The following is a list of trees and shrubs of high notoriety. Taxonomic families for the following trees and shrubs are listed in alphabetical order, likewise the genera and closely related species.

Araucariaceae

Araucariaceae

Araucariaceae, commonly referred to as araucarians, is a very ancient family of coniferous trees. It achieved its maximum diversity in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, when it was distributed almost worldwide...

: The Monkey-Puzzle Family

Agathis

Agathis

The genus Agathis, commonly known as kauri or dammar, is a relatively small genus of 21 species of evergreen tree. The genus is part of the ancient Araucariaceae family of conifers, a group once widespread during the Jurassic period, but now largely restricted to the Southern Hemisphere except for...

– Kauri Conifers

Agathis australis

Agathis australis

Agathis australis, commonly known as the kauri, is a coniferous tree found north of 38°S in the northern districts of New Zealand's North Island. It is the largest but not tallest species of tree in New Zealand, standing up to 50 m tall in the emergent layer above the forest's main canopy. The...

– Kauri Pine; Dammar

Agathis lanceolata

Agathis lanceolata

Agathis lanceolata is a species of conifer in the Araucariaceae family.It is found only in New Caledonia.It is threatened by habitat loss.-References:* Conifer Specialist Group 1998. . Downloaded on 10 July 2007....

– Red Kauri

Agathis robusta

Agathis robusta

Agathis robusta is a coniferous tree in the family Araucariaceae, native to eastern Queensland, Australia...

– Dundathu Pine; Queensland Kauri; Smooth Bark Kauri

Araucaria

Araucaria

Araucaria is a genus of evergreen coniferous trees in the family Araucariaceae. There are 19 extant species in the genus, with a highly disjunct distribution in New Caledonia , Norfolk Island, eastern Australia, New Guinea, Argentina, Chile, and southern Brazil.-Description:Araucaria are mainly...

– Monkey Puzzle Trees

Araucaria angustifolia

Araucaria angustifolia

Araucaria angustifolia, the Paraná pine or Brazilian pine , is a species in the conifer genus Araucaria. Covering an original area of 233000 km², it is native to southern Brazil Araucaria angustifolia, the Paraná pine or Brazilian pine , is a species in the conifer genus Araucaria. Covering an...

– Paraná Pine

Araucaria araucana

Araucaria araucana

Araucaria araucana is an evergreen tree growing to tall with a trunk diameter. The tree is native to central and southern Chile, western Argentina and south Brazil. Araucaria araucana is the hardiest species in the conifer genus Araucaria...

– Monkey-Puzzle Tree

Araucaria bidwillii

Araucaria bidwillii

Araucaria bidwillii, the Bunya Pine, is a large evergreen coniferous tree in the genus Araucaria, family Araucariaceae. It is native to south-east Queensland with two small disjunct populations in northern Queensland's World Heritage listed Wet Tropics, and many fine old specimens planted in New...

– Bunya-bunya

Araucaria columnaris

Araucaria columnaris

Araucaria columnaris, the Coral reef araucaria, is a unique species of conifer in the Araucariaceae family. It is endemic to New Caledonia in the southwestern Pacific....

– Cook Pine

Araucaria cunninghamii

Araucaria cunninghamii

Araucaria cunninghamii is a species of Araucaria known as Moreton Bay Pine, or Hoop Pine. Other less commonly used names include Colonial Pine, Richmond River Pine, Queensland Pine, Alloa, Ningwik, or Pien, the wood is sometimes called Arakaria)...

– Moreton Bay Pine; Hoop Pine

Araucaria heterophylla

Araucaria heterophylla

Araucaria heterophylla is a distinctive conifer, a member of the ancient and now disjointly distributed family Araucariaceae. As its vernacular name Norfolk Island Pine implies, the tree is endemic to Norfolk Island, a small island in the Pacific Ocean between Australia, New Zealand and New...

– Norfolk Island Pine

Araucaria hunsteinii

Araucaria hunsteinii

Araucaria hunsteinii is a species of Araucaria native to the mountains of Papua New Guinea. It is threatened by habitat loss....

– Klinki

Cupressaceae

Cupressaceae

The Cupressaceae or cypress family is a conifer family with worldwide distribution. The family includes 27 to 30 genera , which include the junipers and redwoods, with about 130-140 species in total. They are monoecious, subdioecious or dioecious trees and shrubs from 1-116 m tall...

: The Cypress Family

Athrotaxis

Athrotaxis

Athrotaxis is a genus of two to three species of conifers in the cypress family, Cupressaceae. The genus is endemic to western Tasmania, where they grow in high altitude temperate rainforests....

– Tasmanian Cedars

Athrotaxis cupressoides

Athrotaxis cupressoides

Athrotaxis cupressoides is a species of Athrotaxis, endemic to Tasmania in Australia, where it grows at 700–1,300 m altitude.Its common name is Pencil Pine, although it's not a member of the Pine family....

– Pencil Pine

Athrotaxis selaginoides

Athrotaxis selaginoides

Athrotaxis selaginoides is a species of Athrotaxis, endemic to Tasmania in Australia, where it grows at 400–1,120 m altitude. In its habitat in the mountains snow in winter is very usual...

– King Billy Pine

Callitris

Callitris

Callitris is a genus of coniferous trees in the Cupressaceae . There are 15 species in the genus, of which 13 are native to Australia and the other two native to New Caledonia. Traditionally the most widely used common name is cypress-pine, a name shared by the closely related genus Actinostrobus...

– Cypress-pines

Callitris columellaris

Callitris columellaris

Callitris columellaris is a species of coniferous tree in the family Cupressaceae , native to most of Australia. Common names include White Cypress-pine, Murray River Cypress-pine, and Northern Cypress-pine....

– White Cypress-pine; Murray River Cypress-pine; Northern Cypress-pine

Callitris preissii

Callitris preissii

Callitris preissii is a species of conifer in the Cupressaceae family, found only in Australia.Common Names: Rottnest Island pine , Murray pine, maroong, Southern Cypress pine, or Slender Cypress pine -External Links:...

– Rottnest Island Pine

Callitris verrucosa

Callitris verrucosa

Callitris verrucosa is a species of conifer in the Cupressaceae family.It is found only in Australia.-References:* Conifer Specialist Group 1998. . Downloaded on 10 July 2007....

– Mallee Pine; Sandhill Pine; Scrub Cypress Pine

Calocedrus

Calocedrus

Calocedrus is a genus of three species of coniferous trees in the cypress family Cupressaceae.The generic name means "beautiful cedar".-Description:...

– Incense Cedars

Calocedrus decurrens

Calocedrus decurrens

Calocedrus decurrens is a species of conifer native to western North America, with the bulk of the range in the United States, from central western Oregon through most of California and the extreme west of Nevada, and also a short distance into northwest Mexico in northern Baja California...

– California Incense Cedar
Chamaecyparis

Chamaecyparis

Chamaecyparis is a genus of conifers in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to eastern Asia and western and eastern North America. In the nursery trade it is often incorrectly known as "false cypress" for lack of other common name, so as to distinguish it from other similar genera bearing...

– False Cypresses

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana is a cypress in the genus Chamaecyparis, family Cupressaceae, known by the name Lawson's Cypress in the horticultural trade, or Port Orford-cedar in its native range . C...

– Lawson False Cypress; Port Orford Cedar

Chamaecyparis nootkatensis – Nootka False Cypress; Alaska Cedar; Yellow Cedar

Chamaecyparis obtusa

Chamaecyparis obtusa

Chamaecyparis obtusa is a species of cypress native to central Japan.It is a slow-growing tree which grows to 35 m tall with a trunk up to 1 m in diameter. The bark is dark red-brown...

– Hinoki False Cypress

Chamaecyparis pisifera

Chamaecyparis pisifera

Chamaecyparis pisifera Chamaecyparis pisifera Chamaecyparis pisifera (Sawara Cypress or Sawara is a species of false cypress, native to central and southern Japan, on the islands of Honshū and Kyūshū....

