Alnus rugosa
Monoecious, reddish brown male flowers in 2" to 4" long catkins. Female flowers are an egg shaped strobile (cone). Alternate and finely serrate. Veins are straight and appressed above and projecting below. Thin and up to 3" long. Hardy [... more]
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Carya glabra
Alternate. Odd pinnately compound with 5 leaflets (may have 3). Non pubescent. Leaflets are relatively small. Native to high, dry sites. Very common species. Grows 60' to 80' tall. Has good yellow fall color. Monoecious. Catkins hang down in the ... [... more]
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Carya ovalis
Alternate. Odd pinnately compound with 7 leaflets. Non-pubescent or glabrous. Grows 60' to 80' tall. Native to high/dry sites where it often grows with Carya glabra. Some taxonomists lump red and pignut hickories together and make one species. ... [... more]
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Carya ovata
Alternate. Primarily 5 (7) leaflets that are very rounded. Serrations may be ciliate. Glabrous or non-pubescent underneath. Leaflets are almost sessile. Older trees have shaggy strips of bark that hang down and are very distinctive. Native to ... [... more]
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Carya pallida
Alternate. Odd pinnately compound with 7 leaflets (may have 5 or 9). Silver (glaucous) under leaflet with cross lines that make silver scales. Grows 60' to 80' tall. Native to high/dry sites. Has an imbricate bud (true hickory). Tap rooted, so it ... [... more]
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Franklinia alatamaha
Alternate. Obovate. Long cuneate base. Very short petiole. Good red fall color. Up to 6" in length. Requires moist acid soil. Does not tolerate wet feet. Discovered by John Bartram in Georgia around 1770. Bartram collected seed and carried them ... [... more]
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Juglans cinerea
Alternate. Odd pinnately compound leaf with up to 17 leaflets. Mustache on leaf scar. Very pubescent. Valvate buds. Pith is a dark brown and chambered. Grows 60' to 80' tall. A member of the Juglandaceae family. Not a common landscape tree. Oval ... [... more]
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Melia azedarach
Bi- (occasionally tri) pinnately compound. Leaflet sometimes winged. Yellow/green in color. Fruit is a yellow drupe. A bad landscape tree (suckers and short life span). Birds eat dried fruit that has a high alcohol content which leads to drunken ... [... more]
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Platycladus orientalis 'Bakeri'
Has juniper-like foliage than smells like pine when crushed. Is in the oriental arborvitae group (foliage is in upright, vertical lines). Good dark green color. Hardy to zone 6. Cultivar 'Berkman's Golden' has gold tinge to leaves. Used a lot in ... [... more]
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Populus deltoides
Deltoid (triangle) shaped with a flat petiole and serrated or more properly created (rounded points). Up to 10" in length. Looks like cotton balls blowing in the wind during the summer. Grows up to 6' per year. Indicates low, moist sites. Not a ... [... more]
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Populus nigra 'Italica'
Triangular. Smaller than the cottonwood. Flat petiole. Crenate margins. Up to 5" long. Grows like an exclamation point. Very narrow habit of growth. 60' tree would be only 10' wide. Used frequently because of growth habit, ease of transplanting, ... [... more]
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The Sycamore Leaf Beetle
The sycamore leaf beetle, Neochlamisus platani (Brown)1, occurs throughout much of the eastern U. S. from northern Florida to Massachusetts west to Illinois, Colorado, and Texas (3). This distribution corresponds fairly closely with the natural ... [... more]
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