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Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Comments |
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Hardy-Orange
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Poncirus trifoliata |
- Size: large shrub/small tree (12' tall by 12' wide)
- Flowers: not overwhelming. White, citrus-like flowers, late spring
- Fruit: looks like a Mandarin orange (1.5" diameter green, turning orange)
- Fall color: none
- Culture: full sun, very adaptable to soils
- Disease/insect: none
- Use: not sure. Remember green twigs have large thorns/spines
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Japanese Black Pine
(No photos available) |
Pinus thunbergii |
- Needles paired; 3" to 4.5" long; dark green
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Japanese Snowbell
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Styrax japonicum |
- Size: small sized flowering tree (18' tall by 12' wide)
- Flowers: spectacular white bell-shaped flowers in May
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: none
- Culture: requires adequate moisture during summer if located in full sun
- Disease/insect: none serious
- Use: excellent, small flowering tree
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Kousa Dogwood
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Cornus kousa |
- Size: small sized tree (18' tall by 22' wide)
- Flowers: 3 to 4 weeks after C. florida. Bract is pointed in contrast to C. florida (notched)
- Fruit: red, looks like a strawberry
- Fall color: nice orange /red fall color
- Culture: slightly more tolerant of heat than C. florida
- Disease/insect: none serious
- Uses: small flowering tree
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Littleleaf Linden
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Tilia cordata |
- Size: medium sized tree (50' tall by 40' wide)
- Flowers: flowers in May/June, fragrant
- Fruits: fruit (nutlet) hangs from unique tongue-shaped bract
- Fall color: none. Distinctive heart-shaped leaves
- Culture: fairly adaptable
- Disease/insect: none serious
- Use: lawn tree
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Loblolly Pine
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Pinus taeda |
- Size: medium sized tree (50' tall by 35' wide)
- Needles: 3 (sometimes 2) per bundle; 6" to 10" long
- Culture: full sun. Very adaptable to soil
- Very common timber tree across Arkansas
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Lombardy Poplar
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Poplus nigra 'Italica' |
- Size: 35' tall by 10' wide; narrow pyramidal
- Flowers/fruits: not significant
- Fall color: none
- Culture: full sun. Soil adaptable
- Use: tree hedge/screen. Short-lived in Arkansas
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London Planetree
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Platanus x acerifolia |
- Size: very large sized tree (75' tall by 75' wide). Very fast growing
- Flowers: not significant
- Fruit: 2 fruit 'balls' per stalk
- Fall color: none
- Bark: very attractive. Exfoliates to the ground
- Culture: very adaptable
- Disease/insect: anthracnose
- Use: parks, pastures, large commercial properties. Messy (anthracnose; leaf and twig litter)
- Hybrid of native (P. occidentalis) and oriental species
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Mimosa;
Silk Tree
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Albizia julibrissin |
- Size: small flowering tree (20' tall); fast growing
- Flowers: very attractive, light to deep pink all summer. Flower brush-like
- Fruit: 6-8” long pod
- Fall color: none
- Culture: full sun. Tolerant of site conditions
- Use: typically not recommended for landscapes (brittle; short-lived; weedy)
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Northern Catalpa
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Catalpa speciosa |
- Size: medium sized tree (45' tall by 30' wide)
- Flowers: beautiful white flowers in May
- Fruit: cigar shaped pod. Messy
- Fall color: none. Leaves distinctive heart shaped leaves
- Culture: adaptable
- Use: rarely used in well maintained landscapes since weak wooded, messy leaves and fruits
- Actually one of two species in the state. The other is C. bignonioides (Southern Catalpa)
which flowers 2-3 weeks later.
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Northern Red Oak
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Quercus rubra |
- Size: medium to large sized tree (65' tall by 65' wide)
- Flowers/fruits: not significant
- Fall color: exceptional maroon fall color
- Culture: very adaptable
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: great shade tree
- Red oak group
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Norway Maple
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Acer platanoides |
- Size: medium sized shade tree (60'); fast growing
- Flowers & fruits: not significant
- Fall color: none
- Culture: tolerant of soil type. Best in full sun.
- Use: street tree, lawn shade tree
- Cultivars include: 'Crimson King', 'Columnare', 'Globosum', 'Schwedleri'
- More common in Northwest Arkansas
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