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horse chestnut
- spiny husk and stout twig
- opposite leaf arrangement with a palmately compound leaf
- clusters of white flowers subject to early diseases "early leaf drop"
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american basswood
- heart shaped leaves with toothing
- bract with berries, soft wood, not commerically valuable
- good for carving inner bark fiberous and stringy
- parallel vertical furrows
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flowering dogwood
reptillian bark, have bracts that look like petals
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white ash
- opposite leaves, pinnately compound usually 7 leaflets
- upland species, diamond shaped furrow pattern, use wood
- to make baseball bats, ladders and great firewood
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red ash
- looks very similar to white ash
- grows in wetland, leaf scar semi circular
- has fuzz AKA green ash
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black ash
- more leaflets, circular scar, leaflets directly attached
- soft bark
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eastern catalpa
- 3 leaves produced at 1 node
- long narrow pencil shaped pods
- heart shaped leaves, no toothing
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