I have a Kousa Dogwood tree that never bloomed.?

Question

It is over 5 yrs old. Never white flowers. Only gets red grapelike fruit. why does it never flower.

Answer 1

"Grapelike"?

A dogwood will get red berries.  They will be in flat clusters, though...I wouldn't think to call them "grapelike", since they're much smaller than grapes, and they don't form a hanging cluster.

But the second point - if you're getting fruit...then the flowers have to come first.  Flower have to not only bloom, but be pollinated to get fruit.  It's like a biological impossibility for a dogwood tree to get fruit without getting flowers earlier the same year.

So - 1) either you have one extremely special tree,

2) or it has flowered, but you didn't notice, or were out of town when it happened, 3) or you have a tree that is NOT a Kousa dogwood, and possibly whatever kind of flowers it has are insignificant enough that you didn't see them