analysis: Understanding the Kinds of Shade Trees

Types of shade tree (for information)

Notes:
As we enter spring and ready for summer, you may want to plant a new tree for your landscape.
The question is what type – let’s give a brief introduction with image links to key trees.

• Ash Tree:

  genus of flowering plants in the olive and lilac family  (wikipedia)
  info: how to identify ash trees photos: ash tree

• Aspen Tree:

  tall, tube-like clusters of white stands or the sound of the “quaking” leaves  (wikipedia)
  info: tree profile: aspen – so much more than a tree photos: aspen tree

• Elm Tree:

  known as the American elm or, less commonly, as the white elm, is a species native to eastern North America  (wikipedia)
  info: elm place in history photos: elm tree

• Maple Tree:

  approximately 128 species, most of which are native to Asia, with a number also appearing in
  Europe, northern Africa, and North America  (wikipedia)
  info: meet the many species of maple trees photos: maple tree

• Sugar Maple:

  the sugar maple or rock maple, is a species of maple native to north america  (wikipedia)
  info: tapping a maple tree photos: sugar maple

• Oak Tree:

  An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus of the beech family, with approximately 600 extant species of oaks  (wikipedia)
  info: oak tree – life science photos: oak tree

• Sweetgum Tree:

  American sweetgum, also known as American storax, hazel pine, bilsted, redgum, satin-walnut, star-leaved gum, alligatorwood, or simply sweetgum  (wikipedia)
  info: the mean seed of the sweet gum photos: sweetgum tree

• Willow Tree:

  Willows, also called sallows, and osiers, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate
  regions of the Northern Hemisphere  (wikipedia)
  info: interesting facts about weeping willow trees photos: willow tree

• Zelkova Tree:

  Zelkova serrata is a species of the genus Zelkova. It is often grown as an ornamental tree,
  and used in bonsai  (wikipedia)
  info: zelkova tree information photos: zelkova tree

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