Abstract: An interspecific F.sub.1 hybrid of the species Cornus kousa and Cornus florida exhibiting large overlapping white bracts and floriferous in a period from about May 18 to about June 3, the floral display ending about the time plants of C. kousa begin their floral display, plants of this cultivar being similar to its seed parent, C. kousa, as regards its upright vase shaped habit when youngbut intermediate plants of the two parent species in the nature of the overwintering flower budds, together with freedom from infestation by dogwood borer and "dogwood decline".