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Tree Trail Species

This European conifer has been planted as an ornamental tree throughout the United States. Like all pines, its seeds mature into cones.

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Austrian Pine

Known as the Tree-of-Heaven, it was brought to the United States from Asia and planted as a landscape tree. It's a source of food for silkworms. The tree's fruit is a thin-winged seed that's produced in large clusters.

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Ailanthus

A tree with separate sexes. During the winter, V-shaped fruit that's 2-winged and 1.5 inches long hangs from female trees. This tree is pulped to make paper.

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Box Elder

Bees make honey from the tree's midsummer flowers. In Autumn, pea-sized brown berries are seen dangling from the tree's leaves.

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White Basswood

As this tree grows, its thin bark stretches and doesn't split. It produces 2 to 3 beechnuts inside a spiny, thin shelled half-inch fruit.

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American Beech

This yellow poplar has tulip shaped leaves and flowers that brown upright. They have 2 inch cones that hold several single winged seeds. Reaching 150 feet, this tree is our largest local tree species.

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Tulip Tree

This oak has light reddish-brown wood that is widely planted for timber production. Its inch long acorn consists of a bitter nut whose base is enclosed in a very shallow cup.

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Northern Red Oak

This tree's fruit is a leathery capsule that's about 2 inches in diameter. It encloses 2 shiny brown seeds that look like the eyes of a deer.

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Yellow Buckeye

Its bark is very rough and covered with warts. This sugarberry tree provides winter food for forest animals. The late-ripening fruit is sweet, purplish and pea-sized.

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Hackberry

This tree produces 2 to 4 inch long pods that split open to release 4 to 8 seeds. It's in the same family as beans and peas. The tree's durable wood is used for fence posts and railroad ties.

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Black Locust

This tree has peeling white and brown bark patches. During the winter, 1 inch diameter round fruit hangs on the tree.

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Sycamore

This tree's acorn consists of an inch-long nut that's about one-quarter enclosed in a cup. Most oak lumber is made from this tree's light-colored wood.

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White Oak

This tree's clusters of pea-sized black cherries are edible, although slightly bitter. An extract from its bark was developed by Native Americans as a cough remedy and it's still used today.

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Black Cherry

This tree has 0.3 inch dark blueberries which are eaten by birds. There's an aromatic oil obtained from all parts of the tree which is used to perfume soaps and flavor medicines.

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Sassafras

This commercially valuable lumber tree is named after its round 2-inch fruit, a delicious dark nut enclosed in a thick green husk. Native Americans and pioneers made a brown dye from the husk.

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Black Walnut

This oak's acorn has a half-inch long nut that's almost half-enclosed in a scaly cup. It's edible if roasted.

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Chinquapin Oak

This oak can grow up to 100 feet in height. It's very similar to the shorter Northern Red Oak that's 70 feet tall.

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Shumard Oak

This tree's leaves are usually 3-lobed. Its wood is strong and hard.

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Black Maple

The Bur Oak takes its name from the fringe around the cup covering the lower half of the inch-long acorn nut. This tree is related to the White Oak.

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Bur Oak

This tree's inch-long, thin-husked and thin-shelled nut contains a kernel that's so bitter even squirrels avoid it. The tree's wood is good for smoking hams.

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Bitternut Hickory

Native Americans made a sweet drink called hickory from this tree's round, 1-inch nuts which are enclosed in thick 4-sectioned green husks. This tree makes the best firewood.

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Shagbark Hickory

Native Americans discovered how to turn this tree's sap into syrup. They also ate the seeds from the tree's fruit.

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Sugar Maple

This tree's oval half-inch fruit consists of a papery wing surrounding a flat seed. Unfortunately, Dutch elm disease has destroyed many American Elms.

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American Elm

Photos by Rudy Siegel

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