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Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Comments |
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Flowering Cherry
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Prunus serrulata 'Kwanzan' |
- Size: small sized tree (12' tall by 12' wide); distinct vase shape
- Flowers: beautiful early spring flowers; double, light pink
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: none
- Culture: full sun. Requires constant moisture
- Use: specimen flowering tree
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Flowering Crabapple
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malus sp. |
- Size: small sized tree (15' tall by 15' wide)
- Flowers: known for exceptional flower display. Colors: pink, white, red; single/doubles. Mid-spring (April)
- Fruits: attractive fruits in the fall/winter, red, orange,
yellow; pea-sized to 2"
- Fall color: generally not significant
- Culture: full sun. Soil adaptable
- Disease/insect: cedar apple rust, fireblight
- Use: small flowering tree
- Cultivars: hundreds of selections based on differences in plant size, flower color, fruit size/color
- More common in Northwest Arkansas
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Flowering Peach
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Prunus persica |
- Size: small sized tree (15' tall by 10' wide)
- Flowers: beautiful mid spring flowers (white or pink) single or double)
- Fruit: edible peach
- Fall color: none
- Culture: full sun. Requires constant moisture
- Use: fruit tree
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Fringetree: Grancy Gray-beard
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Chionanthus virginicus |
- Size: large shrub/small-sized tree (20' tall by 20' wide)
- Flowers: dramatic lacy white flowers mid-April
- Fruit: not significant. Dark blue drupe
- Fall color: none
- Culture: adaptable. Even flowers well in shade
- Disease/insect: none
- Uses: woodland landscape
- Native
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Ginkgo
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Ginkgo biloba |
- Size: medium-large sized tree (75' tall by 60' wide). Slow growing
- Flowers: not significant
- Fruit: 1" 'plum'. Avoid female trees (very foul smelling fruits)
- Fall color: excellent clear yellow. Distinctive webbed leaf
- Culture: very tough tree. Good urban tree
- Use: street tree, lawn tree
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Goldenraintree
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Koelreuteria paniculata |
- Size: small sized tree (25' tall by 30' wide)
- Flowers: exceptional summer flowering tree. Deep yellow, terminal panicles
- Fruit: bladder-like fruit capsule
- Fall color: none
- Culture: adaptable
- Use: small flowering tree
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