Species ID Quiz 1 - Characteristics

Question 1

False terminal, overlapping bud scale, short lateral shoots, catkins, fuzzy, slender

Answer 1

River Birch

Question 2

Dark colored, buds diverge away from twig, zigzag pattern, bean pod like old fruit

Answer 2

Redbud

Question 3

Large thorns, knobby nodes, zigzag pattern, false terminal, raised lenticels, superposed winter buds

Answer 3

Honey Locust

Question 4

Stout, silvery, large leaf scar with owl face (3-bundle U-shaped), fuzzy buds, chambered pith

Answer 4

Black Walnut

Question 5

Huge winter buds, knobby leaf scars (raised), ridged sides, glossy overlapping red bud scale

Answer 5

Eastern Cottonwood

Question 6

White outer covering (bloom), Pointy overlapping buds, prickles, glossy sheen

Answer 6

Black Raspberry

Question 7

False terminal, raised leaf scars, naked buds, round reproductive buds

Answer 7

Pawpaw

Question 8

Superposed lateral buds (sunken in), large seed pod, stout, large heart shaped leaf scars, alternate leaf arrangement, orange pith

Answer 8

Kentucky Coffee-tree

Question 9

False terminal, zigzag bud shoots, bundle scars encircle buds, newer growth = orange

Answer 9

Sycamore

Question 10

Aerial roots, fuzzy lateral shoots, dish shaped leaf scars, 2 overlapping buds (imbricate), cone shaped buds with gray scales

Answer 10

Virginia Creeper

Question 11

Oblong white lenticels, bright red axillary fruit, subtended underneath bivalves, tiny buds/leaf scars

Answer 11

Round Leaf Bittersweet

Question 12

Thin, small leaf scars, opposite, dark brown pointy buds, younger = peachy color

Answer 12

Gray Dogwood

Question 13

New growth = fuzzy, corky layer covers leaf scar, false terminal, lopsided, orange buds

Answer 13

American Elm

Question 14

New growth = fuzzy, hollow pith, pointy orange-tan bud, opposite

Answer 14

Silky Dogwood

Question 15

Tenrule (curly portions for climbing), Tendril at third node = absent, overlapping conical bud scale

Answer 15

River-bank Grape

Question 16

Bitter almond smell, true terminal, dark overlapping bud scale

Answer 16

Wild Black Cherry

Question 17

True terminal bud, new growth = hairy, raised away leaf scars, knobby appearance, overlapping orange/tan buds, rough texture, produces blue fruits

Answer 17

Common Privet

Question 18

Slender, one side red, one side green, zigzag pattern, pink buds, prickles paired at nodes

Answer 18

Multiflora Rose

Question 19

Excavated (hollow) pith, light tan color, pointy conical opposite buds, shreddy, overall boring

Answer 19

Amur Honeysuckle

Question 20

True terminal, buds have scaly dots, overall scaly texture

Answer 20

Autumn Olive

Question 21

New growth = coffee color, overlapping bud scales, pointy buds, true terminal, dancing leaves (flat petiole)

Answer 21

Quaking Aspen

Question 22

Slender, chestnut brown, greener (younger growth), diverging buds, small leaf scars, 2-3 bundle scars, marcescence

Answer 22

Hop Hornbeam

Question 23

Slender, bud scale scars, long thin cigar shaped buds, longer and pointier than hop hornbeam, marcescence

Answer 23

American Beech

Question 24

Opposite/sub-opposite, overlapping bud scale, false terminal, thorn at terminal bud

Answer 24

Common Buckthorn

Question 25

Slender, lots of lenticels (bark), purply gray, naked and fuzzy buds, no terminal thorn

Answer 25

Glossy Buckthorn

Question 26

Rough texture (tiny bumps), more stout, fuzzier, rust colored hairs, indented bundle scars, false terminal, produces a mucus, large flower buds

Answer 26

Slippery/red Elm