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Woody Plant Identification
Anacua
• Leaves are big and green and feels very
much like sandpaper.
Ash
• Smooth leaves with a white stem that has
long tear drop seeds in bunches.
Brasil
• Tree with black berries and long thorns
that have stemmed leaflets that grow out
of them.
Catclaw acacia
• Tree with strips and catclaw shaped thorns
going down the bark.
Cedar elm
• Tree that has serrated leaf margins with no
thorns.
Cenizo
• Tree with silverish-white leaves with purple
flowers and does not have thorns.
Ebony
• Tiny spike like thorns that are side-by-side
that have a opposite leaf pattern. This
tree also has large seed pods that form on
the branches.
Granjeno
• Thorns are in a V-shaped pattern which
will eventually turn into stems. The stems
are in a zig-zag shaped pattern with little
orange berries.
Guajillo
• Looks very similar to huisache but the
leaves are much larger and has small
black thorns.
Guayacan
• Tree like branches with no thorns. The
leaves resemble the shape of tiny moose
antlers.
Hackberry
• Tree leaves that are rough in texture and
have tiny little purple berrys and does not
have thorns.
Huisache
• Tree that has small V-shaped white thorns
with small leaves and has a reddish color
bark.
Lime Prickly Ash
• Tree with small thorns that have veins
going through the stem and leaves.
Live Oak
• Tree with smooth leaves that has small
acorn seeds growing from the stems.
Mesquite
• The tree’s leaves makes a wishbone
shaped pattern and the branches have
mid sized thorns growing from them.
Palo Verde
• A tree with green bark and has no thorns.
Retama
• Has green bark with yellowish thorns on
the stems.
Salt Cedar
• Tall tree with aqua color to grayish color
shoe string type leaves.
Tasajillo
• Cactus like tree with thorns on the stems
Texas Persimmon
• Tree with leaves that are cupped on the
leaf margins.
Wild Olive
• Tree with white flowers with a grayish
rough bark and large velvety leaves.