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4-H logoSDS Extras: Leaf and Tree Photos

This page contains resources to support the "What is that tree I see?" unit of the Science Discovery Series Volume 2 curriculum.

Below are some photos of a variety of leaves and trees which will help with identification. Please note that photos do not depict proportionate sizes of specimens. Tree & leaf photos copyright 2001 by Karen Kotvas, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Union County, NJ.   Used by permission.

Click on any image to see a larger version of the same.

Common Trees & Their Leaves
 

Ailanthus

American Basswood

American Beech
 

American Elm

Arborvitae

Black Cherry
 

Black Willow

Callery Pear

  Eastern White Pine
     

Flowering Crabapple (leaf & fruit)

Flowering Dogwood (leaves)


Gingko

     


Flowering Crabapple (tree)


Flowering Dogwood (tree)

Gray Birch (bark)
     

Honey Locust

Horse Chestnut

Northern Catalpa
     

Northern Red Oak

Norway Maple

Paulownia (leaf)

     

Pin Oak

Red Maple

Paulownia (tree)

     

Sassafras

Silver Maple

Slippery Elm

     

Sugar Maple

Sweet Gum

Sycamore

     

Tuliptre

White Oak

 
     
Tree & leaf photos copyright 2001 by Karen Kotvas, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Union County, NJ.   Used by permission.

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