10 IMPORTANT FOBEST TREES OF EASTERN UNITED STATES. 



ONE HUNDRED IMPORTANT EASTERN FOREST TREES— Continued. 



Name. 



isti 



Remarks. 



Black glim (Pepperidge) 

 (Xyssa sylvatica). 



S3. 



64. Y,*ater gum {Xyssa biflora) 

 65. 



66. 



Tupelo gum (Nyssa aqua- 



Kncwn als i 

 ten gum. Associated, with 

 cypress. 



Gopher plum {Xyssa ogechc). 



Eastern United States. 

 Southern States 



Swamps cf Southeastern 

 Coastal States. 



Swamps, South Carolina to 

 Florida. 



Coastal swamps, Eastern and 

 Gulf States. 



Sweet magnolia {Magnolia 

 virginiana, Magnolia 

 glauca). Known also as 

 Sweet Bay. 



Cucumber "tree (Magnolia 



acuminata). 

 Umbrella tree (Magnolia ! Southeastern States 



J ra>> 



Large - leaf magnolia (Mag- do. 



nolia macrophylla). 



Eastern United States 



i c 



Persimmon (Diospyros tir- I Eastern United States. 

 ginianc). 



Redbud ( Judas tree) ( Cercis do. 



canadensis). 



Osaee orange (Eois d'arc) Native to Arkansas, eastern 

 (Toxvlon pomifcrum). Oklahoma and Texas, but 



widely planted^throughout 

 eastern United States. 



74. Sugarmaple (Acersaccharum) Eastern United States. 



75. Silver maple (Acer saccM- > do 



rinum). 



76. Red maple (Acer rubrum). ..] do 



79. 



Box elder or ash-leaved ma- Throughout United States 



: er negundo). 

 Hardy catalpa(Indiancigar) i South Central States, widely 

 ( Catalpa speciosa ) . cultivated elsewhere. 



Flowering dogwood ( Cornus Eastern United States. 

 floria , 



80. Blue dogwood (Cornus alter- Northeastern States and Ap- 

 nifo palachian Mountains. 



81. Honey locust (Ghdilsia tri- 



• ilow locust) 

 inia pseudacc 



Central States and Minnesota 

 to Texas. "Widelv culti- 

 vated elsewhere. 



an region, widely 

 cultivated and naturalized 

 all over Ud. 



- I :o and Mississippi vallev 

 nocladrsdt' 





issippi Valley. 





Leaves oval with smooth edge. Fruit, 

 an elongated berry with seed but little 

 flattened and stone scarcely ridged. 



Resembling black gum, "but" fruit 

 which also grows in pairs, has a flat- 

 tened and ridsed stone. 



Fruits produced sinely, with a stalk 

 longer than the fruit: stone of fruit 

 sharp-edged or winged. 



Resembling Tupelo gum. but fruits 

 with stalks shorter than the fruit 

 itself. 



Flowers white. Leaves white, silky 

 beneath. 



Flowers greenish-yellow. Fruit slen- 

 der. 



Flowers white, leaves deeply lobed at 

 base, forming '-ears," green on under 

 side. 



Flowers white, leaves very large, with 

 "ears" at base, and white beneath. 

 Largest leaved tree in North America 

 (20 to 30 inches long). 



Leaves oval, smooth, with smooth mar- 

 gin, fruit oranee colored, 1 to IS 

 inches in diameter, edible in late fall. 



Leaves heart-shaped, smooth margin; 

 fruit a pea-like pod in clusters of 4 to 

 S: flowers resembling a small rose- 

 colored sweet pea . 



Leaves with smooth edges. Fruit a 

 heaw ball 4 to 5 inches in diameter. 



Leaves 3 to 5 lobed with large rounded 

 teeth: fruit a pair of keys ripening in 

 autumn. 



Leaves deeply 5-lobed, with sharp ir- 

 regular teeth: fruit ripening in spring 

 before appearance of leaves. 



Leaves 3 to 5 lobed, finely toothed; 

 fruit ripening in spring or "early sum- 

 mer. 



Leaves compound, the leaflets toothed; 

 fruit ripening in early summer. 



Leaves large, heart-sha'ped; fruit a long 

 "pod '' filled with flat seeds which are 

 tufted at each end. A better shaped 

 tree than common catalpa ( Catalpa 

 catalpa). 



Leaves mostly clustered at ends of 

 branches, with slightly wavy mar- 



fins; flowers white with four large 

 racts resembling petals. Leaves op- 

 posite. 



Leaves resembiing those of flowering 

 dogwood, but alternate in arrange- 

 ment: flowers without the four large 

 petal-like bracts. 



Leaves doubly-compound, the leaflets 

 with slightly wavy margins; fruit a 

 pod a foot of more in length, twisted 

 when dry. Trees with large branch- 

 ing thorns. 



Leaves compound, leaflets with smooth 

 margins; fruit a pod 3 to 4 inches 

 long. Trees with pairs of short 

 thornsat the base of leaves and twigs. 

 Wood heavy and durable in the 

 ground. 



doubly compound, the leaflets 

 with entire margins; fruit a large 

 v Lde pod, 6 to 10 inches long, U io 2 

 inches wide. Trees without thorns. 



Bud scales few, shell of nut thin ;md 

 brittle, with large cavities: uuts elon- 

 gated with sweet kernel. 



Nut broader than long, with bitter 

 kernel. 



