Horticulture I Plant ID Practice

Large deciduous tree; leaves with 5-7 lobes; 3-4 bristle tips on each lobe that turn bright red in the fall; acorns for fruit

• pin oak

• poinsettia

• Catawba rhododendron

• red maple

Large evergreen tree; produces cones that are 4-8" long; 4" needle-like leaves in 5 needle clusters

• River Birch

• Eastern White Pine

• Border Forsythia

• Japanese Maple

Tree with scientific name Acer palmatum.

• Japanese Maple

• Crepe Myrtle

• Eastern Redbud

• Norfolk Island Pine

Medium sized deciduous tree; 4 trunks or stems with thin sheets of light colored bark peeling off the trunks

• Dumbcane

• Bradford Pear

• River Birch

• Pin Oak

Houseplant; 4 foot tall; looks like a little pine or cedar tree with dark green leaves

• Norfolk Island Pine

• Geranium

• Boston Fern

• Bradford Pear

Small deciduous tree; heart-shaped leaves; 3-5" long bean-type pods for fruit; pink-purple colored seasonal flowers

• Eastern Redbud

• Pin Oak

• Boston Fern

• Weeping Fig

Indoor plant with the scientific name Ficus benjamina

• Weeping Fig

• Border Forsythia

• River Birch

• Pin Oak

Large deciduous shrub; bright yellow flowers in early spring

• Pin Oak

• Border Forsythia

• Japanese Maple

• Geranium

Houseplant; large variegated green and cream colored leaves on a thick trunk

• Geranium

• Crepe Myrtle

• Border Forsythia

• Dumbcane

Small deciduous specimen tree; usually crooked; white flowers (bracts) with brownish color on the tip of each bract

• Bradford Pear

• Poinsettia

• Flowering Dogwood

• Boston Fern