From that day on, the dogwood was unable to grow straight and tall. Seeing that the dogwood was distraught over this misuse of its wood, Jesus promised that it would never again be used for this purpose. The cross used to crucify Jesus was supposedly made of dogwood. In 1955, Missouri honored the dogwood as its state tree, too.Īccording to the myth, the dogwood tree once grew straight and tall, rather than bent and twisted as it does now. North Carolina made the dogwood its state flower in 1941. The tree grew in popularity in the state and as a result, the dogwood became its state flower in 1918 and its state tree in 1956. Thomas Jefferson so loved dogwoods, he planted them extensively in the late 1770s at his home, Monticello, in Virginia. A special tobacco mixture made from the inner bark of the dogwood was used in the sacred pipe by the Potawatomi, Cheyenne, Apache and other tribes. They also made toothbrushes from dogwood. They created cutting tools, daggers and arrows, from its wood. Using nature as a guide, Native Americans used the spring blooms as a sign that it was time to plant the corn. In honor of the myth, there is a red-blossomed variety of the dogwood tree called the Cherokee. It is this act that is used to explain the red spots on the petals of the pale pink & the white dogwood blossoms. As she lay dying, she used the petals of the dogwood flower to stop the bleeding. He became jealous and, in a rage, killed the princess.
Folklore has it that: A beautiful Cherokee princess was once pursued by a Cherokee brave whose advances she resisted.
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