Transcript of Horse Chestnut large, 7-leaflet, palmately-compound leaves leaves have impressed veins fruits are...
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- Horse Chestnut large, 7-leaflet, palmately-compound leaves
leaves have impressed veins fruits are the most spiny of all
Aesculus each leaflet is 4" to 10" long and obovate with an
acuminate tip
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- commonly 50' to 75' tall, but 100' specimens are possible Bark
exfoliates in plates on older branches and the trunk to reveal
showy orange bark underneath most of the bark is dark gray and
brown Fruit 2" to 2.5" diameter capsules with 1 or 2 seeds
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- Ironwood Males in persistent to 1 inch catkins, in clusters of
3 (resembling a bird's toes); females in slender, light green inch
catkins, appearing in spring. Alternate, simple, 2 to 4 inches,
oblong with narrowed tips and doubly toothed edges.
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- Light brown to reddish- brown, finely divided into thin scales
that peel away from the trunk, as if shredded by a cat's claws.
Mature Size: 20 to 30 feet in height and 7 to 10 inches in
diameter.
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- Japanese Knotweed Height - Individual stems are 3-9 feet tall
depending on the vigor of the colony. Stem - The hollow, bamboo-
like stems are erect and unbranched or with a few branches toward
the tip.
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- Leaves - Leaves are alternate on the stem, simple, 4-6 inches
long and almost as wide, and dark green. Japanese knotweed leaves
are abruptly squared-off (truncate) at the base
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- Japanese Larch Needles: Deciduous, appearing singly on new
growth and in whorls on older growth, 1 to 1 1/4 inches long, green
to glaucous blue-green in color.
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- Bark: On young trees the bark is scaly and gray, later becoming
furrowed with a reddish brown inner bark. Form: Well formed, with a
straight stem and pyramidal crown. Lateral branches commonly
droop.
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- Black Locust Black Locust is a medium-sized tree, growing up to
80 feet tall. It is easily recognized by its leaves and paired
spines up to inch long leaves of this tree are pinnately compound,
with (7-19) leaflets on one main stem. Leaflets are always paired,
except for the one on the end of the leaf. Leaf color is
bluish-green on top, and pale underneath. The entire leaf is 6 to
12 inches long. Leaflets are oval-shaped and less than 2 inches
long with no teeth and a bristle tip.
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- Black Locust bark is light gray with deep furrows. Spines grow
on twigs, close to where the leaves are attached. They are always
in pairs. Locust fruits are pods, and Black Locust has dark brown
pods up to 4 inches long.
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- Honey Locust Leaf: Alternate, pinnately compound, 5 to 8 inches
long, with 15 to 30 leaflets or bipinnately compound with 4 to 7
pairs of minor leaflets. Leaflets are 1/2 to 1 1/2 inches long,
ovate to elliptical in shape, green to yellow-green. A very
distinctive, 6 to 8 inches long, flattened, red- brown, leathery
pod that becomes dry and twisted
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- Bark: Initially, gray-brown to bronze, and smooth with many
horizontal lenticels, later breaking into long, narrow, curling
plates. Often displaying clusters of large, branched thorns on
trunk. Form: A medium size tree with a typically short bole and an
airy, spreading crown, reaches up to 80 feet tall.
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- Ash-Leafed Maple (Box Elder) Leaves pinnately compound and
opposite, usually 5 leaflets; often resembles poision ivy, which
has alternate, pinnately (3 leaflets) compound leaves. Twigs -
moderate to very stout, smooth and covered with a waxy film giving
the twig a shiny green to purple color.
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- Bark - smooth on younger trees but soon developing narrow
ridges and shallow furrows. Ridges and furrows are interlacing.
Bark on mature trees is dark brown. Boxelder grows commonly along
the banks of streams and rivers, and may occur as a weedy
species
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- Norway Red Sugar
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- Norway Maple Leaves: paired, deciduous, dark green, palmate
(like a hand), broader across than from base to tip, marginal teeth
with long hair-like tips. samaras joined broadly at nearly 180
angle; milky sap will ooze from cut veins or petiole.
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- up to 90 ft. in height with broadly-rounded crown; bark is
smooth at first but becomes black, ridged and furrowed with age;
milky sap.
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- Red Maple opposite, 2" to 4" long, 3 or 5-lobed medium green
upper leaf color, gray-green or frosty underside Red maple grows in
wet or moist soils on river banks and in swamps along with other
hardwoods such as cottonwoods, oaks, black ash, and black tupelo
but may also be found in uplands and dry ridges.
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- Red Maple becomes more spreading with age, eventually
developing a more or less rounded or oval outline a medium to large
tree, 40' to 70' tall, but can be over 100' tall ashy-gray
bark
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- Sugar Maple Leaf: Opposite, simple and palmately veined, 3 to 6
inches long, 5 delicately rounded lobes, entire margin; green
above, paler below Fruit: Two-winged horseshoe-shaped samaras about
1 inch long, appearing in clusters, brown when mature in in the
fall.
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- Bark: Variable, but generally brown, on older trees it becomes
darker, develops furrows, with long, thick irregular curling
outward, firm ridges. Form: Medium to tall tree (to 100 feet) with
very dense elliptical crown.