Seed pods, cones, flowers, and fruit are major markers that help in keying out and identifying specific species of tree. Not as dependable as a leaf, a fruit or seed pod might only be found at ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Leaf shapes play an important role in tree identification, providing ...

And as leaves, flowers and fruit usually offer the easiest routes to tree identification, it's best to start right now, in summer. Once you learn to ask yourself some key questions, identification ...

They have a website where you can identify your tree by the shape and description of its leaf. For example, you can start with the basic description. Does your tree produce heart-shaped leaves?

Use the tree-spotting guide to identify it together and ... also be able to spot an english oak by its fruit, the acorn, which you can see among the leaves or on the ground underneath the tree.

Come along as we look through real examples of shape, scales, leaf and branches of various local trees. The featured species include Eastern red cedarwood, Northern white cedar, and more. If you have ...

Pawpaw trees have long, oval-shaped leaves and can vary from short shrubs to 25-feet ... Just make sure you’re correctly identifying pawpaw fruit, and enjoy. Scott Einsmann is Outdoor Life’s gear ...

Do you think you have a good handle on identifying trees by merely looking at ... name from the bright red flowers, twigs, and fruit, while its leaves, which have three to five lobes, change ...