– Sawara False Cypress

Chamaecyparis thyoides

Chamaecyparis thyoides

Chamaecyparis thyoides , is a species of Chamaecyparis, native to the Atlantic coast of North America from Maine south to Georgia, with a disjunct population on the Mexican Gulf coast from Florida to Mississippi...

– White False Cypress; Atlantic White Cedar
Cryptomeria

Cryptomeria

Cryptomeria is a monotypic genus of conifer in the cypress family Cupressaceae formerly belonging to the family Taxodiaceae; it includes only one species, Cryptomeria japonica . It is endemic to Japan, where it is known as Sugi...

– Oriental Cedars

Cryptomeria japonica – Japanese Cedar

Cunninghamia

Cunninghamia

The genus Cunninghamia is a genus of one or two species of evergreen coniferous trees in the cypress family Cupressaceae. They are native to China, Taiwan and northern Vietnam, where they may reach 50–55 m in height....

– Cunninghamia

Cunninghamia lanceolata – China Fir
Cupressus

Cupressus

The genus Cupressus is one of several genera within the family Cupressaceae that have the common name cypress; for the others, see cypress. It is considered a polyphyletic group...

– True Cypresses

Cupressus arizonica stephensonii – Cuyamaca Cypress

Cupressus forbesii

Cupressus forbesii

Cupressus forbesii is a species of cypressin western North America. -Distribution:Cupressus forbesii is native to chaparral and woodlands habitats and grows at...

– Tecate Cypress

Cupressus leylandii – Leyland Cypress

Cupressus macrocarpa

Cupressus macrocarpa

Cupressus macrocarpa, commonly known as Monterey Cypress or Macrocarpa, is a species of cypress that is endemic to the Central Coast of California. In the wild, the species is confined to two small populations, near Monterey and Carmel, California. These two small populations represent what was...

– Monterey Cypress

Cupressus sempervirens

Cupressus sempervirens

Cupressus sempervirens, the Mediterranean Cypress is a species of cypress native to the eastern Mediterranean region, in northeast Libya, southeast Greece , southern Turkey, Cyprus, Northern Egypt, western Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Malta, Italy, western Jordan, and also a disjunct population in...

– Mediterranean Cypress; Italian Cypress

Glyptostrobus

Glyptostrobus

Glyptostrobus, is a small genus of conifers in the family Cupressaceae. The sole living species, Glyptostrobus pensilis, is native to subtropical southeastern China, from Fujian west to southeast Yunnan, and also very locally in northern Vietnam and Borikhamxai Province of eastern Lao PDR near the...

– Oriental Swamp Cypresses

Glyptostrobus pensilis

Glyptostrobus pensilis

Glyptostrobus pensilis, also known as Chinese Swamp Cypress, is the sole living species in the genus Glyptostrobus. It is native to subtropical southeastern China, from Fujian west to southeast Yunnan, and also very locally in northern Vietnam....

– Chinese Swamp Cypress

Juniperus – Juniper Trees

Juniperus ashei

Juniperus ashei

Juniperus ashei is a drought-tolerant evergreen shrub or small tree, native to northeastern Mexico and the south-central United States north to southern Missouri; the largest areas are in central Texas, where extensive stands occur...

– Ashe Juniper

Juniperus chinensis

Juniperus chinensis

Juniperus chinensis grows as a shrub or tree with a very variable in shape, reaching 1-20 m tall. This native of northeast Asia grows in China, Mongolia, Japan, Korea and the southeast of Russia.-Growth:...

– Chinese Juniper

Juniperus communis

Juniperus communis

Juniperus communis, the Common Juniper, is a species in the genus Juniperus, in the family Cupressaceae. It has the largest range of any woody plant, throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic south in mountains to around 30°N latitude in North America, Europe and Asia.-...

– Common Juniper

Juniperus drupacea

Juniperus drupacea

Juniperus drupacea, the Syrian Juniper, is a species of juniper native to the eastern Mediterranean region from southern Greece , southern Turkey, western Syria, and Lebanon, growing on rocky sites from 800-1700 m altitude....

– Syrian Juniper

Juniperus excelsa

Juniperus excelsa

Juniperus excelsa is a juniper found throughout the eastern Mediterranean, from northeastern Greece and southern Bulgaria across Turkey to Syria and the Lebanon, and the Caucasus mountains. A subspecies, J. excelsa subsp...

– Greek Juniper

Juniperus foetidissima

Juniperus foetidissima

Juniperus foetidissima is a juniper native to southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia, from southern Albania and northern Greece across Turkey to Syria and the Lebanon, the Caucasus mountains, the Alborz mountains of northern Iran, and east to southwestern Turkmenistan...

– Fetid Juniper; Stinking Juniper

Juniperus occidentalis

Juniperus occidentalis

Juniperus occidentalis is a shrub or tree native to the western United States, growing in mountains at altitudes of 800-3,000 m .-Description:...

– Western Juniper

Juniperus oxycedrus

Juniperus oxycedrus

Juniperus oxycedrus is a species of juniper, native across the Mediterranean region from Morocco and Portugal, north to southern France, east to westernmost Iran, and south to Lebanon and Israel, growing on a variety of rocky sites from sea level up...

– Prickly Juniper; Cade Juniper; Prickly Cedar

Juniperus sabina

Juniperus sabina

Juniperus sabina is a species of juniper native to the mountains of central and southern Europe and western and central Asia, from Spain east to eastern Siberia, typically growing at altitudes of 1,000-3,300 m....

– Savin Juniper

Juniperus scopulorum

Juniperus scopulorum

Juniperus scopulorum is a species of juniper native to western North America, in Canada in British Columbia and southwest Alberta, in the United States from Washington east to North Dakota, south to Arizona and also locally western Texas, and northernmost Mexico from Sonora east to Coahuila...

– Rocky Mountain Juniper

Juniperus silicicola – Southern Red Cedar

Juniperus virginiana

Juniperus virginiana

Juniperus virginiana is a species of juniper native to eastern North America, from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, east of the Great Plains...

– Eastern Red Cedar

Metasequoia

Metasequoia

Metasequoia is a fast-growing, deciduous tree, and the sole living species, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, is one of three species of conifers known as redwoods. It is native to the Sichuan-Hubei region of China. Although the least tall of the redwoods, it grows to at least 200 feet in height...

– Dwarf Redwoods

Metasequoia glyptostroboides

Metasequoia glyptostroboides

Metasequoia glyptostroboides, the dawn redwood, is a fast-growing, critically endangered deciduous conifer tree, sole living species of the genus Metasequoia, and one of three species of conifers known as redwoods. It is native to the Sichuan-Hubei region of China...

– Dawn Redwood

Sequoia

Sequoia (genus)

Sequoia is a genus of redwood coniferous trees in the Sequoioideae subfamily, of the Cupressaceae family. The only extant species of the genus is the Sequoia sempervirens in the Northern California coastal forests ecoregion of Northern California and Southern Oregon in the United States...

– True Redwoods

Sequoia sempervirens – Coast Redwood; California Redwood; Giant Redwood

Sequoiadendron

Sequoiadendron

Sequoiadendron giganteum is the sole living species in the genus Sequoiadendron, and one of three species of coniferous trees known as redwoods, classified in the family Cupressaceae in the subfamily Sequoioideae, together with Sequoia sempervirens and...

– Sequoiadendrons

Sequoiadendron giganteum – Giant Sequoia; Big Tree

Taiwania

Taiwania

Taiwania is a large coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae, formerly listed in the segregate family Taxodiaceae. It is native to eastern Asia, growing in the mountains of central Taiwan, and locally in southwest China and adjoining Myanmar and northern Vietnam. It is endangered by...

– Taiwania Trees

Taiwania cryptomerioides – Taiwania

Taxodium

Taxodium

Taxodium is a genus of one to three species of extremely flood-tolerant conifers in the cypress family, Cupressaceae...

– Bald or Swamp Cypresses

Taxodium distichum

Taxodium distichum

Taxodium distichum is a species of conifer native to the southeastern United States.-Characteristics:...

