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[Revisited] Carpinus betulus IDed by claw like buds flat against the twigs and yellowish green catkins. European hornbeam is monoecious, so the images below likely contain both female and male catkins. The female flowers are green with three lobed braces. Their length seems to vary, but idk. The males are yellower and around 3cm.
[Revisited] Populus tomentosa IDed by smooth white bark with black spots, poplar-esque buds, and green, long 5-10 cm female catkins (male catkins are 5-8 cm and reddish purple).
[Revisited] Prunus serrulata IDed by remembering it was a cherry from last time I visited.
Liquidambar styraciflua IDed by 5 lobed star-shaped leaves. I used this website to confirm the ID by checking the following features: pointed buds; straight trunk; small, bright greenish yellow, non-showy male flowers borne on an upright raceme (females are borne on a slender stalk, capped with a globose head), with flowers appearing in early to mid-spring. Sweet gum is a monecious species, but it has separate male and female flowers. This is a tree species I’ve only ever IDed by the fruit, so it’s pretty exciting to learn its other features.
Quercus acutissima IDed by long oval leaves with serrate margins persisting on its branches into spring. Also slender, small, pendant catkins hanging in bunches. Bark matches the ID for a young tree.
Gleditsia triacanthos IDed by buds and branch pattern. Current mid-April buds look similar to this picture.
Syringa reticulata, IDed by glossy brown, smooth, stiff branches with prominent lenticels; some peeling bark, craggy bark at the base of the trunk; opposite, simple, ovate leaves with non-serrate margins and leaf stalks; two leaves per stem node; withered leaves on the tree from over the winter; the fact that it’s a small tree. Sharing its tree pit with a bed of daffodils.
Acer rubrum samara IDed by its green pericarps and red wings. The tree was small and thin (young) with white bark.
Prunus serrulata IDed as a cherry by the cherry-esque shiny bark with lenticels, and as a Japanese cherry by the pink flowers and gray bark. My best guess at the variety would be kawazu sakura, since the flowers were in full bloom early April, but Japanese cherry varieties are always a little sketchy and I’m very bad at IDing them.
Cornus cornaceae IDed by multiple trunks with mottled brown-tan camouflage-like bark; hard, dried-out, round drupe with honeycomb like segments on the surface; openkng buds that resemble the paintbrush-like buds that kousas have in the winter, just, like, opened.
