3.03 (part 1)

Dwarf yaupon, helleri holly, and dwarf burford holly are all in the genus called:

• Ficus

• Ilex

• Juniperus

• Prunus

At the local restaurant, Crystal saw a hanging basket with large green leaf-like growth that looked similar to a long vein down the middle. It had many little leaf-like structures called fronds, but it had no flowers or seeds. This plant is a:

• boston fern

• glossy abelia

• shasta daisy

• wax begonia

The scientific name for an azalea is:

• Cornus florida

• Ficus benjamina

• Rhododendron kiusianum

• Saintpaulia ionantha

What is the common name for Elisha’s large evergreen tree with clusters that each contain 5 needle-like leaves about four inches long?

• Azalea

• Eastern redbud

• Eastern white pine

• Red maple

Gene has an interior plant in his office. The plant is about 4 feet tall and looks similar to a little pine or cedar tree with dark green leaves. It is a/an:

• eastern white pine

• evergreen euonymus

• Norfolk Island Pine

• weeping fig

A small, deciduous, specimen, flowering tree that is usually crooked and has white flowers that are really bracts with a brownish color on the tip of each bract is a

• Catawba rhododendron

• flowering dogwood

• Leyland cypress

• pin oak

Sam found a medium-sized deciduous tree that has four trunks or stems with thin sheets of light colored bark peeling off each trunk. What is the common name of this tree?

• Japanese barberry

• Red Maple

• River birch

• Sweet gum

Jan saw a tree with the scientific name Acer palmatum. What is the plant's common name?

• Eastern White Pine

• Flowering dogwood

• Japanese maple

• Pin oak

In a scientific name, cv. means:

• center vein

• color variegated

• century five

• cultivar

Neil found a large deciduous tree that has red flowers in early spring before the leaves appeared. In the summer, the leaves are dark green with a gray color under the leaves which have three to five lobes. The bark is light gray.The common name of this tree is:

• crape myrtle

• eastern white pine

• flowering dogwood

• red maple