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Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Comments |
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Pecan
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Carya illinoinensis |
- Size: medium to large sized tree (65' tall by 75' wide). Often a symmetrical, cascading vase shape
- Flowers: not significant and messy
- Fruits: edible pecan. Takes 8 to 12 years before they fruit
- Fall color: fair. Sometimes a deep yellow
- Culture: fairly adaptable
- Insect/disease: fall webworm
- Use: not typically used in highly maintained landscapes
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Pin Oak
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Quercus palustris |
- Size: medium to large sized tree (65' tall by 45' wide)
- Flowers/fruits: not significant. Small acorn
- Fall color: excellent maroon fall color
- Culture: fairly adaptable to most soils except high pH (Iron chlorosis)
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: street tree. Shade tree
- Red oak group (lobes pointed)
- Likely confused with Q. coccinea (Scarlet Oak) and Q. shumardii (Shumard Oak) in trade
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Purpleleaf Plum
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Prunus cerasifera 'Atropurpurea' |
- Size: small sized tree (15' tall by 10' wide)
- Flowers: very attractive. Light pink spring (March) flowers
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: none; deep purple foliage all season
- Culture: full sun. Demands adequate moisture and good soil in Arkansas. Summer heat is rough on this plant. Best suited in Northwest Arkansas
- Disease/insect: canker if stressed
- Use: small specimen shrub/tree
- Cultivar: 'Krauter Vesuvius'
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Red Buckeye
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Aesculus pavia |
- Size: large shrub or small tree (12' tall by 12' wide)
- Flowers & fruits: showy terminal red flowers in April. Buckeye fruit
- Fall color: none
- Culture: partial shade. Rich, moist soils
- Use: understory plant, good for woodland gardens
- Native to Arkansas woodlands
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Red Maple
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Acer rubrum |
- Size: medium sized shade tree (60'); fast growing
- Flowers & fruits: although small, add distinctive red color to landscape in early spring
- Fall color: variable (reason for cultivars) but excellent; typically red
- Culture: tolerant of soil type. Fast growing
- Uses: street tree, lawn shade tree
- Cultivars include: 'October Glory', 'Red Sunset', 'Autumn Flame'
- Native from Florida to Canada in riverbottoms
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Redleaf Japonese Maple
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Acer palmatum var. atropurpureum |
- Size: typically small tree (8' to 15')
- Flowers & fruits: not significant
- Fall color: depending on cultivar, can be colorful
- Culture: avoid windy sites: requires moist soil especially in summer. Typically not well suited to full sun in Arkansas
- Uses: specimen in landscapes
- Cultivars: variety atropurpureum is a large group of red foliage forms. Cultivars include: 'Bloodgood', 'Trompenberg'
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River Birch
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Betula nigra |
- Size: small sized tree (35' tall by 25' wide)
- Flowers & fruit: not significant
- Fall color: yellowish
- Beautiful exfoliating bark
- Culture: very adaptable
- Disease/insect: none significant. Avoid alkaline soils (iron chlorosis)
- Use: small landscape tree typically selected for attractive bark
- Cultivars: Heritage™ (salmon white bark), Dura-Heat™
- Misc: lowland species, native to Arkansas
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Russian-olive *
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Elaeagunus angustifolia |
- Size: small sized tree (20' tall by 25' wide)
- Flowers: small, yellow, fragrant, not showy
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: none; Distinctive silver foliage
- Culture: very tough. Full sun
- Disease/insect: Verticillium wilt, canker
- Uses: avoid in landscapes, short-lived, weak wooded, very fast growing
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