Is mine bigger than yours?

[Deleted member 149229]

No, this ain’t a porn thread. This fall a landscaper asked me if I would cut down a dogwood against a house he was relandscaping. No problem, a dogwood, 10 seconds of cutting. Get to the house and rethought the 10 seconds. After I dropped the tree we pulled back all the rotted mulch and I took another cut at ground level. This was that cut.
Biggest dogwood I ever saw and it had leaves so yes, it’s a dogwood.

 

[fulladirt]

Hate to break it to you like this. But that ain't a dogwood.
That's a F****N DOGWOOD! Would like to have seen a before picture too.

 

[muddstopper]

Not unusual for size, altho with what ever kind of blight that seems to be killing dogwoods now, might become a rarity. Based on the 2.5in dia tobacco can, your round would be about 12in dia.

 

[Marley5]

WHOA !!! got several large one's " so i thought " in my yard.
Isn't Dogwood a high Btu wood ?

 

[Hinerman]

WHOA !!! got several large one's " so i thought " in my yard.
Isn't Dogwood a high Btu wood ?

Yes, comparable to white oak and shagbark hickory depending on which chart you look at...

 

[Hddnis]

I've seen many that big and maybe bigger when I lived in Oregon. They will reach at good hundred feet tall to get light in the woods.

But, yours is bigger because I don't have any that big on my property.

 

[rarefish383]

I've seen many that big and maybe bigger when I lived in Oregon. They will reach at good hundred feet tall to get light in the woods.

But, yours is bigger because I don't have any that big on my property.

WOW, the Eastern Dogwoods we have only get 15-20 feet high. So I did a search and found the Pacific Giant Dogwood. The US Forest Service gives it a height of 66 feet. That's a monster compared to ours, Joe.

 

[unclemoustache]

Yours is certainly bigger than mine.
But mine is still functioning perfectly. Yours is not.