On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:42:02 +0000 (UTC), James Fidell said:

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] The stems definitely look smooth to me. What doesn't seem right for
] a dogwood is that the ones I've seen have stems that fork, rather like
] an enormous pepper plant. These don't appear have side-shoots at all.
]
]

James,

My Cornus Alba does indeed fork, but not the first year. It puts out long
straight stems, then the ones I don't lop off fork.

Anyway the OP will know if it's a dogwood soon enough, when the
flowers come in...

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