Crepe Myrtle tree / Crape Myrtle tree
(also in
pink or
red)
[Lagerstroemia species]
*8
-- Leaves: Simple, Smooth edged, Unlobed, Football shaped.
-- Curved leaf veins.
-- White Flowers: 1-petaled, Wavy shaped.
-- Bark: Flakes off to become smooth, reddish and gray-green.
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What is the flower shape ?
Black Locust tree / Yellow Locust tree / False Acacia tree
[Robinia pseudoacacia]
*3 p.304, 442, 507, 526
-- White Flowers: 2-petaled, heart/orchid/oval shaped flower petals.
-- There is a deep cleft in each petal.
-- Leaves: Unlobed, smooth edged, compound.
-- Leaflets: Opposite, multiple oval shaped.
-- Edible: Flowers.
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What is the flower shape ?
Catalpa tree / Catawba-tree / Cigartree /
Hardy Catalpa tree / Indian-bean tree / Northern Catalpa tree /
Western Catalpa tree / Bait tree / Worm tree
[Catalpa speciosa]
*3 p.97, 441, 664
-- White Flowers: 4-petaled, with yellow and purple stripes.
-- Bell shaped blossoms, 2" long, in upright clusters.
-- Seeds: Bean-like seed pods, 8"+ long, hanging down.
-- Leaves: Smooth edged, unlobed, large spade or heart shaped, 3 at a node.
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Russian Olive tree / Oleaster tree / Persian Olive tree /
Silver Berry tree / Senjed tree / Senjid tree / Sinjid tree
[Elaeagnus angustifolia]
*3 p.100, 392, 609
-- White Flowers: 4 petaled, horn shaped with star shaped flare.
-- Leaves: grayish-green, unlobed, smooth edged, oblong shaped.
-- Leaf has many tiny white dots on top, brown dots underneath.
-- Fruit: Pea to marble sized, oval shaped, hard berry.
-- Bark: gray-brown and smooth on young limbs.
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Ohio Buckeye tree / Fetid Buckeye tree /
American Horse Chestnut tree
(also in
green or
yellow)
[Aesculus glabra]
*3 p.359, 382, 530, 583
-- White Flowers: White, 4-5-petaled, frilly fan shaped.
-- Blossoms may have red or yellow blots.
-- Leaves: Compound, palmate with 5 football shaped leaflets.
-- Leaflets: Toothed. New leaves are red colored.
-- Nuts: Sharp points on hull. Shiny brown seed with whitish round spot.
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Lilac bush
(also in
pink or
violet)
[Syringa vulgaris]
*4 p.120
-- White Flowers: 4-petaled, clusters of Fan shaped.
-- Leaves: smooth edged, unlobed, spade shaped.
-- Berries: Hard, oblong, green turning to red, brown tipped.
-- Bark: Motled.
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Flowering Dogwood tree / Whipple-tree
(also in
pink or
yellow)
[Cornus florida]
*3 p.76, 454, 554, 579, 615
-- White Flowers: 4-petaled, Dimpled, Fan shaped.
-- Leaves: Simple, Smooth edged, Unlobed, Football (Acute) shaped.
-- Curved leaf veins.
-- Berries: Hard, oblong, green turning to red, brown tipped.
-- Bark: Motled.
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What is the flower shape ?
Blueberry bush / Highbush Blueberry / High Blueberry /
Swamp Blueberry / Blue Huckleberry / Swamp Huckleberry /
Tall Huckleberry
(also in
green)
[Vaccinium corymbosum]
*1 p.232, 657, 508
-- White Flowers: 5-petaled, torpedo shaped flowers.
-- Leaves: Smooth edged, unlobed, football shaped.
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Bradford Pear tree / Callery Pear tree
[Pyrus calleryana]
*8
-- White Flowers: 5-petaled, star/horn shaped flowers.
-- Leaves: Finely tooth edged, unlobed, spade or blunt shaped.
-- Fruit: Inedible, hard, round, tan colored.
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Shagbark Hickory tree
[Carya ovata]
*3 p.344, 537, 608, 352
-- White Flowers: White with tints of yellow-green.
-- Bark: Medium gray with shaggy, peeling-off appearance on older trees.
-- Leaves: Laterally compound with usually 5 (3-7) opposite leaflets.
-- Leaflets: Tooth edged, unlobed, football shaped.
-- Leaflets turn yellow-brown in autumn. End 3 are larger than base 2.
-- Nut: Smooth, woody nut inside of a thick, 4-segmented, smooth-ish green husk.
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Smooth Azalea tree
(also in
pink)
[Rhododendron arborescens]
*5 p.300-301
-- White Flowers: 5-petaled, wavy fan shaped flowers with bright red stamens.
-- Leaves: Smooth edged, unlobed, compound 5 football shaped leaflets.
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Common Apple tree
[Malus sylvestris | Malus pumila]
*3 p.133, 456, 570, 491
-- White Flowers: 5-oval-petaled, fan shaped flowers.
-- Before the flowers open, the flower buds are red.
-- Leaves: Fine tooth edged, unlobed, football shaped.
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Cherry tree
[Prunus serotina]
*3 p.136, 447, 548, 506
-- White Flowers: 5-petaled, fan shaped flowers.
-- Leaves: Fine tooth edged, unlobed, spade shaped.
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Elderberry tree / American Black Elderberry tree /
Black Elder tree / Common Elder tree
[Sambucus canadensis]
*1 p.336, 413, 539, 669
-- White Flowers: 5-petaled, fan shaped, 1/4" in diameter.
-- Flowers are grouped in an umbrella shaped cluster.
-- 5 sepals with white stems and round creamy white anthers.
-- Leaves: Compound, pinnate, with 5, 7, or 9 leaflets.
-- Leaflets: Unlobed, fine tooth edged, football shaped.
-- Berries: Round, dark blue/purple, 1/8" in diameter.
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Arrowwood tree / Arrowwood Viburnum tree /
Roughish Arrowwood tree / Southern Arrowwood tree
[Viburnum dentatum]
*1 p.213, 452
-- White Flowers: 5-petaled, fan shaped, in umbrella shaped clusters.
-- 5 longish white stamens between the petals
-- Leaves: Opposite, unlobed, large tooth edged, spade shaped.
-- There is a large tooth at the end of each major vein.
-- Berries: Dark blue-black.
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-- Fan shaped flowers with 5 white, longish stamens
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-- Flowers are grouped into an umbrella shaped cluster
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-- These flowers have not yet opened
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-- Spade shaped leaves with a large tooth at the end of each major vein
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-- Opposite leaves
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-- Bush or shrub in overall appearance
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Magnolia tree
(also in
pink)
[Magnolia species]
*8
-- Leaves: Simple, unlobed, smooth edged, shiny, football shaped.
-- White Flowers: 8-petaled, large, fan shaped.
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