HRT 212 Plant Walk 5: Ornamental Trees Part 1 Preview

Magnolia virginiana

Note evergreen leaves, thick like rhododendron

Buds typical of the family (two large bud scales) but not fuzzy like other magnolias

Magnolia denudata

Note very large habit and BIG terminal flower buds with fuzz shorter than star and longer than saucer magnolias

Parrotia persica

Note exfoliating bark and velvety chocolate brown flower buds

Salix 'Flame"

Note: ALTERNATE branching

Single bud scales

most intense color on young wood

Salix matsudana 'Torulosa'

Note twisted growth of stems, single bud scales; messy tree drops lots of branches

Euonymus fortunei

Note, opposite parallel leaf veination, climbing habit

Liriodendron tulipifera
Note very straight trunk, buds like M. virginiana

High in canopy seed clusters shaped like tulip

Cotinus coggygria

Note large shrubby habit

look "singed" around leaf scar (which looks like an elf?)

Veggie odor when scratched

Hamamelis x intermedia

'Arnold Promise' clear yellow flowers

'Jelena' flower petals orange at base and yellow

Note: flowers blooming Feb-March, strap-like petals and woody calyx cups

Zig-Zag pattern to branches, which are very horizontal

Stewartia pseudocamellia

Note exfoliating bark

Buds size and shape of an artist's paintbrush, on small raised stalks

Magnolia stellata

Note: Buds covered in dense fuzz (longest of our magnolias)

Two bud scales, smooth light gray bark

(This is a very old specimen, unusually large)

Magnolia x soulangiana

Note: coarse, clubby habit

Smooth gray bark

large buds with fuzz the textrure of velvet

Chionanthus virginicus

Branches have funky habit, curving down then up

Stems flattened at the nodes

Leaf scars like two black ovals, one on top of the other

Aesculus parviflora

Note multi-stemmed suckering shrub habit

remenants of 10-12" long flower spikes at terminal of most branches

twin terminal buds with large overlapping bud scales

three bundle traces in the leaf scars looks like an "ooh" face

Hamamelis virginiana

Note: Branching habit like H. x intermedia

Calyx cups still visible on stems, flowers in fall

Aesculus hippocastanum

Note: very large, sticky terminal buds, large overlapping bud scales

7 bundle traces in the (huge) leaf scars

very large habit

Aesculus x carnea

Note: Buds intermediate between A. Hippocastanum and A. parviflora.

Terminal buds present, large, but lacking sticky resin.

Bundle traces usually 5

May be single or multi-stemmed