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1 Urban Tree ID! Rugrat Love Sap Shackers Team Winners Team LDD Bubbles!

2 Eastern Cottonwood Silvery-white bark Twigs are grayish yellow, stout Triangular Leaf

3 Eastern Redbud Alternate, heart shaped leaves Dark colored, smooth bark Flowers are light, magenta-pink

4 Eastern Hemlock Slightly toothed leaves Conifer

5 Eastern Whitepine Slender, long cones Needles in bundles of five

6 Mugo Pine Symmetrical, brown cones Needles in bundles of two (MU-GO=Two Syllables)

7 Ponderosa Pine Thick, cinnamon colored bark (older trees) or black/reddish brown (younger trees) Long, needles, bundles of two or three

8 Oaks Amanda, Darcell, Raul, & Jake

9 White Oak 5-9 in. long, 2-4 in. wide leaves –5-9 blunt ended lobes Bark is light grey and divided by shallow fissures 1 in. acorns

10 Bur Oak Narrow based Large apex Bark is cracked and flaky Fuzzy acorns

11 Chinkapin Oak Common Name:Chinkapin Oak Latin Name:Quercus muehlenbergii Leaf Type: Deciduous Attributes: Texas native, reliable fall color, seeds or fruit eaten by wildlife Features: Attractive, light-colored bark; deep green leaf color creates a lush appearance. Fun Fact: Good for limestone soils; excellent shade tree! Problems: Fallen acorns can be a nuisance.

12 Red Oak Leave have bristle tipped lobes Dark bark Egg shaped acorns

13 Black Oak Leaf lobes are sharply pointed Dark bark and a blocked pattern One side of leaf is glossy, other side fuzzy

14 Chestnut Oak Evenly and bluntly toothed leaves Bark has distinctive deep ridges

15 Red Maple (Acer rubrum) Rounded leaves RED ( 3 lobes) Woody

16 Silver Maple ( Acer saccharinum) Shaggy Bark Silver back Simple leaf Deep sinuses

17 Norway maple (Acer platanoides) White sap at stem of leaf Has two pointy lobes at the bottom of leaf Bark is like a cracked skin Similar shape to a silver maple Not used for syrup Smaller leaves

18 Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum) Plate like bark 3 to 5 lobes Shallow and smooth lobes

19 Sweet Gum (Liquidambar styraciflua) Leaves alternate on branches Sap is clear brownish- yellow color

20 Sycamore (platanus occidentalis) Flaky bark Greenish white to brown bark Alternate leaves on branch

21 Grey Birch Deciduous tree catkins 5-8 cm longcatkins LEAVES: 5-7.5 cm long by 4-6 cm wide alternately arranged ovate tapering to an elongated tip

22 Elm Deciduous LEAVES alternate simple, single- or, most commonly, doubly- serrate marginsdoubly- serrate usually asymmetric at the base acuminate at the apexacuminateapex

23 White Birch slender trunk of perhaps a foot in width and noticeably drooping branches throughout its canopy. Usually has multiple trunks Smallest leaves of the 3 other birch

24 Black Birch Tree Identification: Black Birch tree has shinny reddish brown, with prominent horizontal pores. It has Cone-like, scaly, brown, 1 to 1½ inches long, containing very small 2-winged nutlets. Alternate, simple, oval to oblong, 2½ to 5 inches, with doubly toothed edges; leaf stems hairy; tufts of hair near midveins on the undersides of the leaves

25 Black Walnut Grow mainly in the Eastern and Central United States. Often stand alone in the forest because their roots and dead leaves produce juglone, a toxic chemical that can kill other vegetation.

26 River Birch Tree Their leaves change to yellow in the Fall. Leaves are oval with a double serrated edge. They have a flower called a Catkin. The flower are reddish- yellow in color. The bark of a young one is a salmon color. The older ones have a grayish-brown bark.

27 Green Ash Compound leaf When ripped off it looks like it has a smiley face

28 White Ash Long and big leafs Always larger the Green Ash Turns purple

29 Buckeye Brownish/gray bark Narrow vertical groves between scales Yellow/green flowers Leaf-five elliptical leaflets Brown nut

30 Honey locust Leaves are alternating Branches have thorns 4-8in Green leaves Dark colored fruit

31 Bald cypress Leaves-linear and feather like Crown-flatten

32 Larch Needles turn yellow Larch cones-green,purple or brown Leaves are needle like


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