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Identification of Treesin the Winter
Jim Perry
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Identification of Treesin the Winter
Lecture 1
1. Major Classification2. How do trees grow3. ID of trees4. Common trees of eastern Virginia5. How to key trees
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What is a Tree?
Tree: Woody plants, excluding vines ≥ 20 feet in height & ≥3 inches DBH, regardless of height
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What is a Tree?
Two major classifications:
Angiosperms
Deciduous Evergreen
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What is a Tree?
Gymnosperms
DeciduousEvergreen
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What is a Tree?
Tree: Woody plants, excluding vines ≥ 20 feet in height & ≥3 inches DBH, regardless of height
Sapling Woody plants (excluding vines): ≥ 20-ftin height & < 3-in DBH
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What is a Tree?
Tree: Woody plants, excluding vines ≥ 20 feet in height & ≥3 inches DBH, regardless of height
Sapling Woody plants (excluding vines): ≥ 20-ft in height & < 3-in DBH
Herb: All herbaceous (non-woody) plants, including herbaceous vines, regardless of size, and woody species, except woody vines, < 3 ft (1 m) in height.
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What is a Tree?
Tree: Woody plants, excluding vines ≥ 20 feet in height & ≥3 inches DBH, regardless of height
Sapling Woody plants (excluding vines): ≥ 20-ft in height & < 3-in DBH
Herb All herbaceous (non-woody) plants, including herbaceous vines, regardless of size, and woody species, except woody vines, < 3 ft (1 m) in height.
Shrub Woody plants, excluding vines, from 3 to 20 ft (1 to 6 m) in height.
Woody Vine Consists of all woody vines ≥ 3.28 ft in height.
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How do Trees Grow?
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How do Trees Grow?
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How do Trees Grow?
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How do Trees Grow?Apical
Meristem
AuxiliaryMeristem
ApicalMeristem
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How do Trees Grow?
Nail at 5ft.
Where will nail be after 10 years if the tree grows at a rate of 1ft per year?
Still at 5 ft!
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Where do Branches Come From?
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Intercalary Meristem Growth
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How do Trees Grow?
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What is Coppicing?Coppicing is a traditional method of woodlandmanagement which exploits the capacity of manyspecies of trees to put out new shoots from theirstump or roots if cut down. In a coppiced wood, whichis called a copse, young tree stems are repeatedly cutdown to near ground level, known as a stool.
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Loss of Terminal Bud
Can be caused by browsers (deer, rabbits), damage from blow down of neighbor, or human induced (road work, power line clearing, etc.).
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Loss of Terminal Bud
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Some tree species (such as sourwood, blueberries, and persimmon trees) have naturally aborted terminal buds.
WHY?
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Winter Identification of Tree
Decision tree(plant key)
Deciduous or Evergreen?
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Deciduous Trees
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Crape MyrtleBeech Ironwood
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Beech
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Ironwood
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American sycamore
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American sycamore
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=Black Cherry
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River Birch
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Red Maple
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So, instead of barking up the wrong tree, we turn to…
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Basic Twig Morphology
Helpful Facts: only 4 families of trees have opposite branches/leaf scares (ash, buckeye, dogwoods, maple)!
Twig Morphology
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Basic Twig Morphology
Helpful Facts: only the oaks have five terminal buds!
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Imbricate v. valvate v. 1-scaled v. naked.
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Bundle scars
Leaf Scars
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Helpful Facts: only magnolia family (and American sycamore) have stipule scars that encircle twig!
