A Short Guide To Some Of Our

Favorite Trees

Class A (Big Canopy Trees)

Bur Oak (Quercus macrocarpa) Chinkapin Oak (Quercus muehlenbergii)

White Oak (Quercus alba) Shumard Oak (Quercus shumardii)

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London Planetree (Platanus x

acerifolia)

Shingle Oak (Quercus imbricaria)

Beech, European or American

(Fagus sylvatia or grandifolia)

Blackgum (Nyssa sylvatica)

American Sweetgum (Liquidambar

styraciflua)

Male Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)

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Class B (Medium Canopy Trees)

Hardy Rubber Tree (Eucommia ulmoides)

Sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum)

Parrotia (Parrotia persica) Hop Hornbeam (Ostrya virginiana)

Tulip Magnolia (Magnolia x soulangeana) American Hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana)3

Katsura (Cercidiphyllum japonicum) Elm 'Emerald Sunshine' (Ulmus propinqua)

Zelkova 'City Sprite' (Zelkova serrata) Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera)

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Class C (Small Canopy Trees)

Redbud (Native seedling) - 'Pink Pom Poms' - Appalachian Red'

- 'Rising Sun'

Kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa)

Serviceberry (Amelanchier) Fringetree (Chionanthus virginicus)

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Paperbark Maple (Acer griseum) Star Magnolia (Magnolia stellata)

Japanese Lilac Tree (Syringa reticulata)

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