– Bald Cypress

Taxodium ascendens

Taxodium ascendens

Taxodium ascendens, also known as Pond Cypress, is a deciduous conifer of the genus Taxodium, native to North America. Many botanists treat it as a variety of Bald Cypress, Taxodium distichum Taxodium ascendens, also known as Pond Cypress, is a deciduous conifer of the genus Taxodium, native to...

(Taxodium distichum var. nutans) – Pond Cypress

Taxodium mucronatum

Taxodium mucronatum

Taxodium mucronatum, also known as Montezuma Cypress, Sabino, or Ahuehuete is a species of Taxodium native to much of Mexico , and also the Rio Grande Valley in southernmost Texas, USA as well as Huehuetenango Department in Guatemala...

– Montezuma Cypress
Thuja

Thuja

Thuja is a genus of coniferous trees in the Cupressaceae . There are five species in the genus, two native to North America and three native to eastern Asia...

– Arborvitae

Thuja occidentalis

Thuja occidentalis

Thuja occidentalis is an evergreen coniferous tree, in the cypress family Cupressaceae, which is widely cultivated for use as an ornamental plant known as American Arbor Vitae. The endemic occurrence of this species is a northeastern distribution in North America...

– Eastern Arborvitae

Thuja orientalis – Oriental Cedar

Thuja plicata

Thuja plicata

Thuja plicata, commonly called Western or pacific red cedar, giant or western arborvitae, giant cedar, or shinglewood, is a species of Thuja, an evergreen coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae native to western North America...

– Giant Arborvitae

Pinaceae

Pinaceae

Pinaceae are trees or shrubs, including many of the well-known conifers of commercial importance such as cedars, firs, hemlocks, larches, pines and spruces. The family is included in the order Pinales, formerly known as Coniferales. Pinaceae are supported as monophyletic by its protein-type sieve...

: The Pine Family

Abies – Fir Trees

Abies amabilis – Pacific Silver Fir; Amabilis

Abies balsamea – Balsam Fir

Abies concolor – White Fir

Abies fraseri – Fraser Fir

Abies grandis – Grand Fir

Abies guatemalensis

Abies guatemalensis

Abies guatemalensis or the Guatemalan Fir is an evergreen tree native to Central America and is the southernmost member of the genus Abies. It ranges from southern Mexico in the north to Honduras and...

– Guatemalan Fir

Abies lasiocarpa – Alpine Fir; Mountain Fir

Abies magnifica – California Mountain Fir

Abies nordmanniana – Nordmann Fir

Abies pinsapo – Spanish Fir

Abies procera – Noble Fir

Abies sibirica – Siberian Fir; Fir Needle

Cedrus – True Cedars

Cedrus atlantica – Atlas Cedar

Cedrus deodara – Deodar Cedar

Cedrus libani – Cedar of Lebanon

Larix – Larches

Larix decidua – European Larch

Larix gmelinii – Dahurian Larch

Larix kaempferi – Japanese Larch

Larix larcina – Tamarack

Larix lyallii – Alpine Larch

Larix occidentalis – Western Larch

Larix sibirica – Siberian Larch

Picea – Spruces

Picea abies – Norway Spruce

Picea breweriana – Brewer Spruce

Picea engelmannii – Engelmann Spruce

Picea glauca – White Spruce

Picea mariana – Black Spruce

Picea omorika – Serbian Spruce

Picea pungens – Blue Spruce

Picea rubens – Red Spruce

Picea sitchensis – Sitka Spruce

Picea smithiana – Morinda Spruce; West Himalayan Spruce

Pinus – Pines

Pinus albicaulis – Whitebark Pine

Pinus aristata – Bristlecone Pine

Pinus lauraum luvesem cheesem banksiana – Jack Pine

Pinus brutia – Calabrian Pine

Pinus canariensis – Canary Island Pine

Pinus cembra – Swiss Stone Pine

Pinus cembroides – Mexican Pinyon

Pinus contorta contorta – Shore Pine

Pinus contorta latifolia – Lodgepole Pine

Pinus coulteri – Coulter Pine; Bigcone Pine

Pinus echinata – Shortleaf Pine

Pinus edulis – Pinyon; Colorado Pinyon

Pinus elliotii – Slash Pine

Pinus flexilis – Limber Pine

Pinus glabra – Spruce Pine

Pinus halepensis – Aleppo Pine

Pinus jeffreyi – Jeffrey Pine

Pinus lambertiana – Sugar Pine

Pinus longaeva – Ancient Bristlecone Pine; Methuselah Pine; Long-lived Pine

Pinus monophylla – Single-leaf Pine

Pinus monticola – Western White Pine

Pinus mugo – Mugho Pine; Swiss Mountain Pine

Pinus muricata – Bishop Pine

Pinus nigra nigra – European Black Pine; Austrian Pine

Pinus nigra salzmannii – Cevennes Black Pine

Pinus nigra salzmannii var. corsicana – Corsican Pine

Pinus palustris – Longleaf Pine

Pinus patula

Pinus patula

Patula pine, pino patula, pinus patula is a tree native to the highlands of Mexico. It grows from 24° to 18° North latitude and 1800 to 2700 m above sea level. 30 m tall...

– Jelecote Pine

Pinus pinaster – Maritime Pine

Pinus pinea – European Stone Pine

Pinus ponderosa – Ponderosa Pine

Pinus pungens – Table Mountain Pine

Pinus quadrifolia – Parry Pinyon

Pinus radiata – Monterey Pine

Pinus resinosa – Red Pine

Pinus rigida – Pitch Pine

Pinus sabiniana – Digger Pine

Pinus serotina – Pond Pine; Swamp Pine

Pinus strobiformis - Southwestern White Pine

Pinus strobus – Eastern White Pine

Pinus sylvestris – Scots Pine; Scotch Pine

Pinus taeda – Loblolly Pine

Pinus torreyana – Torrey Pine

Pinus virginiana – Virginia Pine

Pinus wallichiana – Blue Pine; Bhutan Pine; Himalayan Pine

Pseudotsuga – Douglas Firs

Pseudotsuga macrocarpa – Bigcone Douglas Fir

Pseudotsuga menziesii – Douglas Fir

Pseudotsuga menziesii glabra – Blue Douglas Fir

Tsuga

Tsuga

Tsuga is a genus of conifers in the family Pinaceae. The common name hemlock is derived from a perceived similarity in the smell of its crushed foliage to that of the unrelated plant poison hemlock....

– Hemlocks

Tsuga canadensis – Eastern Hemlock; Canadian Hemlock

Tsuga caroliniana – Carolina Hemlock

Tsuga heterophylla – Western Hemlock

Tsuga mertensiana – Mountain Hemlock

Podocarpaceae

Podocarpaceae

Podocarpaceae is a large family of mainly Southern Hemisphere conifers, comprising about 156 species of evergreen trees and shrubs. It contains 19 genera if Phyllocladus is included and if Manoao and Sundacarpus are recognized....

: The Podocarp Family

Afrocarpus

Afrocarpus

Afrocarpus is a genus of conifers belonging to the podocarp family Podocarpaceae. Afrocarpus was designated a genus in 1989, when several species formerly classified in Podocarpus and Nageia were reclassified. Two to six species are recognized.As the name intimates, Afrocarpus is native to Africa...

– African Podocarps

Afrocarpus gracilior

Afrocarpus gracilior

Afrocarpus falcatus is an evergreen coniferous tree native to the Afromontane forests of Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, growing at 1,800-2,400 m altitude....

– Musengera; Zigba

Podocarpus

Podocarpus

Podocarpus is a genus of conifers, the most numerous and widely distributed of the podocarp family Podocarpaceae. The 105 species of Podocarpus are evergreen shrubs or trees from 1-25 m in height...

– Australasian Podocarps

Podocarpus gracilior – Fern Pine

Podocarpus henkelii

Podocarpus henkelii

Podocarpus henkelii is a South African species of conifer in the Podocarpaceae family. It is grown ornamentally in gardens for its strikingly neat, attractive form and its elegant, drooping foliage....