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Evergreen Trees
Leaves v. Needles
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Trees We Will Work With
Pine Family (loblolly, virginia, white, slash, longleaf)
Cedar Family (eastern red)
Cypress Family (bald cypress)
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Trees We Will Work With
Beech Family:Oaks (white, swamp chestnut, post, southern red,
scarlet, northern red, pin, water, laurel)
Walnut Family:Hickory (mocker and pig nut)Walnut (black and white walnut)
Magnolia Family:Tulip treeMagnolias (swamp and flowering magnolia)
Birch family:Birch (river)Muscle wood (aka iron wood)
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Trees We Will Work With
Maple FamilyMaple (red, silver)
Green Ash
Sourwood
Sweetgum
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Trees We Will Work With
Pine FamilyCedar FamilyCypress Family
Beech Family (oaks and beech trees)Walnut Family (hickory and walnut)Magnolia Family (tulip tree, swamp and flowering magnolia)Birch family (birch, muscle wood)Maple Family
SourwoodSweetgum
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Using Your Book to Identify Trees
• Works in both summer and winter.
• Twig terminology on page 17.
• Winter key begins on page 34.
• Winter key includes both deciduous and evergreen.
• Initially takes you to GENUS, not necessarily to species, but will direct you to species key.
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Plant #1
Turn to page 34:
1. Leaves evergreen. (2)1a. Leaves deciduous. (30)
30. Leaves scares and buds alternate. (31)30a. Leaves scares and buds opposite or whorled. (111)
(Note again: only four tree species have opposite scares and buds – ash, buckeye, dogwood, maples.)
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31. Twigs with conspicuous silvery scales. (Russian olive)31a. Twigs lacking silvery scales. (32)
32. Trunk, branches or twigs armed with thorns, prickles, or spines. (33)32a. Trunk, branches and twigs unarmed. (42)
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42. Twigs with a characteristic odor. (43)42a. Twigs otherwise. (53)
43. Twigs ringed at the nodes by stipul-scares. (44)43a. Twigs otherwise. (45)
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44. Terminal bud flattened, with a solitary scale. (Tulip Tree)
44a. Terminal bud not flattened, with a solitary scale. (Magnolias)
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Useful Web Sites:
Digital Atlas of Virginia Flora
(http://www.vaplantatlas.org/)
Pinus strobus L. Liriodendron tulipifera L.
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Virginia Tech Dendrology
(http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology)
yellow-poplarMagnoliaceae Liriodendron tulipifera L. symbol: LITULeaf: Alternate, simple, palmately veined, orbicular, 4-lobed with an entire margin, 4 to 8 inches long, notched to flat top. Somewhat shaped like a tulip, light green to green.Flower: Perfect, showy, resembling a large tulip, but high in the tree, 2 1/2 inches long, with yellow-green petals and an orange corolla, appearing in late spring to early summer.Fruit: An oblong (cone-like) aggregate of samaras (2 inches long), deciduous at maturity; each samara is 1-winged, 1 1/2 inches long, and curved upwards at seed cavity
(resembling the front keel of a boat); maturing August to October and disseminating through late fall and winter; base whorls of samaras persist on fruit into following spring and resemble wooden flowers high in the tree.Twig: Red-brown in color, often with a shiny appearance or a waxy bloom. Stipules are large and encircle the twig; buds are elongated and valvate, resembling a "duck bill". Twigs have a sweet, spicy odor when broken.Bark: Light gray-green and smooth when young, later developing flat-topped ridges and conspicuous white colored furrows in diamond shaped patterns. On older trees sapsucker holes are common.Form: In a forest, a large tree with a long, straight limb-free bole very often reaching over 100 feet tall. Open-grown trees have a pyramidal crown when young, becoming oval in shape with time.
Additional Range Information: Liriodendron tulipifera is native to North America. Range may be expanded by planting. See states reporting yellow-poplar.More Information: Fall Color - Wood - Landowner FactsheetExternal Links: USDAFS Silvics of North America - USDAFS Additional Silvics - USDA Plants Database - Horticulture Information - USDAFS Forest Products LabAll material © 2018 Virginia Tech Dept. of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation; Photos and text by: John Seiler, Edward Jensen, Alex Niemiera, and John Peterson; Silvics reprinted from Ag Handbook 654
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WAKE UP! It’s Time for Questions?