Please give me the Bible reference that states it was a dogwood tree or that Christ spoke anything to any tree.

I will pray for you adirondackjayhawk. You have been drinking the koolaid that Oprah sells and you will wind up in hell with her.

Does it really matter whether it was a cross or a stake? Sometime terms are used interchangeably. A cross could still be referred to as a tree because it was wood which at some time was a tree. Just be glad he was hung there for all of our sins.