– Long-leafed Yellowwood

Podocarpus macrophyllus

Podocarpus macrophyllus

Podocarpus macrophyllus is a conifer in the genus Podocarpus, family Podocarpaceae. It is the northernmost species of the genus, native to southern Japan and China...

– Kusamaki; Inumaki

Podocarpus neriifolius

Podocarpus neriifolius

Podocarpus neriifolius is a species of conifer in the Podocarpaceae family.It is found in Brunei, Cambodia, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam....

– Oleander-leaf Podocarp

Sciadopitaceae: Umbrella Pine Family

Sciadopitys

Sciadopitys

The Koyamaki , or Japanese Umbrella-pine, is a unique conifer endemic to Japan. It is the sole member of the family Sciadopityaceae and genus Sciadopitys, a living fossil with no close relatives, and known in the fossil record for about 230 million years.Its genus name comes from the Greek prefix...

– Sciadopitys Trees

Sciadopitys verticillata – Umbrella Pine

Taxaceae

Taxaceae

The family Taxaceae, commonly called the yew family, includes three genera and about 7 to 12 species of coniferous plants, or in other interpretations , six genera and about 30 species....

: The Yew Family

Taxus

Taxus

Taxus is a genus of yews, small coniferous trees or shrubs in the yew family Taxaceae. They are relatively slow-growing and can be very long-lived, and reach heights of 1-40 m, with trunk diameters of up to 4 m...

– Yew Trees

Taxus baccata

Taxus baccata

Taxus baccata is a conifer native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia. It is the tree originally known as yew, though with other related trees becoming known, it may be now known as the English yew, or European yew.-Description:It is a small-...

– English Yew

Taxus brevifolia

Taxus brevifolia

Taxus brevifolia is a conifer native to the Pacific Northwest of North America. It ranges from southernmost Alaska south to central California, mostly in the Pacific Coast Ranges, but with an isolated disjunct population in southeast British Columbia, most notably occurring on Zuckerberg Island...

– Pacific Yew

Taxus canadensis

Taxus canadensis

Taxus canadensis is a conifer native to central and eastern North America, thriving in swampy woods, ravines, riverbanks and on lake shores. Locally called simply "Yew", this species is also referred to as American Yew or Ground-hemlock.Most of its range is well north of the Ohio River...

– American Yew; Canada Yew

Taxus chinensis

Taxus chinensis

Taxus chinensis is a species of yew. It is commonly called the Chinese yew, though this term also refers to Taxus celebica or Taxus sumatrana....

- Chinese Yew

Taxus cuspidata

Taxus cuspidata

Taxus cuspidata is a member of the genus Taxus, native to Japan, Korea, northeast China and the extreme southeast of Russia....

– Japanese Yew

Taxus floridana

Taxus floridana

Taxus floridana is a species of yew, found only in a small area of under 10 km² on the eastern side of the Apalachicola River in northern Florida at altitudes of 15–30 m. It is listed as an endangered species.-Description:...

– Florida Yew

Taxus globosa

Taxus globosa

Taxus globosa or Mexican yew is an evergreen shrub and one of the eight species of yew. The Mexican yew is a rare species, only known to be found in a small number of locations in eastern Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, and is listed as an endangered species. The Mexican yew is a...

- Mexican Yew

Taxus media – Anglojap Yew

Taxus sumatrana

Taxus sumatrana

Taxus sumatrana is an evergreen shrub and one of the eight species of the yew. It is found in a number of countries, including Afghanistan, Tibet, Nepal, Vietnam, India, Burma and China, and is known as the Chinese yew. It is typically found at heights ranging from 400–3,100 m in subtropical...

- Sumatran Yew

Taxus wallichiana

Taxus wallichiana

Taxus wallichiana is a species of yew, native to the Himalaya from Afghanistan east to western Yunnan in southwestern China, at altitudes from 2,000–3,500 m.-Growth:...

– Himalayan Yew

Torreya

Torreya

Torreya is a genus of conifers comprising five or six species, treated in either the Cephalotaxaceae, or in the Taxaceae when that family is considered in a broad sense. Four are native to eastern Asia; the other two are native to North America. They are small to medium-sized evergreen trees...

– Torreyas

Torreya californica

Torreya californica

Torreya californica is species of conifer endemic to California, occurring in the Pacific Coast Ranges and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada...

– California Nutmeg

Torreya taxifolia

Torreya taxifolia

Torreya taxifolia, commonly known as the Florida torreya, gopher wood, stinking yew, or stinking cedar , is a rare and endangered species found in the Southeastern United States, at the state border region of northern Florida and southwestern Georgia.It is the type species of the genus Torreya...

– Florida Torreya; Fetid Cedar; Stinking Cedar

Cycadaceae: The Cycad Family

Cycas

Cycas

Cycas is the type genus and the only genus currently recognised in the cycad family Cycadaceae. About 95 species are currently accepted. The best-known species is Cycas revoluta, widely cultivated under the name "Sago Palm" or "King Sago Palm" due to its palm-like appearance although it is not a...

– Cycadian Trees

Cycas circinalis

Cycas circinalis

Cycas circinalis, also known as the Queen Sago, is a type of cycad that was thought to be linked with the degenerative disease Lytico-Bodig disease on the island of Guam; however, the species native to Guam has since been recognised as a separate species, Cycas micronesica, by K.D...

– Guamese Cycad

Cycas micronesica

Cycas micronesica

Cycas micronesica is a type of cycad found in Micronesia , the Marianas Group and the western Caroline Islands. The species, previously lumped with Cycas rumphii or Cycas circinalis, was described in 1994 by Ken Hill...

– Micronesian Cycad

Cycas pruinosa

Cycas pruinosa

Cycas pruinosa is a small to medium species of cycad. It is a widespread but sporadic species in the eastern and southern Kimberley region of Western Australia, occurring also in the Spirit Hills on Bullo River station in the Northern Territory....

– Powdery Cycad

Cycas revoluta

Cycas revoluta

Cycas revoluta , is a plant native to southern Japan. Though often known by the common name of king sago palm, or just sago palm, it is not a palm at all, but a cycad.-Description:...

– New World Sago Palm

Cycas thouarsii – Malagasy Sago Palm

Encephalartos

Encephalartos

Encephalartos is a genus of cycad native to Africa. Several species of Encephalartos are commonly referred to as bread palms, bread tree or Kaffir bread since a bread-like starchy food can be prepared from the centre of the stem. All the species of Encephalartos are endangered...

– Capensic Cycads

Encephalartos natalensis – Natal Cycad

Ginkgoaceae

Ginkgoaceae

The Ginkgoaceae is a family of gymnosperms which appeared during the Mesozoic Era, of which the only extant representative is Ginkgo biloba, which is for this reason sometimes regarded as a living fossil...

: The Maidenhair Family

Ginkgo

Ginkgo

Ginkgo , also spelled gingko and known as the Maidenhair Tree, is a unique species of tree with no close living relatives...

– Ginkgos or Maidenhair Trees

Ginkgo biloba – Gingko; Japanese Maidenhair

Aceraceae

Aceraceae

Aceraceae is a family of flowering plants also called the Maple Family. It contains two to four genera, depending upon the circumscription, of some 120 species of trees and shrubs. A common characteristic is that the leaves are opposite, and the fruit a schizocarp.The maples have long been known...

: The Maple Family

Acer – Maple

Maple

Acer is a genus of trees or shrubs commonly known as maple.Maples are variously classified in a family of their own, the Aceraceae, or together with the Hippocastanaceae included in the family Sapindaceae. Modern classifications, including the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system, favour inclusion in...

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Acer amplum – Broad Maple

Acer argutum – Deep-veined Maple

Acer barbatum

Acer barbatum

Acer barbatum is a confused scientific name for a maple.* a plant originally described by André Michaux, a synonym of Acer saccharum* a plant so named in most recent texts, a synonym of Acer floridanum...

