FOREST CONDITIONS IN DELAWARE. 



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COMMERCIAL TREES OF INFREQUENT OCCURENCE 



Common Name 

 Butternut 

 Black walnut 

 Bitternut hickory 

 Pignut hickory 

 Post oak 

 Chestnut oak 

 Swamp white oak 

 Bartram oak 

 Spanish 

 Sycamore 

 Black cherry 

 Black locust 

 Sugar maple 

 White elm 

 Basswood 

 Black gum 

 Black ash 

 Red ash 

 White ash 

 Pitch pine 

 Shortleaf pine 

 Red cedar 

 White cedar 

 Bald cypress 



Common Name 

 Black willow 

 Largetooth aspen 

 Black birch 

 Red birch 

 Hornbeam 

 Blue beech 

 Barren oak 

 Black jack oak 

 Slippery elm 

 Hackberry 

 Sassafras 

 Red mulberry 

 Sweet magnolia 

 Papaw 

 Witch hazel 

 Serviceberry 

 Scarlet haw 



Botanical Name 

 Juglans cinerea 

 Juglans nigra 

 Hicoria minima 

 Hicoria glabra 

 Quercus minor 

 Quercus prinus 

 Quercus platanoides 

 Quercus heterophylla 

 Quercus digitata 

 Platinus occidentalis 

 Prunus serotina 

 Eobinia pseudacacia 

 Acer saccharum 

 Ulnus americana 

 Tilia americana 

 Nyssa sylvatica 

 Fraxinus nigra 

 Fraxinus pennsylvanica 

 Fraxinus americana 

 Pinus rigida 

 Pinus echinata 

 Juniperus virginiana 

 CJiamaecyparis thyoides 

 Taxodium distichum 



Occurrence 

 In Piedmont region 

 Throughout the State 

 In Piedmont region 

 Throughout the State 

 In Piedmont region 



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 Throughout the State 

 In Piedmont region 

 Throughout the State 



In the Piedmont region 



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Mostly in the Piedmont 

 Mostly in the pine region 

 Southern half of State 

 Throughout the State 

 Extreme southern portion of State 



INFERIOR COMMERCIAL TREES 



Botanical Name 



Salix nigra 



Populus grandidentata 

 Betula lenta 

 Betula nigra 

 Ostrya virginiana 

 Carpinus caroliniana 

 Quercus pumila 

 Quercus marilandica 

 Ulmus pubescens 

 Celtis occidentalis 

 Sassafras sassafras 

 Morus rubra 

 Magnolia glauca 

 Asimina triloba 

 Hamamelis virginiana 

 Amelanchier canadensis 

 Crataegus coccinea 



Occurrence 



Very common in marshes 

 Rare in the State 

 Rare 

 Rare 



Occurs in Piedmont region 

 Frequent 



Limited in occurrence 



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Very frequent 

 Fairly common 



Limited in occurrence 



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Limited in occurrence 



