Callery Pear Japanese Zelkova Schubert Cherry Eastern Redbud Little-Leaf Linden American Linden Pin Oak Northern Red Oak Teardrop Pyrus calleryana Zelkova serrata Spade Prunus virginiana Cercis canadensis neven Tilia cordata Tilia americana Oak Quercus palustris Quercus rubra Bark has Flowers and Leaves are lenticels; tree is Bark has fruit emerge directly Leaves Leaves Most common tough and waxy tightly vase-shaped lenticels from branches 2” - 4” long 5” - 6” long oak species in NYC Mulberry Katsura Tree Silver Linden Linden Fruits Japanese Treelilac Swamp White Oak White Oak English Oak Morus cultivar Cercidiphyllum japonicum Tilia tomentosa Syringa reticulata Quercus bicolor Quercus alba Quercus robur O All three Linden species Leaf shape Leaves in this guide have similar varies: may be 2” - 5” long; clusters of fragrant flowers mitten-shaped white and (which turn into seeds) Undersides of or have 3-5 lobes hairy underneath attached to a leaf-like blade leaves are fuzzy Elongated acorns Black Silver Cornelian Pagoda American Oklahoma Eastern Empress Paper American Elm Chinese Elm Common Hackberry Scarlet Bur Shumard Black Southern Birch Birch Cherry Dogwood Catalpa Beech Redbud Cottonwood Tree Birch Ulmus americana Ulmus parvifolia Celtis occidentalis Oak Oak Oak Oak Red Oak Betula Betula Cornus Cornus Catalpa Fagus Cercis Populus Paulownia Betula Quercus Quercus Quercus Quercus Quercus nigra pendula mas alterniflora cultivar grandifolia reniformis deltoides tomentosa papyrifera coccinea macrocarpa shumardii velutina falcata Long bean- Sandpapery Only like seed Bark peels off Weeping form; Dogwood with pods; big leaf; tricolor calico Sandpapery leaf; patchwork bark warty silver bark Bark is orange in papery sheets bark has lenticels O alternate leaves leaves O Smooth silver bark Gigantic leaves Bark has lenticels when scratched Osage Quaking Big-Tooth Cucumber Siberian Chinese Orange Aspen Aspen Magnolia Common Types of Tree Fruits and Seeds Elm Treelilac Image Sources: Kumar, Neeraj, Lawrence Barringer, Peter N. Belhumeur, Arijit Biswas, David W. Jacobs, W. John Kress, Ida Maclura Populus Populus Magnolia Ulmus Syringa C. Lopez, and João VB Soares. “Leafsnap: A Computer Vision pomifera tremuloides grandidentata acuminata pumila pekinensis System for Automatic Plant Species Identification.” In Computer Learning basic Vision–ECCV 2012, 502–16. categories of fruits Springer, 2012. “Dendrology at Virginia Tech,” June 2014. v and seeds can Supplementary images sourced from Wikipedia Commons. help you make For more information, please visit nyc.gov/parks. better and faster This publication is copyrighted under Creative Commons Protocol identifications, but Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. The terms remember that Seed Pod Acorn Cone Samara Drupe of the copyright are viewable at: https://creativecommons.org/ for the most part Honeylocust, Oaks Feather, Maples, Dogwoods, licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0. they’re only on Eastern Broom, Ashes, Elms Holly, Large fuzzy the tree for part Redbud and Scale Prunus silver buds of the year. categories species TreeKIT White Pine Atlas Himalayan Horse Chestnut Red Horse Ohio Honeylocust Green Ash Cedar Cedar Chestnut Buckeye Care for a tree in need near you with the New York City Broom Pinus strobus Compound Aesculus hippocastanum Compound Gleditsia tricanthos Fraxinus pennsylvanica Cedrus Cedrus Aesculus Aesculus Street Tree Map! Visit nyc.gov/parks/treemap to register. atlantica deodara Hand x carnea glabra Line var. inermis Urban stressors such as dog waste, litter, O O drought, soil compaction, and aggressive weeds threaten the health of street trees— especially during the first five years after they are planted. However, studies show that Leaves are often stewarding or caring for trees can make them doubly compound; three times more likely to survive (Boyce. tree may have long, 2010., Lu 2010). Learn a combination of Five needles Needles emerge Needles emerge green or brown, stewardship activities to help NYC’s urban from spur-like twigs from spur-like twigs twisting bean pods per bundle O O forest grow healthy and strong. Water Black Red Virginia Scots Pitch American Paperbark Sophora Kentucky Coffeetree Golden Raintree Watering is the most important thing you can Mulch Pine Pine Pine Pine Pine Larch Maple Boxelder Adding a layer of mulch suppresses weed Styphnolobium japonicum Gymnocladus dioicus Koelreuteria paniculata do for your young street tree. Water your tree Pinus Pinus Pinus Pinus Pinus Larix Acer Acer 15 to 20 gallons (three to four large buckets) growth and helps insulate roots. nigra resinosa virginiana sylvestris rigida larcina griseum negundo once a week between May and October. • Spread mulch to cover the whole tree bed. The layer should be no more than 2 inches Waste high, and should not be touching the trunk of Keeping a tree bed free of litter not only helps the tree. You should be able to put your fist beautify your street, it reduces the amount of between the mulch and the trunk. stress placed on the plant. • Adding