Week 7 ID

Deciduous Trees

Japanese MapleAcer palmatum

•Height: 8-20’•Spread: 10-15’•5-7 lobes; Green or Red leaves•Purple/red flower•Samara fruit•Very expensive (comes in many different varieties)•Shade

Norway MapleAcer platanoides

•Height: 60-80’•Spread: 50-70’•Greenish-yellow leaves•4-7 lobes with sharp serration•Shade

Red MapleAcer rubrum

•Height: 40-50’•Spread: 25-35’•Green leaves with red petioles•3-5 lobes•Red cluster flower before leaves•Sun-shade

River BirchBetula nigra

•Height: 20-40’•Spread: 16-20’•Alternate leaves and double serrate•Green, catkin flower•Part shade•Peeling bark•Multi-stemmed trunk

Eastern Red BudCercis canadensis

•Height: 20-30’•Spread: 15-25’•Cordate leaf (pink or green)•Pink cluster flowers•Green pod fruit•Zig-zag stem•Sun-part shade

Flowering DogwoodCornus florida

•Height: 15-30’•Spread: 15-20’•White, head shaped flower with brown indentions at the edge•Wavy leaves•Part shade-shade

Chinese DogwoodCornus kousa

•Height: 10-15’•Spread: 10’•Flower buds at mid-April•4 bracts that come to a point•Raspberry type fruit•Sun-part shade

GinkgoGinkgo baloba

•Height: 40-70’•Spread: 20-40’•Green fan shaped leaves; fall color is yellow•Plum like fruit in fall•Sun•Don’t plant female tree-IT STINKS!!

Thornless HoneylocustGleditsia tricanthos var. inermis•Height: 50-70’•Spread: 25-40’•Pinnately compound leaves 7-12” long•Twisted pod fruit•Sun

Crape MyrtleLagerstroemia indica

•Height: 15-25’•Spread: 5-15’•Medium green, ovate leaves•Panicle flower in white, pink, red or lavender•Flower of 100 days (chinese name)•Smooth multi-stemmed bark (only when pruned correctly)•Sun

SweetgumLiquidambar strycaflua

•Height: 60-100’•Spread: 50-75’•5-7 lobed, star shaped leaves•Synacarp in fall and winter•Part shade-sun

Saucer MagnoliaMagnolia x soulangiana cv.

•Height: 15-25’•Spread: 15-25’•Green, elliptical leaves•Flowers like a cup on a saucer in purple or white and appear before leaves in March•Sun-Part shade