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Horticulture II
Plant ID
Trees
Acer platanoides
• CN: Norway Maple
• Large deciduous tree 40-60’
• Leaves: opposite, 5-lobed, 4-7”
– dark green
– yellow in fall
• Flowers: small, yellow-green
– green-maroon buds
• Fruit: Samara
• Milky sap
Coruns kousa
• CN: Chinese Dogwood
• Small, deciduous
• Flower: white, pointed
– 4 bracts
• Fruit: red, pendant-like
• Leaves: dark green, elliptical
– reddish-purple in fall
Ginkgo biloba
• CN: Ginkgo
• Large, deciduous tree
• Leaves: bright green, alternate
– fan shaped
• Flowers: not ornamental; may not flower
until 20 years
• Fruit: on female tree only; naked seed
• Fall: yellow leaves; drop quickly
Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis
• CN: Thornless Honeylocust
• Medium, deciduous tree
• Leaves: green, alternate, pinnately compound
– glossy
– copper or yellow in fall
• Blooms: greenish-yellow in spring
– fragrant
• Fruit: brown or purple
– flat pods
Magnolia X soulangiana cv.
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CN: Saucer Magnolia
Small deciduous tree
Leaves: simple, ovate
Flower: “saucer and cup” shaped, 5-10”
– interior = white
exterior = pink – purple
• Fruit: red berry-like structure
Picea abies
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CN: Norway Spruce
Evergreen, pyramidal
Pendulous branchlets
Leaves: needles, stiff
Cones: ends of branches
– long, narrow
– pendulous
Platanus X acerifolia
• CN: London Plane Tree
• Large, deciduous
• Bark: brown, exfoliates to cream
underneath
• Leaves: dark green
– 3-5 lobed
– coarse margin teeth
• Fruit: fuzzy, long stalked ball
Quercus falcata
• CN: Southern Red Oak
• Large, deciduous
• Leaves: dark green
– bristle tipped lobes
– long hooked lobe & 2 shorter lobes on sides
• “turkey foot”
• Flowers: yellow-green catkins
• Acorns
Quercus nigra
• CN: Water Oak
• Medium, deciduous
• Leaves: 2-4”, lobe number varies
– rounded, entire, to 3 lobed
• Small acorns
• Flower: brown catkins
Tsuga Canadensis
• CN: Canadian Hemlock
• Evergreen, pyramidal
– soft, pendulous branches
• Leaves: fine needles, flat
– clustered in pairs
– spirally arranged
– dark green, 2 whitish band on underside
• Cones: small, round
Zelkova serrata
• CN: Zelkova
• Medium, deciduous
– short trunk
• Leaves: alternate, elliptical
– pointed tip, dark green
• Fruit: small drupe
• Bark: gray, exfoliates to orange inner bark
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