tree identification forestry career development event
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Tree Identification
Forestry Career Development Event
Deciduous Trees
Trees that losses their leaves in the Fall
Simple Leaves
American Beech
American HornbeamSmooth bark that looks like muscles
Black Cherry
Most likely will have black spots on leaves
Black Tupelo
Blackjack Oak
Eastern Redbud
Flowering Dogwood
Laurel Oak
Live Oak
Pin Oak
Post Oak
Red Maple
Red Mulberry
Leaves have three different shapes
River Birch
Has exfoliating bark
Sassafras
Leaves have three different shapes
Sourwood
Southern Bayberry
Southern Magnolia
Southern Red Oak
Has hairs on the end of lobes
Swamp Chestnut Oak
Sweetbay
Sweetgum
Can have corky projectiles on stems, look like wings
Sycamore
Leaves can be very large
Turkey Oak
Water Oak
White Oak
Bark is light in color
Willow Oak
Winged Elm
Most stems will have corky projectiles that look like wings
Yellow Hawthorn
Yellow-Poplar
Compound Leaves
Boxelder
Honeylocust
Has large seed pods and large thorns, double pinnately compound
Pecan
13 leaflets normally
Mockernut Hickory
7 leaflets, where stems are broken has unique smell
Red Buckeye
Leaves are arrange in an arc from same spot
Shagbark Hickory
5 leaflets, has unique smells where stem is broken
Evergreen
American Holly
Broadleaf evergreen, edges are pointed
Baldcypress
Eastern Hemlock
Eastern Redcedar
Leyland Cypress
Loblolly Pine
Needles are in bundles of 3
Longleaf Pine
Needles are in bundles of 3
Pond Pine
Shortleaf Pine
In bundles of 2 and 3
Slash Pine
In bundles of 2 and 3
Cabbage Palmetto
State Tree, palm tree