Week 5

Question 1

• evergreen with undivided fronds
• easy to grow
• likes shade to part sun and moist well drained soil
• temp. hardy
• small in size.
• used in the 1800’s for medicinal reasons (spleen)

Answer 1

Asplenium scolopendrium (Hart’s Tongue Fern)

Question 2

• herbaceous evergreen
• all parts are poisonous
• takes 2-3 years to blossom (grown from seed)
• flowers have 5 petal-like sepals
• flowers in early spring
• likes sun to part sun
• disease and pest free

Answer 2

Helleborus orientalis (Lenten Rose)

Question 3

• fragrant yellow flowers borne in erect raceme
• 4-10 leaflets with some spines
• purple berries
• 6-8’ tall
• likes full sun to part shade
• slow growing

Answer 3

Mahonia bealei (Beale’s Mahonia, Leatherleaf Mahonia)

Question 4

• bright yellow flowers borne in erect raceme
• 9-21’ tall
• slow growing
• leaflets have many spines

Answer 4

Mahonia lomariifolia (Chinese/Burmese Mahonia)

Question 5

• large tree in wild but usually 10-15” cultivated
• 2 needle bunch
• orange-red bark
• needles yellow in winter
• horizontally spreading branches and flattened mature crown
• often multi-trunked
• often used as bonsai
• many cones hence the epithet
• not salt tolerant

Answer 5

Pinus densiflora ‘Umbracullifera’ (Tanyosho Pine)

Question 6

• dark green large evergreen tree
• 2 needle bunch
• cones are small with long, thin, fragile scales. They are purple-blue before maturation.
• drought and wind tolerant
• slow growing long lived tree

Answer 6

Pinus leucodermis - syn. P. heldreichii var leucodermis (Bosnian Pine)

Question 7

• low shrub-like often multi-stemmed plant (10-20” tall)
• 2 needle bunch
• cold tolerant
• used for pine-cone syrup
• symmetrical cones, thin-scaled, and mat textured.

Answer 7

Pinus mugo (Mugo Pine)

Question 8

• coniferous evergreen medium size tree (15-25” tall)
• 5 needle bunch
• usually as broad as it is tall, forming dense conical crown
• cones are 4-7cm long, with broad rounded scales
• specific epithet means “small flowering”

Answer 8

Pinus parviflora (Japanese White Pine)

Question 9

• large coniferous evergreen tree
• 2-3 needle bunch
• yellow-orange bark
• subject to pine beetle attacks
• 5-10 year fire cycle

Answer 9

Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine)

Question 10

• averages 3” tall and 4” width
• 5 needle bunch
• suffers from urban stress and pests
• 6-9’ cones

Answer 10

Pinus strobus ‘Nana’ (Dwarf White Pine)

Question 11

• large long lived tree
• native to NE united states
• 5 needle bunch
• flexible bluish-green finely serrated
• subject to pests and blister disease

Answer 11

Pinus strobus (Eastern White Pine)

Question 12

• mounding/arching fast growing long lived 6-18” evergreen tree
• bluish-green 5 needle bunch
• branches typically spread horizontally for a short distance before drooping.
• subject to pests (spider mites, weevils, etc.) and disease.

Answer 12

Pinus strobus ‘Pendula’ (Weeping White Pine)

Question 13

• fast growing medium size (12-15”) evergreen tree with moderately contorted branches and conspicuously twisted Blue green needles
• abundant blue-gray to blue-green 5 needle bunches
• fairly old cultivar

Answer 13

Pinus strobus ‘Torulosa’ (Twisted Eastern White Pine)

Question 14

• species of pine native to Eurasia
• fairly short evergreen coniferous tree with blue-green foliage in 2-needle bunches.
• orange-red bark that is thick, scaly-dark grey-brown on lower trunk.
• tolerates a little salt
• can tolerate poor soil conditions

Answer 14

Pinus sylvestris (Scot’s Pine)