1. Deciduous Ornamentals Flashcards
Favored oriental ornamental/bonsai plant, expensive bc most need to be grafted to preserve characteristics
Acer palmatum
Dwarf Japanese Maple
Light sensitive leaves fold at night, pink fluffy flowers
Albrizia julibrissin
Silk tree
California native, small woody like cones
Alnus rhombifolia
California white alder/Sierra alder/white alder/California alder
Large fragrant flowers, butterfly-like leaf
Bauhinia variegata
Purple orchid tree
Yellow inflorescence and long pod-like fruit
Cassia leptophylla
Gold medallion tree
Early winter’s end flower, mauve-pink redbud flowers, pod-like fruits, simple leaf with short pointed tip
Eastern redbud “Forest Pansy”
Cercis canadensis
Spiky bark, showy pink red flower, dry fruit with cotton-like fiber surrounding seeds
Floss-silk tree
Ceiba speciosa
Shrubby, red-scarlet to coral red inflorescence, compound three leaflets
Natal Coral Tree
Erythrina humeana
3-5 lobed leaves, edible teardrop shaped fruit
Common fig
Ficus carica
Vibrant purple bloom, sticky flowers, lovely shade
Jacaranda
Jacaranda mimosifolia
Spiky spherical female fruits, 5-7 lobed maple-like leaf, striking fall color
American sweet gum
Liquidambar styraciflua
Round crisp fruit, pink,white,or red flowers 5 petals
Apple, crabapple
Malus cv.
Pinnately compound 2-4 inch leaves, 3/4 inches wide, small spherical clustered fruits - poisonous
Chinese Pistachio
Pistacia chinensis
Mottled bark, red-brown ball-like clusters, deeply lobed 4-9 inch simple leaves
California sycamore, western Sycamore, Buttonwood
Platanus racemosa
Round, soft, thin-skinned fruit w hard seed, leaves vary
Peach, nectarine, apricot, cherry, plum/prune, almond
Prunus cv.
Usually ornamental w white or pink flowers, sometimes has edible fruit, late winter/early spring flowers, green to dark purple foliage
Cherry plum and purple-leaf plum/Myrobalan Plum
Prunus cerasifera and Prunus cerasifera atropurperea
Narrow, glossy 2-3 inch leaves, orange-red single 4 inch flowers, red round leathery fruit
Pomegranate
Punica granatum
Fleshy pome fruit 2-6” long, pear-shaped, winter to spring flowers, green foliage
Edible pear ‘Monterrey’
Pyrus x communis ’Monterrey’
Pinnately compound,elliptic,rounded end pinnae, orangeyellow ancillary flower clusters, flat fruit spins as it falls
Tipu Tree
Tipuana tipu
Scaley, mottled flaking bark that is pinkish orange beneath, single small serrate leaf
Chinese Elm
Ulmus parvifolia
White or faintly pink trumpet-like flowers, ovate,glossy,small leaves, mounding/round/cushion shaped shrub w graceful branches
White/glossy abelia
Abelia x. grandiflora
Brick read two orange flowers, 5 petals Dash 1 1/2 inches long, green foliage, sprawling
Red bauhinia
Bauhinia galpinii or b. punctata
Mature at 5-15 ft, open spreading dark green foliage, 1/2” long, 1/3” wide roundish clusters (color varies), fragrant, vigorous growth, frequented by butterflies
Butterfly bush
Buddleja davidii
1 inch violet-blue flowers, yellow center, medium light green foliage, oval 4 inch long leaves
Blue Potato Bush
Lycianthes rantonnetii
Sprawling plants bloom over long season, phlox-clusters of white to light blue flowers, 1-2 inch elliptic leaves
Cape Plumbago/Plumbago
Plumbago auriculata
Fragrant, edible, ornamental, attractive, great variety of colorsshapessizes - many petals and thorns
Rose
Rosa cv.
Blueblack 1/4” poisonous fruit and leaves, climber, dark green and then reddish in fall
3 leaf Boston Ivy/Japanese Ivy
Parthenocissus tricuspidata
Edible drupes of red or black berries, prickly, 1.5 inch crinkly ruffled divided fanwise serrate PINNATEbutlookspalmate, loose white flower clusters
Bramble/cane berry
Rubus
Round greenredbluepurple berries, climber, edible fruit and leaves, green foliage
Grape
Vitis cv.
Spring flower clusters to 12 inches, cream colored, green compound leaves of medium-density foliage
Chaparral clematis
Clematis lasiantha
