Week 3 Flashcards
1
Q
- Large shrub 6-8ft. Very fragrant. - Yellow flowers.
- waxy leaves
- enjoys acidic well drained soil
- winter harry
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Chimonanthus praecox - Wintersweet
2
Q
- Have fragrant white flowers, often in winter
- Red fruit that turn dark when mature
- slow growing
- small to medium size (3-7ft.)
- enjoys rich moist shaded area.
- The leaves are borne alternately, 3–12 cm long and 1–4 cm broad.
- stoloniferous; produces runner stems which will create new plants.
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Sarcococca confusa - Sarcococca, Vanilla Plant, Sweet Box
3
Q
- medium to large tree
- Soft alternating awls
- stays fairly Pyramidal
- easy to grow
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Cryptomeria japonica ‘Elegans Aurea’
4
Q
- Red tint during winter
- Medium tree
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Cryptomeria japonica ‘Elegans’
5
Q
- light green, slow-growing Shrublike conifer dwarf with pointed needles and a coarsely textured, broad upright habit that mimics, in miniature, a jagged mountain outline. Exhibits bronze tones in winter and should be protected from cold, dry winter wind.
- sun to partial shade
- flower color is brown/tan
- can sometimes be dark green or have blue foliage.
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Cryptomeria japonica ‘Tansu’
6
Q
- Dark Green large coniferous tree
- Conical/pyramidal in shape
- bark is smooth and pink-gray in color, later cracked into small rounded plates.
- The leaves are needle-like, the shortest of any spruce, 6–8 mm long, rhombic in cross-section, dark green with inconspicuous stomatal lines.
- The cones are slender cylindric-conic, 5–9 cm long and 1.5 cm broad, red to purple when young, maturing dark brown 5–7 months after pollination, and have stiff, smoothly rounded scales.
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Picea orientalis - Oriental Spruce
7
Q
- Nice Blue color
- Pest prone
- needs full sun
- large tree
- conical evergreen with densely growing horizontal branches.
- scaly grey bark on trunk with yellowish-brown branches.
- waxy grey-green leaves are arranged radially on the shoots which curve upward.
- drought tolerant and can withstand extreme cold.
- The specific epithet means “sharply pointed”, referring to the leaves.
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Picea pungens ‘Glauca’ - Colorado Blue Spruce
8
Q
- orange and exfoliating bark
- deciduous small tree
- sometimes used in hedges
- prefers moist rich soil.
- resistant to anthracnose disease.
- used for dark green color.
- requires sun-partial shade.
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Cryptomeria japonica ‘Black Dragon’
9
Q
- medium to large tree
- Full sun
- prefers moist well drained soil but can tolerate dry hot climate once established as it is native to Arizona.
- the bark flakes away, revealing the very attractive smooth, cherry-red inner bark.
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Cupressus arizonica var. glabra ‘Blue Ice’
10
Q
- “V” shapes form
- once propagated it is easy to grow.
- It is a deciduous shrub growing to 4 m (13 ft) tall and wide, with zig-zagging stems and alternate, simple leaves 15 cm (6 in) long, which turn yellow in autumn. The yellow, orange or red flowers with twisted “strap-like” petals appear on bare stems in midwinter through early spring.
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Hamamelis x Intermedia - Witch hazel
11
Q
- GROWTH SHAPE: Mounding, Arching or Weeping
- GROWTH SIZE: Large: greater than 12 inches (30 cm) per year / greater than 12 feet (4 m) after 10 years
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Picea abies ‘Pendula’ - Weeping Norway Spruce
12
Q
- medium size evergreen tree
- good for urban areas as it remains narrow and tall
- Full sun to part shade
- likes alkaline soil. Enjoys limestone soil.
When needles come off it has pegs. - The leaves are needle-like, 10–20 mm long, flattened in cross-section, dark blue-green above, and blue-white below.
- The cones are 4–7 cm (2–3 in) long, fusiform (spindle-shaped, broadest in the middle), dark purple (almost black) when young, maturing dark brown 5–7 months after pollination, with stiff scales.
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Picea omorika - Serbian Spruce
13
Q
- produces edible fruit (red tart fruit)
- yellow flowers (umbel flower cluster)
- small tree
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Cornus mas - Cornelian Cherry
14
Q
- used mostly as a container plant and prized for its color.
- sun to partial sun
- moist well drained soil.
- fine texture
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Cupressus macrocarpa ‘Wilma Goldcrest’ / Lemon Cyprus
15
Q
- nesting form of Norway Spruce
- small shrub-like plant (3ft.)
- produces dense, horizontal layers of branches covered with refreshing, light-green, short needles.
- often has indentation in middle similar to a ‘nest’
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Picea abies ‘Nidifoemis’ - Birds Nest Spruce
