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Green twigs
3-5 leaflets, coarsely toothed
put leaflets together to make typical maple leaf
 
- Acer negunda
- Aceraceae; boxelder
- Fruit: Samara
- dioecious
- wood used in pallets
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opp. palmate
3-5 lobes, serrated sinus
terminal love diverges (gets wider)
white undersides
  
- Acer saccharinum (sweet)
- Aceraceae; silver maple
- *Fruit: samara
- songbirds, deer eat foliages
- shallow roots, brittle branches
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forms colonies
smooth bark
alt, pinnate leaf w/ many leaflets
two teeth at base
twisted samara w/ seed in middle
 
- Ailanthus altissima (very tall)
- Simaroubaceae; tree-of-heaven
- *Fruit: samara w/ seed in middle
- foliage may cause rash
- Native to China, considered invasive
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- Calycanthus floridus (flowering)
- Calycanthaceae; sweet-shrub, bubby bush
- *Fruit: achene
- deer love foliage
- sweet smelling flowers formerly made into necklaces
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- Carya illinoinensis (of Illinois)
- Juglandaceae; pecan
- *Fruit: nut - long, slender, winged
- wood used in furn
- nuts prized in baking
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multi-stem "poor form" tree
wide gray ridges
oblong, toothed leaf, bristle tip
soft, pubescent undersides
  
- Castanea mollissima (softly pubescent)
- Fagaceae; Chinese chestnut
- *Fruit: nut w/ sharp spiky husk
- squirrels, humans
- Native to China/Korea
- Resistant to chestnut blight
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vine
leaves vary: ovate, lanceolate, suborbicular
w/ accuminate tip
tiny soft thorns
  
- Celastrus orbiculatus (round)
- Celastraceae (Bittersweet); Oriental bittersweet
- Fruit: capsule
- native to eastern Asia, serious weed in NC
- Fruits used in dried floral arrangements
- mustard yellow/green capsule opens to reveal orange fruits
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2-lobed, flat top leaft
 
- Ginkgo biloba (2-lobed)
- Ginkgoaceae (Ginkgo); ginkgo
- probably extinct in nature
- landscaping plant
- dioecious
- dried leaves used in treating dementia and Alzheimer's
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spreading tree
bark w/ orange streaks
alt. entire, ovate, milky sap, juvenile sprouts have thorns
obtuse leaf base?
    
- Maclura pomifera (pome-bearing, which it is not!)
- Moraceae; Osage orange
- Fruit: multiple of drupes (green at maturity)
- very dense wood, good for bows, posts, wagon axles
- yellow-brown dye
- formerly planted as living fence
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- Melia azedarach (Persian name meaning noble tree)
- Meliaceae (Mahogany); Chinaberry, chainy-ball
- Fruit: drupe
- Fruit deadly poisonous
- native to India and China
- formerly believed by farmers to repel insects
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fluted trunk base
opp. linear, peltate scales
  
- Metasequoia glyptostroboides (similar to Glyptostrobus - another conifer genus)
- Cupressaceae; dawn redwood
- Native to China
- used in landscaping
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- Morus alba (white)
- Moraceae; white mulberry
- Fruit: multiple of drupes
- Native to China
- Introduced in colonial times for silkworm production
- fruit edible
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Prickly foliage
sterigma - little wooden needle base
least square leaf of genus (hard to roll in fingers)
lateral branches droop
   
- Picea abies (fir tree)
- Pinaceae; Norway spruce
- *Cone: firm, 5-6"; scales flat w/ jagged tips "erose"
- wood stronger than steel
- used for pulp, dimension lumber, musical instruments
- used in landscaping in cool areas
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- Quercus laurifolia (laurel-leaved)
- Fagaceae; swam laurel oak
- *Fruit: nut
- wood and wildlife similar to other red oaks
- used in landscaping
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- Sassafras albidum (nearly white)
- Lauraceae; sassafras
- Fruit: drupe
- songbirds
- roots formerly used in root beer, now carcinogenic
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- Castanea dentata (dentate)
- Fagaceae; American chestnut
- *Fruit: nut
- reduced to a tall shrub by chestnut blight
- wood formerly used for siding, shakes, furn, paneling, posts, fuelwood.
- bark formerly source of tannin
- nuts former food for squirrels, humans
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- Picea rubens (reddish)
- Pinaceae; red spruce
- *Cone: 2" w/ flat, smooth scales
- Only spruce native to Southern Appalachians
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