30 Tree I.D test

Hackberry

ID Key: Smooth gray bark w/ corky warts

Eastern Hemlock

ID Key: Small, flat needles, "baby" pinecones

Black Locust

ID Key: Scary Tree, deeply furrowed weaving bark

Chinese Chestnut

ID Key: Spiny chestnuts, weaving furrowed bark

American Elm

ID Key: Serrated Leaves with curled tips

Sawtooth Oak

ID Key: Cluster of Imbricate buds, spiky cap, furrowed bark

Ginkgo

ID Key: Fan-shaped leaf, pink female seeds

Southern Magnolia

ID Key: Evergreee w/ dark green leaves, red pubescence on back of leaf

Willow Oak

ID Key: Long and skinny leaf, cluster of Imbricate buds

Pin Oak

ID Key: 5 bristle-tipped lobes, orange fissures in bark

Boxelder

ID Key: Light Gray Bark, compound ash-like leaves, red/ green stem understory

Sugar Maple

ID Key: Maple leaf shape, orange leaves, pointy brown imbricate buds

Paw Paw

ID Key: Hound ear leaves, naked bud

Horn Beam

ID Key: Understory tree, smooth bark, serrate rigid leaf like American elm

Redbud

ID Key: Heart shaped leaf, bean pod fruit, musclewood

American Sycamore

ID Key: Exfoliating camo pattern bark w/ smooth underneath bark

Osage Orange

ID Key: Giant green fruit

Spicebush

ID Key: Cintronella smell leaf, red berries

Eastern Red Cedar

ID Key: Reddish-brown bark, berries on branches

American Beech

ID Key: Spear-shaped imbricate buds, smooth light gray bark

Northern Red Oak

ID Key: Bristle tip on leaves, ski track bark

White Oak

ID Key: Peely Bark up top

Red Maple

ID Key: Red-tipped branch

Loblolly Pine

ID Key: 6-9-inch needles that are in clumps of 3, sharp pinecones

Dogwood

ID Key: Green and red leaf, mushroom-like bud

Black Walnut

ID Key: Long, alternate, feather-compound leaves with 11-23 leaflets

Hickory

ID Key: Have an odd number of leaves (Opposite Arrangement), fuzzy petioles

White Ash

ID Key: Underside of leaves is smooth and whitish or grayish

Japanese maple

Understory tree leaves green or red, look like zaza

Yellow poplar

Big tree, u shaped leaf at top

Chestnut Oak

lobed smooth edges, with acorns

American holly

Red berries, spiky leaves