Ninebark: Fast growing shrub for moist to wet soil, attractive flower. Northern White Cedar: Excellent windbreak, severe damage from bagworms in S. Indiana. Northern Bayberry: Wildlife …

Apr 28, 2022 · Learning how to identify trees in yards, neighborhoods and local parks provides insight into the diversity and relationships found in nature. Lenny Farlee, Purdue Extension …

These trees are found abun-dantly around lakes and along many streams. The mottled bark (which looks sick) is light brown, pale green and white on top. The leaves vary in size, but are …

When it comes to winter tree identification, knowing the placement of buds, the texture of the bark, and the shape and size of the twigs are the best ways to identify the tree. Your other senses – …

Bark: Cucumber magnolia is the only native North American magnolia that does not have smooth, gray bark (Figure 17). It is gray-brown with narrow ridges divided by long, vertical fissures. It is …

The bark of the trunk is shaggy like shagbark hickory, with long, vertical, flat, loose plates of bark, but its leaves have seven leaflets, and nuts are the largest of all hickories and have a thick …

There are more than 100 identified trees on our native tree walk. Can you name them all? If not, our comprehensive online database will speed you along the way to identifying each one.

Bark: On young trees, the bark is light gray, smooth, and thin. As red maples age, their bark becomes increasingly furrowed, turning gray to dark brown, rough, and scaly with maturity.

The smooth bark of young trees has horizontal markings called lenticels. Older bark breaks up into dark scales. The white flowers, which appear in early summer, develop into clusters of …

Jan 15, 2004 · Among the better-known candidates for ornamental bark are the birches, the paper bark birch (Betula papyrifera) most obvious. As the tree gets a few years of age, the outer …

Apr 15, 2022 · The American basswood, which is also called linden, is commonly identified by its simple heart-shaped leaves with finely toothed margins, flat bark with long running lines up …

Common tree diseases in Indiana include anthracnose, oak wilt, fire blight, Dutch elm disease, and Phytophthora root rot. Understanding the symptoms and causes of these diseases is key …

The bark on old trees is black cherry–like, blackish, and scaly. In Indiana, the cherrybark oak is found only in the south.

Native oak trees in Indiana include the White Oak, Northern Red Oak, and Shingle Oak, while non-native oak trees include the Bur Oak and Chestnut Oak. Oak trees are long-lived trees …