(Acer saccharum floridanum) – Florida Maple; Southern Sugar Maple

Acer barbinerve – Bearded Maple

Acer buergerianum – Trident Maple

Acer caesium – Himalayan Maple

Acer campbellii – Campbell's Maple

Acer campestre – Field Maple

Acer capillipes

Acer capillipes

Acer capillipes , is a maple in the same taxonomic section as other snakebark maples such as A. pensylvanicum, A. davidii and A. rufinerve...

– Kyushu Maple; Red Snakebark Maple

Acer cappadocicum – Caucasian Maple; Coliseum Maple; Cappadocian Maple

Acer carpinifolium – Hornbeam Maple

Acer caudatifolium – Kawakami Maple

Acer caudatum – Tail-leaf Maple

Acer cinnamomifolium – Leatherleaf Maple; Yunnan Maple

Acer circinatum – Vine Maple

Acer cissifolium

Acer cissifolium

Acer cissifolium is a maple native to Japan, from southern Hokkaidō south through Honshū and Shikoku to Kyūshū....

– Vine-leaved Maple

Acer crataegifolium

Acer crataegifolium

Acer crataegifolium , is a species of maple in the snakebark maple group, native to mountains forests of central and southern Japan, on Honshū , Kyūshū and Shikoku.It is a deciduous small tree or shrub that grows to a height of 5–10 m, with a trunk up to 30 cm diameter...

– Hawthorn Maple; Hawthorn-leaved Maple

Acer creticum – Cretian Maple

Acer davidii

Acer davidii

Acer davidii , is a species of maple in the snakebark maple group. It is native to China, from Jiangsu south to Fujian and Guangdong, and west to southeastern Gansu and Yunnan....

– David’s Maple

Acer diabolicum – Horned Maple

Acer discolor – Chinese Maple; Hunan Maple

Acer distylum – Lime-leaved Maple

Acer elegantulum – Elegant Maple

Acer eucalyptoides – Eucalyptus Maple; Gum Maple

Acer fabri – Faber Maple

Acer fenzelianum – Fenzl’s Maple

Acer forrestii – Forrest’s Maple

Acer ginnala – Amur Maple

Acer giraldii – Girald’s Maple

Acer glabrum – Douglas Maple; Rocky Mountain Maple

Acer granatense – Spanish Maple

Acer grandidentatum – Bigtooth Maple; Canyon Maple

Acer griseum – Paperbark Maple

Acer grosseri – Grosser’s Maple

Acer heldreichii

Acer heldreichii

Acer heldreichii, common names Heldreich's Maple, Greek Maple, and Balkan Maple, is a species of maple.This species grows up to 50 feet, and has yellow flowers.-Subspecies:*Acer heldreichii subsp. heldreichii...

– Heldreich’s Maple; Greek Maple

Acer henryi – Henry’s Maple

Acer hyrcanum – Balkan Maple

Acer japonicum

Acer japonicum

Acer japonicum is a species of maple native to Japan, on Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū , and also southern Korea....

– Fullmoon Maple; Downy Japanese Maple

Acer laevigatum

Acer laevigatum

Acer laevigatum , is an atypical species of maple native to southern China , northern India , northern Myanmar, Nepal, and northern Vietnam...

– Smoothbark Maple

Acer leucoderme – Chalk Maple

Acer lobelii

Acer lobelii

Acer lobelii is a rare maple native to southern Italy and the western Balkans. Synonyms include Acer platanoides subsp. lobelii Gams and Acer cappadocicum subsp...

– Lobel’s Maple

Acer macrophyllum – Oregon Maple; Bigleaf Maple

Acer mandshuricum

Acer mandshuricum

Acer mandshuricum , is a species of maple native to China , Korea and Russia ....

– Manchurian Maple

Acer maximowiczianum

Acer maximowiczianum

Acer maximowiczianum , is a species of maple widely distributed in China and Japan ....

– Nikko Maple

Acer maximowiczii – Maximowicz’s Maple

Acer miyabei

Acer miyabei

Acer miyabei is a species of maple native to Japan, where it occurs in Hokkaidō and the Tōhoku region in northern Honshū....

– Miyabe’s Maple

Acer monspessulanum

Acer monspessulanum

Montpellier Maple is a species of maple native to the Mediterranean region from Morocco and Portugal in the west, to Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine in the east, and north to the Jura Mountains in France and the Eifel in Germany.-Description:...

– Montpelier Maple

Acer negundo

Acer negundo

Acer negundo is a species of maple native to North America. Box Elder, Boxelder Maple, and Maple Ash are its most common names in the United States...

– Boxelder; Ash-leaf Maple; Manitoba Maple

Acer nigrum – Black Maple

Acer nipponicum – Nippon Maple

Acer obtusifolium

Acer obtusifolium

Acer obtusifolium, common name the Syrian Maple is a species of maple.-Description:Acer obtusifolium is an evergreen maple that forms a shrub, but can also be grown into a tree to a height of about 16 feet. It has leathery foliage varying from unlobed to tri-lobed...

– Syrian Maple

Acer oliverianum

Acer oliverianum

Acer oliverianum, common names Oliver's Maple and Oliver Maple, is broadleaf deciduous tree. It is a species of maple.-Description:...

– Oliver’s Maple

Acer opalus – Italian Maple

Acer palmatum

Acer palmatum

Acer palmatum, called Japanese Maple or Smooth Japanese Maple is a species of woody plant native to Japan, North Korea, South Korea, China, eastern Mongolia, and southeast Russia. Many different cultivars of this maple have been selected and they are grown worldwide for their attractive leaf...

– Japanese Maple

Acer pensylvanicum – Striped Maple; Moosewood

Acer pictum subsp. mono

Acer pictum subsp. mono

Acer pictum subsp. mono, commonly known as Painted Maple or Mono Maple in English, or Ezo Itaya in Japan, or 五角枫 in China, is a species of maple.-Description:...

– Painted Maple

Acer platanoides – Norway Maple

Acer pseudoplatanus – Sycamore Maple

Acer pseudosieboldianum

Acer pseudosieboldianum

Acer pseudosieboldianum or the Korean Maple tree, also known as the Purplebloom Maple, is a species of plant that is native to the Korean peninsula, southern parts of the Russian Far East, and Northern China.-Description:...

– Korean Maple

Acer rubrum – Red Maple

Acer rufinerve

Acer rufinerve

Acer rufinerve , is a maple in the snakebark maple group, related to Acer capillipes . It is native to mountains forests of Japan, on Honshū, Kyūshū and Shikoku.It is a small deciduous tree growing to a height of 8–15 m, with a trunk up to 40 cm diameter...

– Redvein Maple

Acer saccharinum – Silver Maple

Acer saccharum – Sugar Maple

Acer sempervirens

Acer sempervirens

Acer sempervirens is a species of maple native to southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia, in southern Greece and southern Turkey....

– Cretan Maple

Acer shirasawanum – Shirasawa's Maple

Acer sieboldianum

Acer sieboldianum

Acer sieboldianum is a species of maple native to Japan and common in the forests of Hokkaidō, Honshū, Shikoku and Kyūshū Islands; in the south of the range it is restricted to mountain forests...

– Siebold’s Maple

Acer sinense – Campbell’s Maple

Acer skutchii – Skutch’s Maple

Acer spicatum – Mountain Maple; Moose Maple

Acer stachyophyllum – Birch-leaved Maple

Acer tataricum – Tatar Maple

Acer trautvetteri – Red-bud Maple; Trautvetter’s Maple

Acer triflorum

Acer triflorum

Acer triflorum is a species of maple native to hills of northern China and Korea....

– Three-flowered Maple

Acer truncatum

Acer truncatum

Acer truncatum is a maple native to northern China, in the provinces of Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Jiangsu, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, and also Korea....

– Shandong Maple

Acer ukurunduense

Acer ukurunduense

Acer ukurunduense, common names Ukurundu Maple and Arahaga Maple, is a species of maple.-Description:This slow-growing deciduous tree grows from 6 to 9 metres high . The flowers are hermaphrodite and produced in May are white to near white...

– Ukurundu Maple

Acer velutinum

Acer velutinum

Acer velutinum, Velvet Maple is a tree species native to Azerbaijan, Georgia and northern Iran. It grows in the moist Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests as wells as parts of Eastern Georgia.It is a tall deciduous tree growing to over 40 m tall....

– Velvet Maple

Acer wilsonii – Wilson’s Maple

Agavaceae

Agavaceae

Agavoideae is a subfamily of monocot flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, order Asparagales. It has previously been treated as a separate family, Agavaceae. The group includes many well-known desert and dry zone types such as the agave, yucca, and Joshua tree...

: The Agave Family

Cordyline

Cordyline

Cordyline is a genus of about 15 species of woody monocotyledonous flowering plants in family Asparagaceae, subfamily Lomandroideae. The subfamily has previously been treated as a separate family Laxmanniaceae, or Lomandraceae. Other authors have placed the genus in the Agavaceae...

– Cordyline Trees

Cordyline australis – Cabbage Tree

Furcraea

Furcraea

Furcraea is a genus of succulent plants belonging to the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae, native to tropical regions of Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and northern South America...

– Furcraea

Furcraea roezlii – Furcraea Tree

Nolina

Nolina

Nolina is a genus of tropical xerophytic flowering plants, with the principal distribution being in Mexico and extending into the southern United States. Some botanists have included the genus Beaucarnea in Nolina. In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the family Asparagaceae,...

– Nolina Trees

Nolina recurvata – Bottle Palm; Ponytail Palm

Yucca

Yucca

Yucca is a genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae. Its 40-50 species are notable for their rosettes of evergreen, tough, sword-shaped leaves and large terminal panicles of white or whitish flowers. They are native to the hot and dry parts of North...

– Yuccas

Yucca aloifolia – Spanish Bayonet

Yucca brevifolia – Joshua Tree

Yucca elephantipes – Giant Yucca

Yucca gloriosa

Yucca gloriosa

Yucca gloriosa is an evergreen shrub of the genus Yucca. Common names include Spanish Dagger, Moundlily Yucca, Soft-tipped Yucca, Spanish Bayonet or Sea Islands Yucca.- Description :...

– Moundlily Yucca

Yucca torreyi

Yucca torreyi

Yucca torreyi is an evergreen shrub of the genus Yucca, known by the common names Spanish-dagger, Torrey's yucca, or Torrey Yucca....

– Torrey’s Yucca; Great Yucca

Anacardiaceae

Anacardiaceae

Anacardiaceae are a family of flowering plants bearing fruits that are drupes and in some cases producing urushiol, an irritant. Anacardiaceae include numerous genera with several of economic importance. Notable plants in this family include cashew , mango, poison ivy, sumac, smoke tree, and marula...

: The Cashew Family

Anacardium

Anacardium

Anacardium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas.-Selected species:*Anacardium corymbosum Barb.Rodr.*Anacardium excelsum L. - Wild Cashew*Anacardium giganteum Anacardium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae,...

– Cashews

Anacardium occidentale – Cashew

Cashew

The cashew is a tree in the family Anacardiaceae. Its English name derives from the Portuguese name for the fruit of the cashew tree, caju, which in turn derives from the indigenous Tupi name, acajú. It is now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew nuts and cashew apples.-Etymology:The...

Cotinus – Smoke Trees

Cotinus coggygria – Common Smoke Tree

Cotinus obovatus – American Smoke Tree

Harpephyllum – Harpephyllum Plum Trees

Harpephyllum caffrum – Kaffir Date; Kaffir Plum; South African Wild Plum

Mangifera

Mangifera

Mangifera is a genus of flowering plants in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae. It contains approximately 69 species, with the most well-known being the Common Mango . The center of diversity is in subtropical and tropical southeast Asia, while the highest number of species occur in the Malay...

– Mango

Mango

The mango is a fleshy stone fruit belonging to the genus Mangifera, consisting of numerous tropical fruiting trees in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. The mango is native to India from where it spread all over the world. It is also the most cultivated fruit of the tropical world. While...

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Mangifera caesia – Jack; Binjai; Malaysian Mango

Mangifera foetida

Mangifera foetida

Mangifera foetida is a species of plant in the Anacardiaceae family. It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.-References:...

– Horse Mango

Mangifera indica

Mangifera indica

Mangifera indica is a species of mango in the Anacardiaceae family. It is found in the wild in India and cultivated varieties have been introduced to other warm regions of the world...

– Common Mango; Indian Mango

Mangifera odorata

Mangifera odorata

Mangifera odorata is a species of plant in the Anacardiaceae family. It is found in Guam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam....

– Kuweni Mango; Kuwini; Saipan Mango; Fragrant Mango

Mangifera persiciformis

Mangifera persiciformis

Mangifera persiciformis or Peach Mango, is a species of plant in the Anacardiaceae family. It is endemic to China.-Source:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 22 August 2007....

– Peach Mango

Mangifera siamensis

Mangifera siamensis

Mangifera siamensis is a species of plant in the Anacardiaceae family. It is found in Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam.-Source:...

– Thai Mango

Mangifera sylvatica

Mangifera sylvatica

Mangifera sylvatica is a species of plant in the Anacardiaceae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Thailand.-References:...

– Himalayan Mango; Pickling Mango; Nepal Mango

Metopium

Metopium

Metopium is a genus of flowering plants in the sumac family, Anacardiaceae.-Selected species:*Metopium brownei Urb.*Metopium toxiferum Krug & Urb.*Metopium venosum Engl.-External links:...

– Poisonwoods

Metopium brownei

Metopium brownei

Metopium brownei is a species of plant in the Anacardiaceae family. It is found in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Jamaica, northern Guatemala, Belize, and from the Yucatan to Veracruz in Mexico. The wood of this tree is a valuable source of lumber in Central America and the West Indies...

– Black Poisonwood

Metopium toxiferum

Metopium toxiferum

Metopium toxiferum is a species of flowering tree in the cashew or sumac family, Anacardiaceae, that is native to the American neotropics...

– Florida Poisonwood

Pistacia

Pistacia

Pistacia is a genus of flowering plants in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae. It contains ten to twenty species that are native to Africa and Eurasia from the Canary Islands, whole Africa, and southern Europe, warm and semi-desert areas across Asia, and also North America from Mexico to warm and...

– Pistachios and Terebinth

Pistacia chinensis – Chinese Pistachio

Pistacia terebinthus – Terebinth

Terebinth

Pistacia terebinthus, known commonly as terebinth and turpentine tree, is a species of Pistacia, native to the Canary Islands, and the Mediterranean region from the western regions of Morocco, and Portugal to Greece and western Turkey...

; Old World Turpentine Tree

Pistacia vera – Pistachio

Pistachio

The pistachio, Pistacia vera in the Anacardiaceae family, is a small tree originally from Persia , which now can also be found in regions of Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Sicily and possibly Afghanistan , as well as in the United States,...

Rhus – Sumacs

Rhus copallina

Rhus copallina

Rhus copallina , Shining Sumac or Winged Sumac, is a species of flowering plant in the cashew family that is native to eastern North America. It is a deciduous tree growing to tall and an equal spread with a rounded crown...

– Winged Sumac; Shiny Sumac

Rhus glabra

Rhus glabra

Rhus glabra is a species of sumac in the family Anacardiaceae, native to North America, from southern Quebec west to southern British Columbia in Canada, and south to northern Florida and Arizona in the United States and Tamaulipas in northeastern Mexico.One of the easiest shrubs to identify...

– Smooth Sumac

Rhus typhina

Rhus typhina

The Staghorn Sumac is a deciduous shrub to small tree in the Anacardiaceae or Cashew family, native to eastern North America...

– Staghorn Sumac

Schinus

Schinus

Schinus is a genus of flowering trees and tall shrubs in the sumac family, Anacardiaceae. Members of the genus are commonly known as pepper trees. The Peruvian Pepper Tree is the source of the spice known as pink peppercorns but can become serious invasive species outside their natural habitats...

– Pepper Trees

Schinus molle

Schinus molle

Peruvian Pepper is an evergreen tree that grows to 15 meters . It is native to the Peruvian Andes...

– Peruvian Pepper Tree

Schinus terebinthifolius – Brazilian Pepper Tree

Spondias

Spondias

Spondias is a genus of flowering plants in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae. The genus consists of 17 described species, 7 of which are native to the Neotropics and about 10 are native to tropical Asia...

– Mombins

Spondias dulcis – Tahitian Apple; Otaheite Apple; Golden Apple; Ambarella

Spondias mombin

Spondias mombin

Spondias mombin is a tree, a species of flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae. It is native to the tropical Americas, including the West Indies. The tree has been naturalized in parts of Africa, India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. It is rarely cultivated.The mature fruit has a leathery skin and a...

– Yellow Mombin; Javanese Hog Plum

Spondias purpurea – Red Mombin; Spanish Hog Plum

Spondias tuberosa – Umbú; Imbu; Brazilian Hog Plum

Toxicodendron

Toxicodendron

Toxicodendron a genus of flowering plants in the sumac family, Anacardiaceae. It contains woody trees, shrubs and vines, including poison ivy, poison oak, and the lacquer tree. All members of the genus produce the skin-irritating oil urushiol, which can cause a severe allergic reaction...

– Poison Sumacs (including Poison Ivy and Poison Oak)

Toxicodendron vernix – Poison Sumac

Annonaceae

Annonaceae

Annonaceae, also called the custard apple familyis a family of flowering plants consisting of trees, shrubs or rarely lianas.With about 2300 to 2500 species and more than 130 genera,...

: The Custard Apple Family

Annona

Annona

Annona is a genus of flowering plants in the pawpaw/sugar apple family, Annonaceae. It is the second largest genus in the family after Guatteria, containing approximately 110 species of mostly neotropical and afrotropical trees and shrubs....

– Custard Apples

Annona cherimola

Annona cherimola

Annona cherimola , and originally called Chirimuya by the Inca people who lived where it was growing in the Andes of South America, is an edible fruit bearing species of the genus Annona from the family Annonaceae is now widely cultivated mostly for its sweet fruits that share the name...

– Cherimoya

Annona glabra – Pond Apple

Annona reticulata

Annona reticulata

Annona reticulata is a small deciduous or semi-evergreen tree in the plant family Annonaceae.It is best known for its fruit, called custard-apple, a name it shares with fruits of other species from the same genus: A. cherimola and A. squamosa or sometimes it is called wild-sweetsop,...

– Custard Apple; Bullock’s Heart; Bull’s Heart; Cashiman; Sitaphal; Shareefah

Annona squamosa

Annona squamosa

Annona squamosa a small well-branched tree or shrub that bears edible fruits called sugar-apple, species of the genus Annona and member of the family Annonaceae more willing to grow at lower altitudes than its relatives Annona reticulata and Annona cherimola making it the most widely cultivated of...

– Sweetsop; Sugar-apple

Asimina – Pawpaws

Asimina angustifolia – Slimleaf Pawpaw

Asimina incana – Woolly Pawpaw

Asimina obovata – Bigflower Pawpaw

Asimina parviflora – Smallflower Pawpaw

Asimina pygmea – Dwarf Pawpaw

Asimina reticulata – Netted Pawpaw

Asimina tetramera

Asimina tetramera

Asimina tetramera, commonly known as the four-petal pawpaw, is a species of flowering plant endemic to the state of Florida. It is a small tree or large perennial shrub with one or more main stems. There is a total population count of about 950 plants, all of which are limited to areas in Martin...

– Fourpetal Pawpaw

Asimina triloba

Asimina triloba

Asimina triloba, the pawpaw, paw paw, paw-paw, or common pawpaw, is a species of Asimina in the same plant family as the custard-apple, cherimoya, sweetsop, ylang-ylang and soursop...

– Common Pawpaw; Prairie Banana

Apocynaceae

Apocynaceae

The Apocynaceae or dogbane family is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, and lianas.Many species are tall trees found in tropical rainforests, and most are from the tropics and subtropics, but some grow in tropical dry, xeric environments. There are also perennial herbs...

: The Dogbane Family

Nerium – Oleander

Nerium oleander – Oleander

Plumeria

Plumeria

Plumeria is a genus of flowering plants of the family that includes Dogbane: the Apocynaceae. It contains 7-8 species of mainly deciduous shrubs and small trees...

– Frangipani Trees

Plumeria alba

Plumeria alba

Plumeria alba is a species of the genus Plumeria . This large evergreen shrub has narrow elongated leaves, large and strongly perfumed white flowers with a yellow center. Native from Central America and the Caribbean, it is now common and naturalized in southern and southeastern Asia....

– White Frangipani

Plumeria inodora – Odorless Frangipani

Plumeria obtusa

Plumeria obtusa

Plumeria obtusa is a species of the genus Plumeria , native from the Greater Antilles, northern Central America and southern Mexico. This large shrub or small tree grows up to tall....

– Singapore Frangipani

Plumeria rubra

Plumeria rubra

Plumeria rubra is a deciduous plant species belonging to the genus Plumeria. Its common names are Red Frangipani, Common Frangipani, Temple Tree, or simply Plumeria...

– Red Frangipani; Temple Tree

Thevetia

Thevetia

Thevetia is a genus of flowering plants in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae.-Species species:*Thevetia ahouai A.DC.*Thevetia ovata A.DC.*Thevetia peruviana K.Schum.*Thevetia thevetioides K.Schum....

– Yellow Oleanders

Thevetia peruviana

Thevetia peruviana

Thevetia peruviana is a plant native to central and southern Mexico and Central America. It is a close relative of Nerium oleander, giving it one common name as Yellow Oleander, and is also called lucky nut in the West Indies....

– Peruvian Oleander; Lucky Nut; Yellow Oleander

Thevetia thevetioides – Giant Thevetia; Be-Still Tree

Aquifoliaceae: The Holly Family

Ilex – Holly Trees

Ilex ambigua – Carolina Holly

Ilex amelanchier

Ilex amelanchier

Ilex amelanchier, the Swamp Holly, is a rare species of holly from southeastern North America. It is a close relative of Mountain Holly which formerly was placed in a monotypic genus Nemopanthus. I...

– Serviceberry Holly; Sarvis Holly

Ilex aquifolium – English Holly

Ilex cassine – Dahoon

Ilex coriacea

Ilex coriacea

Ilex coriacea, sometimes known as Gallberry, is a shrub in the Holly family native to coastal areas in the United States from Virginia to Texas...

– Sweet Gallberry; Large Gallberry Holly

Ilex cornuta

Ilex cornuta

Ilex cornuta is a species of the genus Ilex in the plant family Aquifoliaceae. It is native to eastern China and Korea. It is a slow-growing, densely-foliaged evergreen shrub that attains a height of 3 metres . The leaves are usually 5-spined , between 3.5 cm and 10 cm long, oblong and...

– Chinese Holly

Ilex decidua

Ilex decidua

Ilex decidua is a species of holly native to the United States.-Description:...

– Possumhaw; Possumhaw Holly

Ilex krugiana – Tawnyberry Holly

Ilex laevigata – Smooth Winterberry

Ilex longipes – Georgia Holly

Ilex montana – Mountain Winterberry

Ilex myrtifolia – Myrtle-leaved Holly

Ilex opaca – American Holly

Ilex verticellata – Common Winterberry

Ilex vomitoria – Yaupon; Yaupon Holly

Nemopanthus – False Holly Trees

Nemopanthus mucronatus – Mountain Holly; Alpine Holly

Araliaceae

Araliaceae

Araliaceae is a family of flowering plants, also known as the Aralia family or Ivy family. The family includes 254 species of trees, shrubs, lianas and perennial herbaceous plants into 2 subfamilies...

: The Ginseng Family

Aralia

Aralia

Aralia , or Spikenard, is a genus of the plant family Araliaceae, consisting of 68 accepted species of deciduous or evergreen trees, shrubs, and rhizomatous herbaceous perennials. The genus is native to Asia and the Americas, with most species occurring in mountain woodlands...

