of Maple Wood Nature Preserve Trees in cooperation with ACRES Land Trust Oaks Maple Family Tulip Poplar Oak trees vary in leaf shape and bark Liriodendron texture. Their unifying characteristic is Sugar Maple tulipifera that they all produce acorns. Acer saccharum hard maple Black Oak spring’s specially sought also called Yellow Poplar or Quercus velutina sweet sap specimen Tulip Tree, it is the state tree for Indiana and Tennessee Red Maple Acer rubrum Bur Oak soft maple with Quercus macrocarpa toothed edges grows in uplands Box Elder Acer negundo Chinkapin Oak Silver Maple the only compound Quercus muehlenbergii Acer saccarinum leaf maple soft maple with deeply cut lobes often growing in wet areas Pin Oak Quercus palustris Nut Trees all are in the walnut family with the exception of American Beech American Beech Pignut Hickory Red Oak Fagus grandifolia Carya glabra Quercus rubra beech family nut husk usually smooth “elephant leg”bark splits to center Butternut Shagbark Hickory Juglans cinera Carya ovata Swamp White Oak oblong nut bark hangs in long Quercus bicolor also called white walnut peeling strips Bitternut Hickory Shellbark Hickory Carya cordiformus Carya laciniosa White Oak similar to pignut with nut husk usually Quercus alba one obvious difference splits to base more Trees of Maple Wood Nature Preserve small trees Odd-shaped leaves Beautiful Hawthorn Two of our trees do not have consistent shaped leaves. Any of their leaves Createagus pulcherima could fit one of three variations. Rose family Sassafras Sassafras albidum Bladdernut Laurel family Staphylea triofolia smooth-edged leaves Bladdernut family orange or reddish bark puffy “bladder” seed pods Choke Cherry White Mulberry Prunus virginiana Morus alba Rose family Mulberry family tooth-edged leaves Flowering Dogwood Cornus florida Dogwood family white spring blossoms American Basswood Slippery Elm Tilia americana Ulmus rubra American Hornbeam Linden family Elm family Carpinus caroliniana soft grain, popular for carving unique textured leaves Birch family also called Musclewood, American Elm Sycamore Blue Beech or Ironwood Ulmas americana Platanus occidentalis Hophornbeam Elm family Sycamore family Ostrya virginiana most large specimens are grows near flowing water Birch family gone due to blight also called Ironwood Eastern Cottonwood White Ash Paw Paw Populous deltoides Fraxinus americana Asimina triloba Willow family Olive family Annona family fast growing grows the “Indiana banana” Hackberry Wild Black Cherry Prickly Ash Celtis occidentalis Prunus serotina Zanthozylum americanum Elm family Rose family Rue (citrus) family corky bark highly prized for lumber spines along twigs Large-toothed Aspen Witch-hazel Populous granditentata Hamamelis virginiana Willow family Witch-hazel family favored by beavers blooms in the fall.