a layer of compost also improves the • Keep dog waste (both liquid and solid) away soil and gives the tree important nutrients for Cinnamon- from the tree. Encourage dog owners to growth. Check out the NYC Compost Project Two needles per colored bark Very sparsely clean up any droppings within the tree bed. offered by the NYC Department of Sanitation. Two needles Two needles Two needles bundle and upper Three needles that Twigs branched with Irregular per bundle per bundle per bundle trunk is orange per bundle peels are green giant leaves growth habit • Keep garbage and de-icing salt out of the O O tree pit. Consider installing a tree guard or Flowers signage for your tree to discourage people When planted with a tree’s health in mind, from using it as a garbage receptacle. perennials, annuals and bulbs are great Dawn Redwood Bald Cypress Eastern Atlantic False Maackia Tree of Heaven Black White additions to a tree bed. Redcedar Arborvitae White Cedar Cypress Locust Ash Feather Scales Weeds • We encourage residents to plant appropriate Metasequoia glyptostroboides Taxodium distichum Juniperus Thuja Chamaecyparis Chamaecyparis Maackia amurensis Ailanthus altissima Robinia Fraxinus virginiana occidentalis thyoides pisifera pseudoacacia americana Weeds ultimately kill some plants and flowers and other vegetation in street stress others if they grow too large. Weeds tree beds. Not only do plantings beautify should be removed from street tree beds as the neighborhood, they prevent soil O frequently as possible. compaction and help indicate when new • Wear gloves. When removing weeds, take trees need watering. out the entire root system. Leaving behind • Native perennials also help support some of the plant will allow the weed to grow local pollinators such as honeybees back. Use trowels or weeders to dig out and monarch butterflies. stubborn roots. Foliage Weedy tree; leaf smells awful • Put the plant and its roots into a garbage bag, Want to request a new tree? Tree has a strong Tree has a strong has classic Visit nyc.gov/parks/trees or call 311. pyramidal shape pyramidal shape cedar scent when bruised O or compost it. Soil Cultivation Want to learn more? Blue Norway Eastern Pond Watch out for Kentucky Black Amur Pignut Loosening the soil can help the tree absorb Volunteer to care for trees with the Spruce Spruce Hemlock Douglas-Fir Cypress Yellowwood Walnut Cork Tree Mimosa Hickory more water and oxygen. NYC Parks Stewardship Program. Visit nyc.gov/parks/stewardship. Picea Picea Tsuga Pseudotsuga Taxodium Cladrastis Juglans Phellodendron Albizia Carya • To aerate the soil of your tree bed, take your pungens abies canadensis menziesii ascendens kentukea nigra amurense julibrissin glabra hand cultivator and rough up the dirt 1 inch to 3 inches down. This will break up the compacted soil, and allow more water and oxygen to get down to the roots. Boyce, Steven. 2010. “It Takes a Stewardship Village: SPOTTED EMERALD Effect of Volunteer Tree Stewardship on Urban Tree LANTERNFLY ASH BORER Mortality Rates.” Cities and the Environment. Vol 3. 1. 3. Email [email protected] Call 1-866-322-4512 Lu, Jacqueline W.T., Svendsen, Erika S, Campbell, Two white lines to report a sighting. Lindsay K., Greenfeld, Jennifer., Braden, Jesse., King, on the undersides Tree has a strong to report a sighting. Kristen L., Falxa-Raymond, Nancy. 2010. “Biological, of needles pyramidal shape Smooth silver bark O Social, and Urban Design Factors Affecting Young Street Tree Mortality in New York City.” Cities and the Environment. Vol 3. 1. 5. NYC’s Top 24 Tree Species How to Use This Guide Cherry Purple Leaf Plum Chokecherry Lenticels European Hornbeam Football Prunus cultivar Prunus cerasifera Prunus virginiana Carpinus betulus 1 Common Name Norway Maple London Planetree Norway Maple Callery Pear 2 Platanus x acerifolia Acer platanoides Pyrus calleryana Species Name Acer platanoides 3 Frequency Bark is light O grey, smooth, 4 Leaf Arrangement and has lenticels; O Bark has Bark has Bark has Narrow pores on the bark young trees 5 Leaf Image lenticels pronounced lenticels lenticels of tree bark and branches are columnar White and tan Very geometric bark peels off and leaves have Leaves are Crabapple looks like camouflage milky sap in petiole tough and waxy Serviceberry Flowering Dogwood Magnolia Sawtooth Oak Willow Oak Malus cultivar Amelanchier cultivar Cornus florida Magnolia cultivar Quercus acutissima Quercus phellos Honeylocust Pin Oak Little-Leaf Linden Very geometric 6 ID Tips leaves have milky Gleditsia tricanthos Quercus palustris Tilia cordata sap in petiole var. inermis O 7 Top 24 1 Common Name 4 Leaf Arrangement You may know some species by a This icon appears whenever leaves join Leaves are often Buds are fuzzy slighly different name. There’s great directly across from each other on a twig doubly compound variation in common names. Please in an Opposite branching pattern. While and tree may have Leaves use the common names we’ve provided. leaf shape varies within a species, the long, green or brown, Most common Leaf Arrangement is always the same.