The most commonly planted maple trees are Red Maple (Acer rubrum), Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum), Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum), Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum), Norway Maple (Acer platanoides), Amur ...

Stacker used information from forestry and landscaping sites to compile a quiz to identify trees by looking at their leaves. Information on where the tree grows, the texture and color of its ...

The trees provide important diversity of food and habitat in coniferous forests. The leaves are easy to identify by their large, broad body and the iconic maple leaf shape, which turns a pale ...

Botanical parts of a leaf. Use these leaf parts and markers to make a positive tree identification.

They have a website where you can identify your tree by the shape and description of its leaf. For example, you can start with the basic description. Does your tree produce heart-shaped leaves?

The next step to identifying a deciduous or hardwood tree is to determine its leaf type. What is the leaf composition? Is it a simple leaf (single blade leaf like a maple tree) or is it a compound ...

The spiky, iconic Canadian maple leaf. A large, lush Florida palm leaf. Thin aspen leaves rustling in the crisp Colorado air. You can probably recall many different leaf shapes from many different ...

Use leaf, structure, and texture to identify some of the most common North American trees.

MIDDLETOWN — We are lucky to have so many great forested trails in and around Middletown, and though they are mainly deciduous trees that senesce, or lose their leaves annually, there are still ...

Identifying deciduous trees in the winter when the leaves have fallen is not as difficult as it seems, and with some identification markers, we can learn the names of our most recognizable trees.

Although trees drop leaves for other reasons, defoliation caused by the maple petiole borer is distinctive.