Arboretum tour botany 410 -Ornamental tree

a short walk through the arboretum introducing you to many of the more common ornamental trees

Arboretum tour botany 410 -Ornamental tree

Yakima, Washington 98901, United States

Created By: Cresanna Zintzun

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Created for Botany 410 this is a tour of ornamental trees with specific traits used to help identify these trees


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deciduous Tree with  leaves, up to 20 cm (7.9 in) long and equally wide, with five palmate lobesThe basal lobes are relatively small, while the upper lobes are larger and deeply notched. In contrast with the angular notching of the silve... Read more
leaves are generally 7–12 cm (3–4.5 in) long and 4–6 cm (1.5–2.5 in) broad, deeply lobed on each side of the central vein; the upper surface is glossy dark green, the undersurface is paler and velvety. acorns are 10–20 millime... Read more
branchlets that typically hang downwards, and the largest cones of any spruce, 9–17 cm (3 1⁄2–6 3⁄4 in) long. The leaves are needle-like with blunt tips,[5] 12–24 mm (15⁄32–15⁄16 in) long, quadrangular in cross-section... Read more
lobed and nearly sessile (very short-stalked) leaves 7–14 cm (2.8–5.5 in) long acorns are 2–2.5 cm (0.79–0.98 in) long, pedunculate (having a peduncle or acorn-stalk, 3–7 cm (1.2–2.8 in) long) with one to four acorns on ea... Read more
leaves are 8–20 centimetres (3.1–7.9 in) long and 3–6 centimetres (1.2–2.4 in) wide, with 14-20 small saw-tooth like triangular lobes on each side, with the teeth of very regular shape. acorn, maturing about 18 months after pollin... Read more
The leaf base is typically more rounded. The veins and sinuses are regular. Acorns with no stalks or with short stalks less than 8 mm long. The acorns turn chestnut brown in the fall. The leaves have sharp teeth but no bristles
leaves are glossy green, 7–13 cm (2 3⁄4–5 in) long and 5–10 cm (2–4 in) broad, lobed, with five or seven lobes, and deep sinuses between the lobes. Each lobe has 3-7 bristle-tipped teeth. The leaf is nearly hairless, except f... Read more
medium to large sized tree deciduous leaves arranged oppositely on the twig. They are typically 5–10 cm (2–4 in) long and wide with 3-5 palmate lobes with a serrated margin. The sinuses are typically narrow, but the leaves can exhibit... Read more
leaves are simple, alternate, usually lanceolate, unlobed, and often with nectaries on the leaf stalk. The flowers are usually white to pink, sometimes red, with five petals and five sepals. There are numerous stamens. Shrubs or trees with ... Read more
Please note that there are MANY varieties of this tree- all have DEEPLY lobed leaves that can look like palm tree leaves leaves are 4–12 cm long and wide, palmately lobed with five, seven, or nine acutely pointed lobes. The flowers are p... Read more
white peeling bark on the trunk. This bark is not papery- more like cardboard… The twigs are slender and often pendulous and the leaves are roughly triangular with doubly serrate margins and turn yellow in autumn before they fall. The flo... Read more
densely growing horizontal branchesWaxy grey-green leaves, up to 3 cm (1 in) long, are arranged radially on the shoots which curve upwards. The pale brown cones are up to 10 cm (4 in) long. The branches with leaves are sharp to the touc... Read more
The bark is a light ash-gray and peels somewhat from the top, bottom and/or sides leaves grow to be 5 to 8.5 inches (13–22 cm) long and 2.75 to 4.5 inches (7.0–11.4 cm) wide and have a deep glossy green upper surface. They usually t... Read more
red oak is easy to recognize by its bark, which features bark ridges that appear to have shiny stripes down the center. Alternate, seven to nine-lobed, five to ten inches long, four to six inches broad; seven to eleven lobes tapering gradua... Read more
leaves are 3–6 in (7–15 cm) long and 2–5 in (5–13 cm) broad, variable in shape, with a lobed margin. acorns are very large, 0.75–2 in (2–5 cm) long and 0.75-1.5 in (2–4 cm) broad, having a large cup that wraps much of ... Read more

 

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