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Dicots (Class Magnoliopsida)Observer
ccookDescription
The bark of this tree is very thick. The leaves are huge and thick compared to the other trees' leaves in this area.
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American Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)Observer
ccookDescription
The bark of this tree is flaky and is mostly grey with a little bit of brown. The leafs on this tree are average thickness for the leaves around in this area. The leafs are also slightly bristled at the tips of the lobes. These leaves are lobbed and toothed.
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Basswood (Tilia americana)Observer
ccookDescription
The bark of this tree is grey and more "bumpy" or "wavy" then most trees in that area. The leafs are "heart shaped" and have teeth and a long stem. The main central veins branch out from one area.
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Black Oak (Quercus velutina)Observer
ccookDescription
The leaves of this tree have bristle on the ends and have numerous lobes. The bark in this tree is very smooth and is grey.
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Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)Observer
ccookDescription
The bark of this tree is a brown/ grey and is not as thick as the other trees in this area. The leaf for this tree is smooth. This tree also produces red berries.
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American Beech (Fagus grandifolia)Observer
ccookDescription
The bark of the tree was grey and very smooth. There are as many teeth as veins on the leaves. The leas is also smooth.
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Elms (Genus Ulmus)Observer
ccookDescription
(This leaf in the "Leaf Finder" book the tree was known as Chinquapin Oak) The leaf and stem are pubescent, the stem is really short, the leaf is doubly toothed and for each main tooth, there is a vein.
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White Ash (Fraxinus americana)Observer
ccookDescription
The leaf is composed of leaflets. The back of these leafs are a more pale green. These leaflets have very small and subtle teeth.
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Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum)Observer
ccookDescription
The veins on the tree's leafs branch out from one point and were thin. The bark on this tree was brown/grey and are rough and thick. The tree is 25 feet high.
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Sassafras (Sassafras albidum)Observer
ccookDescription
The leaves on this tree had 3 different leaves; one that was lobbed that looked like a mitten, another lobbed leaf that has 3 lobes, and a leaf that is a simple leaf. When you break these leafs, there is a distinguished smell of licorice.
