Macro Chinese Dogwood Fruit - Reynolda Garden, W-S, NC

This image should have been posted September 2nd, 2o15. 
 I took the left  image at Reynolda Garden in Winston-Salem on Saturday. However,  one of my neighbors has 2 of these Chinese dogwood trees.  Botanical name Kornus kousa.  The right image was taken this spring with the iPhone 5C native app. --no editing.   It blooms later than the flowering dogwood we are familiar seeing in NC in spring.  The left image is the fruit which appears late summer and into the fall. According to the Missouri Botanical Garden website these berries are exceptionally large (about 1.25 inches) and are edible (inner custard-like consistency) off the plant. Birds also love the fruit.  Elliptic-ovate, pointed, dark green leaves (to 4” long) turn orange-red to scarlet in autumn. The left image taken with Camera+ app, HDR, macro setting.   Edited with PSE 11: cropped, increased midtones, sharpened. 

Dogwood Blossoms: Chinese & White Regular Compared

The regular dogwoods bloom early April in my neighborhood.  I previously posted some examples of the red blossoms that have the petal shapes of the regular dogwood.   It is the lst week in May and the Chinese  dogwoods have started to bloom.  They have a more pointed leaf.  The regular dogwood photo has minor editing.  The Chinese dogwood I cropped slightly increased the shadows, added a saturated film filter which made the center more noticeable.  Both were taken with HDR mode.  Editing was done in PSE 11.  The blossoms for the Chinese dogwoods can have a light green tinge and never get as pure white as the regular dogwood. Both images were taken after 6 pm EDST.  I really like the lighting on the regular dogwood but did not notice it that much when I actually caaptured the image.