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Black Oak Tree

The black oak is a medium to large sized tree that branches out widely and has a very open spreading top to it. It can range in height from fifty to over eighty feet tall and have a trunk that has a circumference of as much as three feet around. The oak leaves are very distinct., ranging from between four and seven inches long, and... 

Cypress Tree

The cypress is an ever green tree with a very aromatic wood as well as the greenery. It has an angled, what is known as a buttressed trunk that has many branches and a very Cypress trees can grow from between forty to seventy feet tall, and will sometimes be as much as three feet around. The Cypress Tree The leaves of the Cypress... 

Ash tree

The ash tree is distantly related to the olive tree. There are as many as sixty-five different types found in North America and nearly that many from the European and Asian parts of the world. The genus name for the ash tree comes from the Latin (Fraxinus), and the name itself comes from the Old English æsc, which means spear. The... 

Olive

The olive is native to the Mediterranean region, parts of Africa and tropical and central Asia. It is one of the oldest known plants to be used by man. Olive seeds found in Spain and tested using carbon dating have shown the olive has been domesticated for eight thousand years. The olive was thought to be grown in two separate areas,... 

Western White Pine

Pinus Monticola The western white pine is type of pine that grows in the western mountains of the United States and Canada. Other names it is know by are the Idaho white pine; silver pine or mountain white pine. The state tree of Idaho, adopted in 1935, the western white pine often grows to a height from fifty to seventy meters and... 

Dawn Redwood

Metasequoia glyptostroboides The dawn redwood is also known as the water fir in China and the water larch; it is native to central China. It is a deciduous tree that is closely related to the giant sequoia and is the only living species of Metasequoia that is living. The dawn redwood is critically endangered and was thought to be... 

Sequoia Tree

The sequoia tree is a member in the cypress family of Cupressacaea and is one of three species of redwoods. These may be more familiarly known as the Coast Redwood and California Redwood, found in the northern part of the state of California. Known for its height and age, the tallest tree in the world is a redwood, reaching over... 

Pinyon Tree

The Pinyon Tree is an evergreen, found primarily in drier climates, such as dry foothills, mesas, canyons and areas that grow a great deal of scrub. It will grow from 20 to 40 feet tall, and has dark green needles that grow in sets of two as opposed to the leaf type tree. The Female Pinyon Pine Tree It will also bear cones, which... 

Magnolia Tree

The Evergreen Magnolia Tree has been around for several million years according to scientists. Fossils of Magnolia like trees have been found that date more than twenty million years, indicating the very ancient lineage of this, one of the most beautiful of trees. One scientific theory says that magnolias were the ancestors of nearly... 

Calvaria Tree

The Calvaria Tree is a perfect example of the impact man can have on the environment without being aware of what we do. The Calvaria tree is a long lived hardwood, existing only in certain parts of the world, specifically the island of Mauritius where the hapless Dodo bird once made its home. The DODO, a large flightless bird was... 

Sassafras

The Sassafras is a deciduous tree (meaning that it sheds it’s leaves for the winter) which is native to North America, It is commonly found growing in hardwood forests, abandoned fields, fence rows, and areas that have been disturbed in some way. It may grow to 80 feet in height, but normally is 20 to 35 feet. Quite slender,... 

Oak Tree

The Oak is a hardwood, and is also what is known as a deciduous tree, which means that in the autumn it loses its leaves. The oak is a broad range tree and it is hard to find a tree which has a wider spread geographically. There are very few places in which one type or another of oak tree do not grow. Oaks have broad leaves and... 

Maple Tree

There are well over 200 various trees in the family of trees that is known as maple. They are widely distributed around the world, usually in further northern climates, and are wide spreading trees, which have very thick leaves, which they lose in the autumn, otherwise known as deciduous. The leaves to a maple can vary in size from...