Horticulture I - Plant ID Quiz #1

Small deciduous specimen tree. Form is crooked. Flowers are actually bracts, white with brownish color on the tip of each bract.

• Cornus florida

• Pyrus calleryana

• Forsythia x intermedia

• Betula nigra

Medium sized deciduous tree. White flowers in the spring. Reddish-purple leaf color in the fall. Form is symmetrical and doesn't require pruning to achieve this shape.

• Betula nigra

• Forsythia x intermedia

• Pyrus calleryana

• Rosa sp.

Large deciduous shrub with bright yellow flowers in the very early spring.

• Pyrus calleryana

• Cornus florida

• Dieffenbachia maculata

• Forsythia x intermedia

Medium sized deciduous tree that often has four trunks or stems. The bark is light colored and in thin sheets which peel off the trunk.

• Betula nigra

• Dieffenbachia maculata

• Forsythia x intermedia

• Pyrus calleryana

Houseplant/interior plant. Leaves are large and variegated green and cream colored. Trunk is thick.

• Forsythia x intermedia

• Cornus florida

• Dieffenbachia maculata

• Betula nigra

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• Pyrus calleryana / Bradford pear

• Forsythia x intermedia / Border forsythia

• Betula nigra / River birch

• Cornus florida / Flowering dogwood

• Pyrus calleryana / Bradford pear

• Forsythia x intermedia / Border forsythia

• Betula nigra / River birch

• Cornus florida / Flowering dogwood

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• Pyrus calleryana / Bradford pear

• Forsythia x intermedia / Border forsythia

• Betula nigra / River birch

• Cornus florida / Flowering dogwood

• Pyrus calleryana / Bradford pear

• Forsythia x intermedia / Border forsythia

• Betula nigra / River birch

• Cornus florida / Flowering dogwood

See photo

• Pyrus calleryana / Bradford pear

• Forsythia x intermedia / Border forsythia

• Dieffenbachia maculata / Dumb cane

• Cornus florida / Flowering dogwood