Very large thorns on shoots, leaves deciduous with three leaflets. Leaves smell spicy when crushed. Fruits are yellow and pubescent and resemble a small orange.
lobed leaves, more so towards the tip, with scale like fringes on the cup almost covering all the acorn. Older tree, approx. 25 m tall. Habitat: 40 m away from Diles creek, on edge of tree line with other Quercus and Plantanus species. Road lies within 3 m of trunk for 30+ years. Soil type clay, numerous floods annually. Livestock graze on property.
State - Tennessee
County - Rutherford
Identification - Diospyros virginiana
Location - Undeveloped empty lot across from townhouse apartments on corner of E Northfield Blvd and N Tennessee Blvd
Description - orange-yellow berries, leaves covered in blemishes, dark gray bark with square scales
Date of Collection - 7 October 2014
Collector - Lauren S Hanberry
Collection Number - 6
Associated Species - Berchemia scandens, Smilex bona-nox, Toxicodendron radicans, Platanus occidentalis
A small tree. The leaves are oval and entire. They are also alternate. The fruit is subglobose and is orange-yellow in color.
Large deciduous tree with large lobed leaves. Very large acorns with a large cup and overlapping scales.
Very large thorns on shoots, leaves deciduous with three leaflets. Leaves smell spicy when crushed. Fruits are yellow and pubescent and resemble a small orange.
Scale like leafs, blue berry like fleshy cones, scale like leafs appear to be over lapping on each individual leaf
Large, sprawling shrub with many straight stems covering a large area. Inconspicuos hanging fruits covered by leafy bracts. Fruits and developing catkins visible simultaneously.
Medium to large tree growing in wetlands. This particular tree was found growing in a group of other water tupelos. Associated with bald cypress. The tree is in fruit with many dark purple drupes.
Large tree with smooth alternate arranged leaves. Has fruit that is orange and roughly the size of a half dollar. Ripens in the fall.
Small tree with large leaves. Large fruit around the size of a mango. These fruit are green.
Small shrub. Berries in clusters along the stem.
Medium sized tree approx. 20 feet high. Bark grayish with numerous fissures and ridges. Compound leaves with seven leaflets with opposite arrangement. Fruit a 2-winged samara.
Tree approximately 75 feet tall. Oppositely arranged pinnately-compound leaves, 7-9 per leaf. Bark gray-brown with diamond shaped areas separated by narrow interlacing ridges. "D"-shaped leaf scars distinctive for this species; in contrast to crescent shaped or deeply notched leaf scars on other species.
Tree about 2.5 m tall, bark with moss and unknown liana traveling up trunk, leaves pinnately compound, leaflets tend to be a bit clustered to terminal end of stems.
Small trees and saplings form a thicket. Leaves large, simple, alternate, with entire margins and an obovate shape. Petioles short. Lacks stipules. Fruit a large berry.
Shrub with alternate pinnately compound leaves with 13-30 leaflets. Margins are serrated. Fruits are bright red berries in large clusters.
Medium-sized shrub/small tree with large, obovate leaves (200 mm x 90 mm and smaller), dark green above, light green below, base acuminate, pinnate venation. No fruit or flowers present.
plant grows on side of ravine; starting to lose leaves and turn color; Flower with strap-like petals and yellow; leaves simple, alternate, margins not toothed but with wavy edges
medium sized tree associated with wetlands. Leaves are small, simple, and lanceolate. This species of willow does not have conspicuous stipules.
medium-sized tree, dark grey wood, alternate, simple leaves
Small slender tree approx. 12 feet tall. Grayish bark with deep grooves toward the base becoming smooth going up the trunk. Leaves alternately arranged and simple. Edible fruit yellowish-orange and resembled a small pumpkin or tomato.