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The Trees of North America. For the purposes of this category, "North America" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), which calls it Northern America , namely as one of the nine "botanical continents".
Cotinus: smoke trees; Cotinus coggygria: common smoke tree Anacardiaceae (cashew family) Cotinus obovatus: American smoke tree Anacardiaceae (cashew family) 996 Harpephyllum: harpephyllum plum trees; Harpephyllum afrum: South African wild plum Anacardiaceae (cashew family) Mangifera: mangos; Mangifera caesia: jack; binjai; Malaysian mango
Magnolias bloom.. 17 magnoliid families include trees. [1] [2]Annonaceae (Custard apple family) . Annona, Cherimoya, Custard apple, Soursop etc.; Asimina, American Pawpaw; Lauraceae (Laurel family)
Ed Gohlich . Chestnut. American chestnut (Castanea dentata) are trees with green balls and used to be one of the most widespread native trees in North America, but a fungus blight wiped out most ...
The winter twigs are distinctive among North American trees, being long and slender (15–20 millimetres or 5 ⁄ 8 – 3 ⁄ 4 inch by 2–3 mm or 3 ⁄ 32 – 1 ⁄ 8 in) with two rows of overlapping scales on the buds. Beech buds are distinctly thin and long, resembling cigars; this characteristic makes beech trees relatively easy to identify.
Giant sequoia. Silvics of North America (1991), [1] a forest inventory compiled and published by the United States Forest Service, includes many conifers. [a] It superseded Silvics of Forest Trees of the United States (1965), which was the first extensive American tree inventory. [3]
Pinus ponderosa, commonly known as the ponderosa pine, [3] bull pine, blackjack pine, [4] western yellow-pine, [5] or filipinus pine, [6] is a very large pine tree species of variable habitat native to mountainous regions of western North America. It is the most widely distributed pine species in North America. [7]: 4
Celtis occidentalis, commonly known as the common hackberry, is a large deciduous tree native to North America. It is also known as the nettletree, beaverwood, northern hackberry, and American hackberry. [4] It is a moderately long-lived [4] hardwood [4] with a light-colored wood, yellowish gray to light brown with yellow streaks. [5]