Characteristics and names

Question 1

Conifer, needles in pairs, evergreen, seeds in woody cones

Answer 1

Pinus - Pine

Question 2

Deciduous, palmate leaves, 5 lobes, fruits in distinct pairs, wind dispersed ‘‘helipcopter’’ seeds

Answer 2

Acer - Sycamore

Question 3

Deciduous, slightly wedge-shaped leaf top, glossy dark green leaves, monoecious, male catkins slender, female catkins round green or woody

Answer 3

Alnus - Alder

Question 4

Deciduous, white bark, double serrate margin, monoecious, male catkins pendulous, female catkins upright

Answer 4

Betula -Birch

Question 5

Shrub, small evergreen leaves, big yellow fabaceae flowers, brownish legume fruits

Answer 5

Cytisus scoparius - Common broom

Question 6

Deciduous, smooth bark, elliptical leaves with white hair points, triangular nuts sorrounded by spiny cupule

Answer 6

Fagus sylvatica - Beech

Question 7

Deciduous, opposite pinnate compound leaves with 7 to 13 leaflets, black buds, samara fruits hanging in bunches

Answer 7

Fraxinus - Ash

Question 8

Deciduous shrub, big thorns, small narrow lanceolate leaves with silvery-green upper side, orange berry

Answer 8

Hippophae rhamnoides - Sea buckthorn

Question 9

Deciduous, diamond shaped leaves with backside sometimes covered with white hairs, leaf petioles are laterally flattened

Answer 9

Populus - Aspen

Question 10

Deciduous, alternating simple lobed leaves, acorns

Answer 10

Quercus - Oak

Question 11

Deciduous, elongated leaves, back-side mostly covered with white hairs, dioecious, catkins, humid conditions

Answer 11

Salix - Willow

Question 12

Decidious, light wood, course grey bark with lenticels, pinnate compound leaves with 3 to 7 leaflets, white flowers in corymbs, black berry

Answer 12

Sambucus nigra - Elder

Question 13

Deciduous, pinnate compound leaves with stipule at leaf base and 9 to 17 serrate leaflets, flowers in corymbs, orange-red berry

Answer 13

Sorbus aucuparia - Mountain ash

Question 14

Deciduous, asymmetric leaf base, fruits in clusters with a leafy yellow-green subtending bract

Answer 14

Tilia - Lime

Question 15

Deciduous, asymmetric leaf base, double serrate margin, round wind dispersed samara

Answer 15

Ulmus - Elm

Question 16

Deciduous, elliptical leaves with acuminate leaf top, double serrate margin, fruit is a brown nut

Answer 16

Corylus avellana - Hazel

Question 17

Deciduous, alternating simple double serrateted wrinkled leaves with prominent veins, fruit is a small nut held in a trilobed bract

Answer 17

Carpinus betulus - Hornbeam