1. Deciduous Ornamentals

Question 1

Favored oriental ornamental/bonsai plant, expensive bc most need to be grafted to preserve characteristics

Answer 1

Acer palmatum

Dwarf Japanese Maple

Question 2

Light sensitive leaves fold at night, pink fluffy flowers

Answer 2

Albrizia julibrissin

Silk tree

Question 3

California native, small woody like cones

Answer 3

Alnus rhombifolia

California white alder/Sierra alder/white alder/California alder

Question 4

Large fragrant flowers, butterfly-like leaf

Answer 4

Bauhinia variegata

Purple orchid tree

Question 5

Yellow inflorescence and long pod-like fruit

Answer 5

Cassia leptophylla

Gold medallion tree

Question 6

Early winter’s end flower, mauve-pink redbud flowers, pod-like fruits, simple leaf with short pointed tip

Answer 6

Eastern redbud “Forest Pansy”

Cercis canadensis

Question 7

Spiky bark, showy pink red flower, dry fruit with cotton-like fiber surrounding seeds

Answer 7

Floss-silk tree

Ceiba speciosa

Question 8

Shrubby, red-scarlet to coral red inflorescence, compound three leaflets

Answer 8

Natal Coral Tree

Erythrina humeana

Question 9

3-5 lobed leaves, edible teardrop shaped fruit

Answer 9

Common fig

Ficus carica

Question 10

Vibrant purple bloom, sticky flowers, lovely shade

Answer 10

Jacaranda

Jacaranda mimosifolia

Question 11

Spiky spherical female fruits, 5-7 lobed maple-like leaf, striking fall color

Answer 11

American sweet gum

Liquidambar styraciflua

Question 12

Round crisp fruit, pink,white,or red flowers 5 petals

Answer 12

Apple, crabapple

Malus cv.

Question 13

Pinnately compound 2-4 inch leaves, 3/4 inches wide, small spherical clustered fruits - poisonous

Answer 13

Chinese Pistachio

Pistacia chinensis

Question 14

Mottled bark, red-brown ball-like clusters, deeply lobed 4-9 inch simple leaves

Answer 14

California sycamore, western Sycamore, Buttonwood

Platanus racemosa

Question 15

Round, soft, thin-skinned fruit w hard seed, leaves vary

Answer 15

Peach, nectarine, apricot, cherry, plum/prune, almond

Prunus cv.

Question 16

Usually ornamental w white or pink flowers, sometimes has edible fruit, late winter/early spring flowers, green to dark purple foliage

Answer 16

Cherry plum and purple-leaf plum/Myrobalan Plum

Prunus cerasifera and Prunus cerasifera atropurperea

Question 17

Narrow, glossy 2-3 inch leaves, orange-red single 4 inch flowers, red round leathery fruit

Answer 17

Pomegranate

Punica granatum

Question 18

Fleshy pome fruit 2-6” long, pear-shaped, winter to spring flowers, green foliage

Answer 18

Edible pear ‘Monterrey’

Pyrus x communis ’Monterrey’

Question 19

Pinnately compound,elliptic,rounded end pinnae, orangeyellow ancillary flower clusters, flat fruit spins as it falls

Answer 19

Tipu Tree

Tipuana tipu

Question 20

Scaley, mottled flaking bark that is pinkish orange beneath, single small serrate leaf

Answer 20

Chinese Elm

Ulmus parvifolia

Question 21

White or faintly pink trumpet-like flowers, ovate,glossy,small leaves, mounding/round/cushion shaped shrub w graceful branches

Answer 21

White/glossy abelia

Abelia x. grandiflora

Question 22

Brick read two orange flowers, 5 petals Dash 1 1/2 inches long, green foliage, sprawling

Answer 22

Red bauhinia
Bauhinia galpinii or b. punctata

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Butterfly bush

Buddleja davidii

Question 24

1 inch violet-blue flowers, yellow center, medium light green foliage, oval 4 inch long leaves

Answer 24

Blue Potato Bush

Lycianthes rantonnetii

Question 25

Sprawling plants bloom over long season, phlox-clusters of white to light blue flowers, 1-2 inch elliptic leaves

Answer 25

Cape Plumbago/Plumbago Plumbago auriculata

Question 26

Fragrant, edible, ornamental, attractive, great variety of colorsshapessizes - many petals and thorns

Answer 26

Rose Rosa cv.

Question 27

Blueblack 1/4” poisonous fruit and leaves, climber, dark green and then reddish in fall

Answer 27

3 leaf Boston Ivy/Japanese Ivy Parthenocissus tricuspidata

Question 28

Edible drupes of red or black berries, prickly, 1.5 inch crinkly ruffled divided fanwise serrate PINNATEbutlookspalmate, loose white flower clusters

Answer 28

Bramble/cane berry Rubus

Question 29

Round greenredbluepurple berries, climber, edible fruit and leaves, green foliage

Answer 29

Grape Vitis cv.

Question 30

Spring flower clusters to 12 inches, cream colored, green compound leaves of medium-density foliage

Answer 30

Chaparral clematis Clematis lasiantha