The Virginia Forestry Educational Foundation provides this 92 page book free to students who learn ten trees. Contact your 4-H Extension Agent
for details.
Key to Leaves of Virginia Trees
Campus Trees:
- Bradford Pear ( Pyrus calleryana )
- Red maple ( Acer rubrum )
Saplings:
- Flowering dogwood ( Cornus florida )
- Green ash ( Fraxinus pennsylvanica )
- Weeping willow ( Salix babylonica )
- Bradford Pear ( Pyrus calleryana )
Other:
- Autumn-olive ( Elaeagnus umbellata )
- Black walnut ( Juglans nigra )
- Tree-of-heaven ( Ailanthus altissima )
- Eastern redcedar ( Juniperus virginiana )
- Black cherry ( Prunus serotina )
- Sassafras ( Sassafras albidum )
- Tulip tree ( Liriodendron tulipifera )
- Black locust ( Robinia pseudoacacia )
Survey by:
Jeff Kirwan, 4/21/05
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry
Page update: 5/4/05
Tracey S. Sherman
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry