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Black Walnut: Deciduous leaves are 12-24 inches long, with 15-23 almost sessile leaflets, smooth above and hairy below. The nearly spherical fruit, 1.5 to 2 inches in diameter, has a thick, semi-fleshy, yellowish-green husk enclosing the woody, corrugated nut and its sweet, oily seed. Bark of mature trees is furrowed and dark brown to black. Grows 70-100 feet tall and 2-3 feet in diameter. |
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White Ash: Deciduous leaves are 8-12 inches long, usually with 7 oval to oblong leaflets, 3-5 inches long and 1.5-3 inches wide, margins smooth or finely toothed. Dioecious, flowers appearing before leaves. Samaras 1-2 inches long, with wing extending only part way along seed. White Ash has gray bark, with diamond shaped ridges appearing on the trunks of older trees. Up to 80 feet tall and 3 feet in diameter. |
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Eastern Cottonwood: Deciduous leaves are roughly triangular, 3-6 inches long and 4-5 inches wide, with coarsely rounded marginal teeth. They are smooth and lustrous green above and paler below with a flattened stem. The seed-bearing capsules are 4-3 valved, 0.3-1 inch long. Bark of mature trunks is dark gray and furrowed or ridged. Height of 75-100 feet and 3-4 feet in diameter. |
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Quaking Aspen: Deciduous leaves are nearly circular, 1-3 inches in diameter, with small, rounded marginal teeth and long, slender, fattened stems. They are lustrous green above, pale silvery below. The foliage quivers in the slightest breeze, hence the common name. In fall, the leaves turn brilliant gold or yellow. The smooth, greenish-white colored bark is marked by black, warty patches. Grow 20-69 feet tall and 1-2 feet in diameter with narrow, round-topped crown of rather stout branches. |
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Black Cherry: Has narrowly oval to oblong, deciduous leaves, 2-6 inches long and 1-1.5 inches wide with fine marginal teeth. White flowers about 0.3 inches in diameter, in racemes 4-6 inches long. Fruit 0.5 inches in diameter, black with dark purple flesh. Bark of young trees is smooth, dark reddish brown to black and marked with horizontal lenticels, older trees have raised, scaly patches. Grows 50-60 feet tall and 1-3 feet in diameter. |
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Black Willow: Has lanceolate leaves 3-6 inches long, 0.5-0.8 inches wide with finely toothed margins. They are smooth and green, more lustrous above and paler below. Twigs of the current year are a reddish to gray-brown. Bark of large trees is dark brown to black and heavily ridged. Usually grows 30-40 feet tall and 12-14 inches in diameter, with an irregular crown and often several trunks. |
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Eastern White Pine: Needles in bundles of 5 are 3-5 inches long, soft and flexible. They remain on the branches one to two years. Fine white lines of stomata are on two surfaces of each needle. The stalked, curved cones are 4-8 inches long and their scales lack spines. ON young trees the bark is smooth and gray, on mature trunks it is broken into small rectangular blocks. This larges conifer in the Northeast grows 75-100 feet tall, 2-4 feet in diameter with a pyramidal grown of whorled horizontal branches. |
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White Spruce: Needles are 1 inch long, 4-sided and crowded on the upper side of the branch. New twigs are not hairy. Cones are 1-2.5 inches long with thin, woody, but flexible scales, smooth on the rounded margin. Outer bark is ash brown, inner bark silvery when freshly exposed. White spruce is found along the shores of streams and lakes, growing 75 feet tall and 2 feet in diameter. |
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Eastern Hemlock: Has flat needles, 0.3-0.7 inches long, tapering from base to apex, with two white bands of stomata below. Ovoid cones, 0.5-0.8 inches long, are attached by a short, slender stalk, outer margin of scales is smooth. Bark on mature trees is dark purplish brown, scaly and deeply furrowed. Grows 60-75 feet tall and 1-3 feet in diameter with a dense pyramidal “lacy” crown. |
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Balsam Fir: Needles 0.5-2 inches long, flat, blunt, or notched at the tip, with two silvery bands of stomata on the underside only. Needles 2-ranked except on topmost branches, where they are crowded on upper-side of the twigs. Cylindrical, purplish cones are 2-4 inches long. On young trees, bark has many resin blisters, on mature trees it is gray to reddish brown and in scaly plates. Grows 40-60 feet tall and 1-1.5 feet in diameter. |
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Phone: 585-473-2120 x3 Fax: 585-473-2124 |
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Page updated: July 2007 |
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