Trees of Indiana

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Trees of Indiana
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• Do you know what type of tree leaf this is?
• If you said it is the state tree you are correct.
  It is a tulip tree or yellow popular.
• If you did not know what this tree was then that
  is ok. We are going to go through a few trees
  that are found commonly in Indiana. You should
  be able to identify a trees leaf by looking at
  it. You should also be able to read a
  description of the leaf and recall what type of
  tree it is.

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Table of contents

• Pine trees
• Maple trees
• Mixed trees
• Quiz for Tree leaf identification

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Pines

• The first set of trees are evergreens. These
  trees do not lose their leaves.

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Jack Pine

• These trees have short needles (about 1.5 inches
  long), in bundles of 2. They grow south of the
  Arctic Circle. In Indiana, however, these trees
  are small, under 30 feet. They tolerate wet
  soils, but usually grow on sandy soils.

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White Pine

• These trees have needles that are in bundles of
  5, up to 4 inches long, and are thin and soft.
  This tree can grow to 100 feet in height. It is
  susceptible to White Pine Blister Rust, a disease
  which kills White Pines

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Red Pine

• Red pine needles are 4 to 6 inches long and in
  bundles of two. The dark green needles are soft
  and flexible. When bent sharply, they snap or
  break cleanly rather than just folding over as do
  the needles of other pines.

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Virginia Pine

• Virginia Pine needles are in bundles of 2s, or
  sometimes 3s, up to 3 inches long. Cones are
  sharp and prickly. Virginia Pines are small to
  medium-sized pine trees, growing up to 60 feet.

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Facts a bought pines
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Jack pines

• They regenerate well after fire and have also
  been used on strip-mined areas. Large strands of
  Jack Pine in Michigan provide breeding habitats
  for the endangered Kirtlands Warbler.

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White pine

• Today, White Pine is logged for the production of
  lumber, creosote-soaked telephone poles, and as
  pulp for the production of paper. White Pine is
  commonly transplanted today as a landscape
  evergreen tree, and is also sold as a cut
  Christmas tree.

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Red Pine

• Builders use the wood of this tree in building
  construction, but it must be chemically treated
  in order to be used in contact with the soil. In
  marine applications it is used for piling and for
  ships' masts and spars. Also it often is used as
  an ornamental tree.

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Virginia Pine

• When it reaches harvestable size, it is used for
  firewood or lumber. It is also grown in southern
  states as a Christmas tree where it is sheared
  into a more formal pyramidal shape.

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Maple trees

• This is the second part of the tree leaf
  identification.
• There are over 150 different types of species of
  maples. So we are just going to cover four that
  you may encounter.

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Black Maple

• This leaf usually has three lobes, but may
  sometimes have five lobes like the sugar maple
  leaf. Black maple prefers moister sites and grows
  best on floodplains where the soil is very moist
  and rich in nutrients.

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Sugar Maple

• 5-lobed (rarely 3-lobed) bright green upper
  surface and a paler green lower surface.

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Silver Maple

• These deeply lobed leaves are silvery on their
  under surfaces, a feature often noticeable when
  leaves are blown by wind.
• Each leaf has three pointed lobes with shallow
  sinuses between them. Each leaf is dull green
  above with whitish hairs below.

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Red Maple

• Five-lobed character, where the two basal lobes
  are much smaller (left), or with a three-lobed,
  trident-shaped structure (right), which is more
  common.

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Facts about maples
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Black Maple

• Black Maple is valuable for its timber and as a
  source of sugar syrup.

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Sugar Maple

• Sugar maple is the primary source of the sweet
  sap used to make maple syrup and maple sugar. In
  the furniture and woodworking industry, where
  this tree also is a major player, it's often
  called hard maple, rock maple, curly maple, or
  bird's-eye maple.

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Silver Maple

• Its uses generally are limited to cheap
  furniture, pulpwood, containers, and as a fuel.

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Red Maple

• Used for landscaping.

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Mixed trees
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Black Cherry

• These shiny leaves are dark green on their upper
  sides and light green on their undersides. They
  also alternate, are simple, and have fine
  serrations along their margins

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Black Walnut

• Alternate and pinnately compound, these leaves
  emerge later in the spring than most other trees,
  and have 11 to 23 leaflets . Each leaflet has
  fine serrations on its margin. They are usually
  beautiful and fine-grained.

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White Ash

• Pinnately compound, and have 5 to 9 dark green
  leaflets (usually seven or nine, shown at left)
  with white-green undersides (shown as a detached
  leaflet at left, which is the reason that White
  Ash is so-named).

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Tulip Tree/Yellow Popular

• Alternate, simple, 4"-6" in diameter, generally
  4 lobed, bright green.

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Black Cherry

• The Black Cherry tree produces hard,
  reddish-brown wood that makes a fine polish and
  is commercially valued for its use in a large
  number of products such as furniture, veneers,
  cabinets, interior paneling, gun stocks,
  instrument/tool handles and musical instruments.

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Black Walnut

• It is the ultimate choice for making solid wood
  furniture, interior trim, gunstocks, and
  high-quality veneer.

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White Ash

• From the forest, its wood is harvested to make
  baseball bats, tool handles, furniture, and for
  use as firewood. Among the ashes, its wood is
  considered the best.

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Tulip/Yellow Popular

• This is the Indiana state tree.
• It is the hardest soft wood.
• It is used in naval construction and
  cabinetmaking

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Quiz

• You just need to click the answer you think is
  correct.

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What tree has needles that are in bundles of 5?

• White Pine
• Red Pine
• Blue Pine
• Jack Pine

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What tree has needles that are short (about 1.5
inches long), in bundles of two?

• White Pine
• Red Pine
• Jack Pine
• Virginia Pine

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What characteristic is only found with Red Pine
needles?

• It has five needles in a bundle
• It has two needles that are very short.
• When the needles are bent sharply, they snap or
  break cleanly.
• The needles come in bundles of two or three.

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These needles are in bundles of 2s, or sometimes
3s, up to 3 inches long. Their cones have a
sharp prickle.

• Red Pine
• White Pine
• Jack Pine
• Virginia Pine

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What tree leaf usually has three lobes?

• Red maple
• Black maple
• Silver maple
• Sugar maple

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What tree is 5-lobed, has a bright green upper
surface and a paler green lower surface?

• Sugar maple
• Red maple
• Silver maple
• Black maple

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What leaf is the silver maple leaf?
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What leaf is from the red maple.
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What leaf is from the state tree.
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What tree has light green to white undersides of
leaf.

• Black Walnut
• White Ash
• Yellow Popular
• Black Cherry

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What leaf is from the Cherry Tree?
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What leaf comes from the Black Walnut tree?
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