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Pat B:
As far as US dogwood trees there are 2 I know of, C. florida(flowering dogwood), C. alternafolia(alternate leaf dogwood). Cornus alternafolia has a smooth bark, flowering dogwood bark is what you posted. The other US dogwoods are shrub type dogwood(ie. red osier, silky dogwood, gray dogwood, rough leaf dogwood, etc) or even a ground cover type, C. canadensis(bunchberry) native to the Southern Canada and ajoining states from Maryland to the NW US. 

boughnut:
Thanks again pat you sure are a welth of knoledge evey time you post on here almost I learn somthing new.  I hope you have a good season this year.  I will try to get some pictures of the bark and leaves before I cut but It is very smooth bark like poplar and the leaves are identical in shape and the vains are similar to the other dog wood they are just nearly twice the size.

thanks again

Pat B:
Unless it is Kousa dogwood(C. kousa, Chinese) it is probably alternafolia. That is the only American dogwood that has alternate leaves, unlike the others with opposite leaves and the tree grows in tiers with branching then an upward shoot and more branching, similar to the shape of a Japanese pagoda. It was named Pagoda dogwood when it was found in Japan but then it was realized it was a US native that had been imported to Japan.  ::)
  Kousa dogwood has smooth bark and round pink to red fruit about 1" in diameter. The fruit should be present now.

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