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- Shrub
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- Branch
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- Leaf
Identifying characteristics:
1. Evergreen shrub
2. Alternate shiny dark green entire leaves
3. Brilliantly colored funnel-form terminal flower clusters
Rhododendron hybrid, Azalea (evergreen)
July 12, 2009 at 3:21 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: alternate, broad leaf evergreen, elliptical, lustrous leaves, Shrub, simple leaf
Pieris japonica, Japanese Pieris
July 12, 2009 at 2:28 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: alternate, broad leaf evergreen, lustrous leaves, serrate, Shrub, simple leaf
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- Shrub
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- Branch
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- Leaf
IDentifying features:
- Simple alternate evergreen leaves with shallow toothed margins held in whorls at shoot tip
- Pendulous clusters of small white urn-shaped flowers, followed by persistent dehiscent 1/4″ long brown capsules
- Reddish-bronze new growth
Prunus cerasifera ‘Thundercloud’, Cherry plum
July 12, 2009 at 1:34 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: alternate, juglone (walnut) tolerant, lustrous leaves, serrate, simple leaf, tree
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- Tree
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- Branch
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- Leaf
Identifying characteristics:
- Alternate lustrous deep purple leaves w/serrated edges
- pinkish white flowers appear before foliage
- small tree w/upright spreading habit
Hydrangea anomala subsp. petiolaris, Climbing hydrangea
July 12, 2009 at 1:15 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: climber, Exfoliating bark, lustrous leaves, Opposite, serrate, simple leaf
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- Vine
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- Aerial rootlets
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- Leaf
Identifying characteristics:
- Opposite simple serrated leaves
- Root-like “holdfasts” along stems
- Exfoliating bark
- Vertical main stems and horizontal laterals
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
Physocarpus opulifolius ‘Diablo’, Common Ninebark
July 12, 2009 at 12:08 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: alternate, deciduous, Exfoliating bark, multi-stemmed, palmate lobed, Shrub, simple leaf
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- Shrub
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- Branch
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- Leaf front
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- Leaf back
Identifying characteristics:
1. Alternate, palmate leaves
2.Flowers in 1″ – 2″ cymes
3. Multi-stemmed shrub
4. Dark purple-green leaves (cultivar ID)
Berberis thunbergii ‘Aurea’, Japanese barberry
July 12, 2009 at 11:51 am (A Plant-a-Day(ish), Invasives)
Tags: alternate, deciduous, entire, Invasives, Shrub, simple leaf, Thorny
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- Shrub
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- Branch
Identifying characteristics:
1. Single 0.5″ thorn at each node
2. Alternate simple leaves
3. Deciduous shrub with ovate leaves
Euonymus fortunei ‘Moonshadow’, Moonshadow wintercreeper
July 12, 2009 at 11:40 am (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: broad leaf evergreen, juglone (walnut) tolerant, lustrous leaves, Opposite, serrate, Shrub, variegated
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- Shrub
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- Leaf
Identifying characteristics:
1. Opposite evergreen leaves, larger than boxwood
2. Serrated edges
3. yellow green stems
Juglans nigra, Black walnut
July 12, 2009 at 12:16 am (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: alternate, deciduous, Distinctive fruit, pinnately compound, tree
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- Canopy
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- Walnut fruit and leaf
Identifying characteristics:
1. large pinnately compound leaves with numerous leaflets
2. large round fruit which are nuts and stain surfaces
3. kills most other plants in vicinity
4. odor when leaves are crushed
Ilex opaca, American holly
July 11, 2009 at 11:49 pm (A Plant-a-Day(ish))
Tags: alternate, broad leaf evergreen, lustrous leaves, simple leaf, tree
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- Tree form
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- Alternate leaves and fruit clusters
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- Leaf size
IDentifying features:
1. Spiny evergreen leaves
2. Red berries in winter
3. Pyramidal habit
