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| What are the parts of a simple leaf? (5) |
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| leaf blade, petiole, node, bud, stem |
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| What are the parts of a compound leaf? (5) |
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| leaflet, petiole, node, bud, stem |
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Colorado Blue Spruce
describe needles |
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| 4 sided needles, stiff, in-curved, spiny, pointed to 1/4 inch, usually blush green, persist for 7-10 years |
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Colorado Blue Spruce
describe twigs |
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| orange brown turning gray brown with age; without hairs; buds dark orange-brown |
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Colorado Blue Spruce
Fruit |
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| cones to 4" long; cylindrical; tapering slightly at tips; shiny chestnut brown;scales with irregularly toothed margins |
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Colorado Blue Spruce
General |
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| ornamental plant; grows to 150 feet; slow growing and long lived |
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| opposite; simple; 3-5 inches long; clustered toward tips of twigs, margins smooth or wavy; veins prominent and curved like a bow; foliage bright red in autumn |
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| red tinged with green, often with a bluish white powdery coating; marked with rings; tips curve upwards; |
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Flowering Dogwoods
leaf buds |
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| each leaf bud covered by 2 reddish scales; side leaf buds very small; flower buds conspicuous, silvery, button shaped at end of leaves |
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| egg-shaped drupe, 1/2 to 3/5" long; coat red; flesh yellowish; stone grooved, 2 celled; usually in clusters of 2-5; persist after leaves fall |
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Flowering Dogwood
fruit (flowers) |
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| greenish white or yellowish; small; in flat topped clusters; four showy white bracts underneath; open before the leaves |
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| bark red-brown to reddish gray, broken by fissures into small blocks like an alligator hide; a small native tree with low spreading crown valued for ornamental planting; wood used for textile weaving shuttles; varieties with red or pink bracts have been developed |
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| evergreen needles occur singly, spirally arranged on twigs, sharp pointed, four sided, usually 3/4" long and dark green |
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| bright golden brown; buds egg shaped, darker than twigs |
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| cylindrical cone 4-7" long, light brown, scales with finely toothed margin, broader than long |
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| relatively thin, reddish brown, scaly, becoming gray-brown but rarely furrowed on old trees |
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| European species, valued naturalized member of the forest, ornamental, large with dense conical crown; branchlets droop on older trees; wood used for paper pulp, boxes, crates and lumber |
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| opposite, simple with 3-5 shallow lobes, coarsely toothed, light green above, pale green to whitish beneath, turning brilliant red or orange in autumn |
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| evergreen needles in clusters of 5; soft-flexible, 3 sided, 2 1/2 - 5" long, bluish green. Only pine native to PA with 5 needles per cluster |
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| slender, glossy, at first green later red |
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| wings usually less than 1" long; spreading at a narrow angle, red to brown, mature in May or June |
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| smooth and light gray on young trunks and branches; older trunks turn darker, shaggy and roughened with ling irregular peeling flakes |
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| found throughout PA in variety of habitats, typically reaching 50' high, grows best in wet soils, sometimes over 100'; also known as Soft maple because wood is not as hard as Sugar maple; ornamental; young trees browsed by deer and rabbits, rodents eat seeds |
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| slender, flexible, with rusty hairs when young, later smooth, buds egg-shaped |
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| cones 5-8 inches long, without prickles, slightly curved, resinous; each scale usually bears 2 winged seeds as do all our native pines |
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| young trunks and branches greenish brown, later darker grooved and scaly |
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Eastern White Pine
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| Eastern white pines are large, usually 50-9-' currently, but original "Penn's Woods" saw these pines reaching 150'; valuable timber tree, found in moist or dry woodlands; ornamental; squirrels, birds, mice and chipmunks eat seeds and soft needles; deer browse twigs; porcupine eat inner bark in winter |
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