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Black Oak: Leaves resemble those of the Northern Red Oak but have 5-7 lobes separated by variable sinuses and are coppery with auxiliary tufts of hair below. Ovoid acorns, 0.5-0.8 inches long have deep, bowl-like scaly cups. Bark is black, ridged and furrowed. Grows 50-70 feet tall and 1-3 feet in diameter, with a rounded crown. |
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Norway Maple: Introduced shade tree with rounded crown of dense foliage and with milky sap in leafstalks. Height – 60’, Diameter – 2’. Leaves: opposite, 4-7” long and wide, palmately 5-lobed, scattered long teeth, 5 or 7 main veins from notched base. Dull green with sunken veins above, paler and hairless beneath. Bright yellow in autumn. Bark: gray or brown, becoming rough and furrowed into narrow ridges. Fruit: 1-2 “ long paired keys with long wings and flattened bodies, light brown, hanging on long stalk, maturing in summer. Found on roadsides in humid temperate regions. Fast-growing and tolerant of city smoke and dust. |
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Red Maple: Large tree with narrow or rounded, compact crown and red flowers, fruit, leafstalks and autumn foliage. Height – 60-90’, Diameter – 2 ½’. Leaves: opposite, 2 ½-4” long and nearly as wide, broadly ovate, with 3 shallow short-pointed lobes, irregularly and wavy saw-toothed with 5 main veins from base, long red or green leafstalk, dull green above, whitish and hairy beneath, turning red, orange and yellow in autumn. Bark: gray, thins, smooth, becoming fissured into long thin scaly ridges. Fruit: ¾-1” long including long wing, paired forking keys, red, 1-seeded, maturing in spring. Wet or moist soils of stream banks, valleys, swamps and uplands and sometimes on dry ridges, in mixed hardwood forests. It has the greatest north-south distribution of all tree species along the East Coast. |
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Sugar Maple: Large tree with rounded, dense crown and striking, multicolored foliage in autumn. Height: 70-100’, Diameter: 2-3’. Leaves: opposite, 3 ½-5 ½” long and wide, palmately lobed with 5 deep long-pointed lobes, few narrow long-pointed teeth, 5 main veins from base, leafstalks long and often hairy. Dull dark green above, paler and often hairy on veins beneath, turning deep red, orange and yellow in autumn. Bark: light gray, becoming rough and deeply furrowed into narrow scaly ridges. Fruit: 1-1 ¼’ long including long wing, paired forking keys, brown, 1-seeded, maturing in autumn. Moist soils of uplands and valleys, sometimes in pure stands. |
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Horsechesnut: Introduced shade and ornamental tree with spreading, elliptical to rounded crown of stout branches and coarse foliage. Height: 70’, Diameter: 2’. Leaves: opposite, palmately compound with leafstalks 3-7” long, 7 leaflets (sometimes 5) spreading fingerlike, 4-10” long, 1-3 ½” wide, obovate or elliptical, broadest toward abrupt point, tapering to stalk less base, saw-toothed. Dull dark green above, paler beneath. Bark: gray or brown, thin, smooth, becoming fissured and scaly. Flowers: 1” long, narrowly bell-shaped, with 4-5 spreading narrow white petals, red and yellow spotted at base, many flowers in upright branched clusters 10” long, bloom in late spring. Fruit: 2-2 ½” in diameter, a brown spiny or warty capsule, splitting into 2-3 parts, 1-2 large rounded shiny brown poisonous seeds, maturing in late summer. A shade and street tree in rich moist soils. |
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White Oak: Leaves are deciduous, 5-9 inches long and 2-4 inches wide with 7 to 9 rounded lobes divided by narrow, variable sinuses often extending to nearly midrib. The oblong acorns, 0.5 to 0.8 inches long, are set in a bowl-like cup covered with warty scales. The gray bark is in narrow, vertical blocks of scaly plates. Grows 80 to 100 feet tall and 3-4 feet in diameter with a wide spreading crown. |
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Northern Red Oak: Leaves are deciduous, 5-8 inches long and 4-5 inches wide with 7 to 11 pointed, toothed lobes separated by variable sinuses that extend halfway to the midrib. The leaves turn red in the fall. The oblong-ovoid acorns are 0.8 to 1 inch long, with a flat, saucer-like cup at their base. The dark brown to black bark is ridged and furrowed. Grows 50-70 feet tall and 1-3 feet in diameter with a rounded crown. |
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American Elm: Deciduous, has elliptical to oblong-ovate leaves, 4-6 inches long and 1-3 inches wide. Greenish, wafer-like fruits, 0.5 inches long, usually mature as the leaves unfold; papery wing surrounding the flat seed is oblong, the tip deeply notched and the edges hairy. On mature trees, bark is dark gray, in flat-topped ridges separated by roughly diamond-shaped areas. Grows 80 to 120 feet tall and 2-4 feet in diameter, its vase-shaped form is recognizable even at a distance. |
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