Another exciting new introduction highlighted in Better Homes & Gardens’ New Trees and Shrubs for 2012. 5-7 ft tal, zones 6-9, partial to full shade. If it’s also juglone tolerant, bring it on!
Native Beauty: ‘Whitewater’ Weeping Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
March 8, 2012 at 1:27 pm (Plants to remember to try)
Tags: Acuminate tip, alternate, deciduous, native, shade tolerant, Shrub, simple leaf, variegated
Heptacodium miconioides: Seven-son flower
July 12, 2010 at 9:33 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: Acuminate tip, entire, Exfoliating bark, Opposite, ovate, Shrub
A unique shrub/small tree with beautiful exfoliating bark revealing a nearly bone white trunk. The specimen I observed at Reeves-Reed Arboretum was large enough that it resembled a strange dogwood, with its opposite leaves. Lucky there was a tag on it.
Another great description and photos at the Horticulture By Heart blog.
Betula populifolia, Gray Birch
July 19, 2009 at 5:11 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: Acuminate tip, alternate, deciduous, Distinctive fruit, serrate, simple leaf, tree
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- tree
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- Trunk
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- Catkin
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- Leaf
Identifying characteristics:
1. Long narrow pointed leaf
2.Smooth (not exfoliating) chalky white trunk with black trianguar patches at branch base
3. Fruit is small nutlets in cylindrical catkins ~ 1″ long
Tilia cordata, Littleleaf Linden or Basswood
July 13, 2009 at 12:23 am (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: Acuminate tip, alternate, deciduous, Distinctive fruit, oblique base, serrate, simple leaf, tree
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- Tree
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- Branch
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- Fruit
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- Leaf back
Identifying characteristics:
1. Cordate leaf w/oblique base and acuminate tip
2. Alternate branching
3. Winged fruit…cluster of small nutlets suspended from single wing
Wisteria floribunda, Japanese wisteria
July 12, 2009 at 10:21 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish), Invasives)
Tags: Acuminate tip, alternate, climber, deciduous, Invasives, pinnately compound
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- Engulfing the wood shed
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- Branch
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- Nodes and leaflets
Identifying characteristics:
1. Vines twine clockwise (see photo of shed, twining to right of shed)
2. Petiole flattened at base
3. Alternate pinnately compound leaves w/13 – 19 leaflets, rounded base and acuminate tip
Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Lady in Red’, Bigleaf hydrangea
July 12, 2009 at 12:22 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: Acuminate tip, deciduous, elliptical, multi-stemmed, Opposite, serrate, Shrub, simple leaf
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- Shrub
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- Branch
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- Leaf
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- Flower
Identifying characteristics:
- Large opposite serrated simple leaves
- Flowers are distinctive blue (on acid soil) broad cymose corymbs
- Stems emerge from ground w/little branching
- Cultivar ID: red stems, veins, petioles
Kolkwitzia amabilis, Beautybush
July 10, 2009 at 8:28 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: Acuminate tip, deciduous, Exfoliating bark, multi-stemmed, Opposite, Shrub, simple leaf
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- Shrub
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- Branching
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- Flower
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- Leaf front
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- Peeling bark
Identifying characteristics
1. Opposite broadly obovate pubescent leaves with few teeth
2. Upright arching multi-stemmed habit
3. Peeling bark on older stems
4. 5-petaled white tubular flowers with yellow/peach centers in showy clusters
5. Bristly capsular fruit
Cornus alba ‘Ivory halo’, Red twig dogwood
July 8, 2009 at 10:57 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: Acuminate tip, elliptical, entire, multi-stemmed, Opposite, Shrub, simple leaf, variegated
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- Shrub form, multi-stemmed
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- Opposite branching
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- Leaf front
Identifying characteristics:
- Opposite branching
- Red winter twigs
- Green and white variegated simple leaves
Viburnum dentatum, Arrowwood Viburnum
July 8, 2009 at 10:46 am (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: Acuminate tip, multi-stemmed, Obovate leaf, Opposite, Pubescent leaf, serrate, Shrub, simple leaf
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- Tree form
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- Branching
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- Leaf branching/shape
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- Leaf size/shape
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- Dentation size
Identifying characteristics:
1. Opposite, simple, coarsely dentate leaves
2. Very straight, glabrous stems w/frequent suckers from base
3. Pubescence on veins on leaf underside with bearded vein axils
Morus alba, White Mulberry
June 29, 2009 at 12:16 am (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: Acuminate tip, alternate, entire, Invasives, multiple fruit, oblique base, serrate, simple leaf
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- Branching
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- Leaf front
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- Fruit
Identifying characteristics:
- Alternate simple entire serrated leaves
- Multiple fleshy fruit, 1/2″ long
- Dark green lustrous leaves
- Oblique, slightly ovate base
- acuminate tip
Good reference photos: http://www.oplin.org/tree/fact%20pages/mulberry_white/mulberry_white.html
