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  • Wild Cherry

    Wild Cherry trunk and canopy

    Wild cherry (Prunus Avium – Wikipedia) is native to western Eurasia and naturalized elsewhere. The bark is smooth reddish-brown with prominent horizontal grey-brown horizontal lines on young trees, becoming thick dark blackish-brown and fissured on old trees. The leaves are alternate single egg shaped (simple ovoid-acute), 2-3/4 to 5-1/2 inches long and 1-1/2 to 2-3/4 inch wide, slightly shiny green on top and finely…

  • Hackberries

    Hackberries bark

    Hackberries (Genus Celtis – Wikipedia) is native from Tennessee to mid-lower peninsula Michigan and from Ohio to Kansas. Hackberry trees are very hearty, but prefer direct sun, so in Scarlett Mitchell Woods will grow slowly. Hackberry bark is described as forming characteristic corky ridges and warts on trunk and branches. The hackberry leaves are alternate, simple, with…

  • Black Cherry

    Black Cherry bark

    Black Cherry (Prunus serotina – Wikipedia) is native to eastern USA, from eastern Oklahoma and north of the middle of Florida. The Black Cherry tree is commonly referred to as the “potato chip tree”, because the bark of a mature tree is large broken patches with upturned edges. Black Cherry flowers have 5 small white…

  • American Hophornbeam

    American Hophornbeam

    American Hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana – Wikipedia) (aka Ironwood) is native to eastern USA, from east of the Mississippi and north of northern Florida. Hophornbeam bark looks like cat scratches and is frequently called cat scratch bark tree. Hophornbeam flowers are called catkins and bloom in early spring. The flowers are either male or female. Trees in…

  • Maple

    Maple tree, leaf, bark, seed

    Maple (acer) is a hardwood tree.  Maple timber is commonly used in flooring and furniture-making.  Maple syrup is made from the sap of some maple species including sugar maples (acer saccharum).  Maple tree pests are fungus, caterpillars, aphids and Asian long-horned beetles. The maple leaves are palmately (like a hand) lobed.  The leaves are in pairs…

  • Red Oak

    Oak Tree, leaves, bark, nuts

    Oak (genus Quercus) is a hardwood tree.  Oak timber is commonly used in construction and furniture-making.  Oak barrels are used for aging alcoholic beverages such as wine, sherry and whisky, giving them an added flavor and aromas.  Oak smoke is used to flavor a number of food products.  Oak trees have a large number of pests…

  • Shagbark Hickory

    Shagbark Hickory, leaf, bark, nut

    Shagbark hickory (Carya ovate) is named after the recognizable feature of the mature tree.  The bark in the higher truck splays out thus the adjective shagbark.  Hickory is a hardwood tree. The leaves of the shagbark hickory are a compound odd numbered pinnate (central stem) leaf.  The compound leaf is 12 to 24 inches long.…

  • Prickly Ash

    Prickly Ash Collage

    Prickly Ash (Zanthoxylum americanum) has a long litany of common names including toothache tree on Wikipedia. The oil extracts from the bark of the prickly ash have been used in traditional medicine and studied for antifungal and cancer killing properties. This was photographed along the path to the pond.

  • Sugar Maple vs Black Maple

    Sugar Maple vs Black Maple image

    Learn to distinguish the difference between sugar maple and black maple. One can find both species in Mitchell Scarlett Woods and Scarlett Mitchell Parks. Visit article of Sugar Maple vs Black Maple on bplant.org