Trees

Japanese maple leaves come in five basic shapes, and the difference is how deep the cuts between the lobes go. From broadest to finest: Amoenum (wide

To identify seed pods from trees, sort the fruit into one of four shapes first: long flat pods, spiky or round balls, winged seeds, or cone-like

To identify an oak by its leaf, look at the tips of the lobes first. Rounded lobes with no bristles mean a white oak; pointed lobes

Spring-flowering trees give a yard its biggest show of the year. This guide sorts the best of them by flower color: pink, white, purple and yellow.

Birch trees (Betula spp.) are deciduous trees grown primarily for their ornamental bark, which peels in papery layers to reveal striking underlayers of cinnamon, salmon, cream,

Japanese maple (Acer palmatum) is one of the most widely planted ornamental trees in the world, and for good reason. Native to Japan, Korea, and China,

Bradford pear (Pyrus calleryana ‘Bradford’) is a deciduous tree that reached near-ubiquity in American neighborhoods between the 1970s and 1990s. The USDA released the ‘Bradford’ cultivar

Few trees stop traffic in spring the way a magnolia does. The genus Magnoliaceae contains some of the most primitive flowering plants on earth — magnolias