus® grows very vigorously as a dense tree branched low to the ground with upright branches.
- Venus® trees are about 18 feet tall and 25 feet wide at 20 years of age
- Branches form a rounded head wider than tall
- Has superior winter hardiness – The original tree has been field tested for 20 years and has been completely winter-hardy in USDA Plant Hardiness Map Zone 6a.
Intellectual Property
- US Plant Patent No. PP16,309 issued March 7, 2006
- Interspecific Cornus Hybrid Designated 'KN30-8'
- EU Madrid Protocol Trademark Registration
- UK Plant Variety Registration No. 24813 issued December 31, 2020
- Community Plant Variety Right Grant. No. 24813 from the European Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) issued April 20, 2009
- All trademarks are registered and continue to be enforced
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Contact Us
Contact: Christine Chow