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Scientific Name |
Common Name |
Comments |
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Magnolia grandiflora
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Southern Magnolia |
- Size: medium sized tree (55' tall by 50' wide)
- Flowers: large white flowers during summer
- Fruit: somewhat messy
- Fall color: none. Broadleaf evergreen. Messy leaves
- Culture: full sun. Adaptable to soils
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: signature tree of the South. Requires quite a bit of room
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Magnolia x soulangiana
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Saucer Magnolia |
- Size: small sized tree (22' tall by 22' wide)
- Flowers: urn-shaped early spring (March), pink/white; easily damaged by frosts
- Fruit: none
- Fall color: none
- Culture: full sun. Requires deep, rich, moist soil
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: single season plant that is hard to beat when in flower
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Magnolia stellata
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Star Magnolia |
- Size: large shrub/small sized tree (15' tall by 12' wide)
- Flowers: white, star-like flowers, early spring (March), fragrant
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: none
- Culture: full sun. Requires deep, rich, moist soil. Not recommended for tough sites
- Insect/disease: none significant
- Use: small flowering tree. Single season of interest
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Magnolia
virginiana
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Sweetbay Magnolia |
- Size: large shrub/small sized tree (18' tall by 12' wide)
- Flowers: never a great show, but attractive over several months.
white flowers 3 to 4" across. April to June
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: broadleaf evergreen
- Culture: fairly adaptable
- Insect/disease: none significant
- Use: screen, upright evergreen accent
- Misc: native Southeast Arkansas; underside of leaves distinctly silvered
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Malus sp.
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Flowering Crabapple |
- 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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Metasequoia glyptostroboides
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Dawn Redwood |
- Size: medium sized tree (45' tall by 20'); pyramidal
- Flowers/fruit: not significant
- Fall color: beautiful reddish brown fall color like Baldcypress; deciduous conifer. Leaves opposite in contrast to alternate for Baldcypress (Taxodium)
- Culture: full sun. Very adaptable to soil type
- Disease/insect: none
- Use: lovely deciduous needle evergreen, street tree
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Morus alba ‘Pendula’
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Weeping White Mulberry |
- Size: small, specimen tree
- Flowers/fruit: not significant. Typically a male form so no problem with messy fruits
- Fall color: none
- Culture: very adaptable to soil. Full sun
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: specimen
- Cultivars: 'Chaparral', 'Pendula'
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Nyssa sylvatica
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Blackgum;
Black Tupelo |
- Size: medium sized tree (45' tall by 35' wide)
- Flowers/fruit: not significant. Fruit a blue-black berry (drupe)
- Fall color: exceptional and reliable red fall color
- Culture: adaptable
- Disease/insect: minor leaf spot
- Use: shade tree
- Arkansas native
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Oxydendrum arboreum
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Sourwood |
- Size: small sized tree (25' tall by 15'); upright oval
- Flowers: beautiful Lily-of-the-valley flowers in June
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: exceptional red fall color
- Culture: rich, deep, moist soil. Probably best suited in Northwest Arkansas
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: specimen, small summer flowering lawn tree
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