Korean Pine vs Gray Dogwood - TreeTime.ca

Korean Pine vs Gray Dogwood

Pinus koraiensis

Cornus racemosa

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Korean Pine
Gray Dogwood

Korean Pine is an attractive conifer suitable for shelterbelts, privacy screens, and ornamental planting. This tree is especially prized for its pine nuts. Korean Pine nuts are larger than most other species. They can be used in salads, pesto sauce, and other foods.

This conifer is generally tolerant of urban conditions but much prefers cool summer climates.

Gray dogwood is a thicket-forming, deciduous shrub with greenish-white blossoms in open, terminal clusters. Young twigs are red and the fruit pedicels remain conspicuously red into late fall and early winter.

Fruit itself is a white, 1/4 in. drupe that usually does not remain on the shrub for long.

Great for naturalizing wild areas, this shrub attracts birds and other wildlife.

Korean Pine Quick Facts

Gray Dogwood Quick Facts

Zone: 3a
Zone: 4a
Height: 18 m (60 ft)
Height: 3 m (10 ft)
Spread: 9 m (30 ft)
Spread: 3 m (10 ft)
Light: full sun
Light: any
Moisture: dry, normal
Moisture: any
Growth rate: slow
Growth rate: slow
Life span: long
Life span: medium
Suckering: medium
Maintenance: medium


Foliage: long blue-green needles
Fall colour: deep, reddish puple
Nuts: large edible seeds
Cones: attractive edible pine nuts
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


Other Names: chinese pinenut