– Aralias

Aralia elata

Aralia elata

Aralia elata or Japanese Angelica-tree is a woody plant belonging to the Aralia family .-Description:It is an upright deciduous small tree or shrub growing up to 6 m in height, native to eastern Russia, China, Korea, and Japan....

– Japanese Angelica Tree; Japanese Aralia

Aralia spinosa

Aralia spinosa

Aralia spinosa, commonly known as Devil's Walkingstick, is a woody species of plants in the genus Aralia, family Araliaceae, native to eastern North America. The various names refer to the viciously sharp, spiny stems, petioles, and even leaf midribs...

– Devil’s Walkingstick

Cussonia

Cussonia

Cussonia is a genus of plants of family Araliaceae, represented by 20 species. It originated in Africa and has its center of distribution in South Africa and Madagascar.-References:*...

– Cussonia Trees

Cussonia spicata

Cussonia spicata

Cussonia spicata is a tree in the Araliaceae family.It occurs naturally in southern Africa and into tropical Africa....

– Spiked Cabbage Tree

Didymopanax – Didymopanax Trees

Didymopanax morototoni – Yagrumo Macho

Meryta

Meryta

Meryta is a genus in the flowering plant family Araliaceae. There are 27 species in the genus, all small, resinous trees of the subtropical and tropical Pacific Ocean, characterized by huge, simple leaves and a dioecious sexual system, a unique combination in Araliaceae. Meryta has its center of...

– Meryta Trees

Meryta sinclairii – Puka; Pukanui

Schefflera

Schefflera

Schefflera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae. The plants are trees, shrubs or lianas, growing tall, with woody stems and palmately compound leaves. The circumscription of the genus has varied greatly...

– Schefflera Trees

Schefflera actinophylla

Schefflera actinophylla

Schefflera actinophylla is a tree in the Araliaceae family. It is native to tropical rainforests and gallery forests in Australia , New Guinea and Java. Common names include Umbrella Tree, Octopus Tree and Amate.-Description:S...

– Octopus Tree; Umbrella Tree

Arecaceae

Arecaceae

Arecaceae or Palmae , are a family of flowering plants, the only family in the monocot order Arecales. There are roughly 202 currently known genera with around 2600 species, most of which are restricted to tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate climates...

: The Palm Family

Acoelorrhaphe – Acoelorrhaphe Palm Trees

Acoelorrhaphe wrightii – Everglades Palm

Archontophoenix

Archontophoenix

Archontophoenix is a plant genus comprising six palm species that are native to New South Wales and Queensland in eastern Australia. They are tall, slender and unbranched.Species include:...

– Archontophoenix Palm Trees

Archontophoenix alexandrae

Archontophoenix alexandrae

Archontophoenix alexandrae is a palm native to Queensland, Australia....

– Alexandra Palm

Archontophoenix cunninghamiana

Archontophoenix cunninghamiana

Archontophoenix cunninghamiana, the Bangalow Palm or King Palm, is an Australian palm. It can grow up to and over 20 metres tall. Its flower colour is violet and the red fruits are attractive to birds. It flowers in mid-summer and has evergreen foliage...

– King Palm

Arenga

Arenga

Arenga is a genus of 24 species of palms, native to tropical regions of southern and southeastern Asia. They are small to medium-sized palms, growing to 2-20 m tall, with pinnate leaves 2-12 m long.Species*Arenga australasica*Arenga brevipes...

– Arenga Palm Trees

Arenga engleri – Formosa Palm
Bactris

Bactris

Bactris is a genus of about 240 species in the palm family, Arecaceae, native to Central and South America, and the Caribbean. They are trees growing to 4-20 m tall. The leaves are up to 5 m long, and pinnate with numerous leaflets...

– Bactris Palm Trees

Bactris gasipaes

Bactris gasipaes

Bactris gasipaes is a species of palm native to the tropical forests of South and Central America.There are numerous common names for this plant in several languages and many countries...

– Pejibaye Palm

Bismarckia

Bismarckia

Bismarckia is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the palm family endemic to western and northern Madagascar where they grow in open grassland. The genus is named for the first chancellor of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck and the epithet for its only species, Bismarckia nobilis, comes...

– Bismarckia Palm Trees

Bismarckia nobilis – Bismarck Palm

Brahea

Brahea

Brahea is a genus of palms in the Arecaceae family. They are commonly referred to as Hesper Palms and are endemic to Mexico and Central America...

– Brahea Palm Trees

Brahea armata

Brahea armata

Brahea armata, commonly known as Mexican blue palm or "blue hesper palm", is a palm is native to Baja California. It is widely planted as an ornamental....

– Mexican Blue Palm

Brahea brandegeei – San Jose Hesper Palm

Brahea edulis

Brahea edulis

Brahea edulis is a palm native and almost endemic to Guadalupe Island, Mexico; a few stands have been planted elsewhere. This is a fan palm which grows 4.5–13 metres tall...

– Guadalupe Palm
Butia

Butia

Butia,also known as a Pindo Palm is a genus of palms in the family Arecaceae, native to South America in Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina...

– Pindo Palms

Butia capitata

Butia capitata

Butia capitata, also known as Pindo Palm or Jelly Palm, is a palm native to Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.This palm grows up to 6m in a slow but steady manner...

– Jelly Pindo Palm

Butia yatay

Butia yatay

Butia yatay is a palm native to southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and northern Argentina.It is the tallest of all the species in the Butia genus.- External links :*http://www.sunpalmtrees.com/Cold-Hardy-Palm-Trees-Pindo-Palms.htm...

– Yatay Pindo Palm

Caryota

Caryota

Caryota is a genus of palm trees. They are often known as fishtail palms because of the shape of their leaves. There are about 13 species native to Asia and the South Pacific. One of the more widely known species is Caryota urens, which yields sap used to make an unrefined sugar called jaggery, and...

– Caryota Palm Trees

Caryota gigas – Thai Mountain Fishtail Palm

Chamaerops

Chamaerops

Chamaerops is a genus of flowering plants in the family Arecaceae , comprising a single species Chamaerops humilis , representative of the Pre-Pliocene paleo-tropical ancestral lineages in the area.-Distribution:It is the only palm species native to continental Europe...

– Chamaerops Palm Trees

Chamaerops humilis – Mediterranean Fan Palm

Cocos

Cocos

Cocos may refer to:* Cocos , a plant genus with the coconut as its only accepted species* Cocos Lagoon, south of Guam* Cocos Malays, an ethnic group inhabiting the Cocos Islands* Cocos Plate, a tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean...

– Cocos Palm Trees

Cocos nucifera – Coconut Palm

Dypsis

Dypsis

Dypsis is a genus of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.Species include:* Dypsis ambanjae* Dypsis ambositrae* Dypsis ampasindavae* Dypsis andrianatonga* Dypsis ankirindro* Dypsis antanambensis* Dypsis arenarum...

– Dypsis Palm Trees

Dypsis decaryi

Dypsis decaryi

Dypsis decaryi is a palm tree commonly known as the Triangle palm native to the Madagascan rainforest. It can reach 15 metres in height although it is rarely found that tall outside of its native habitat due to it being relatively new to cultivation...

– Triangle Palm

Dypsis lutescens

Dypsis lutescens

Dypsis lutescens, also known as Golden Cane Palm, Areca Palm, or Butterfly Palm, is a plant in the Arecaceae family. It is native to Madagascar.-Description:...

– Cane Palm; Yellow Palm

Howea

Howea

Howea is a genus of two palms, H. belmoreana and H. forsteriana, both endemic to Lord Howe Island, Australia. H. forsteriana in particular is commonly grown as an indoor plant in the Northern Hemisphere, and the two species form the mainstay of the island's palm seed industry and more importantly...

– Howea Palm Trees

Howea forsteriana – Kentia Palm

Hyophorbe

Hyophorbe

Hyophorbe is a genus of about five species of flowering plants in the Arecaceae family, native to the Mascarene Islands.It contains the following species:* Hyophorbe amaricaulis* Hyophorbe indica...

– Hyophorbe Palm Trees

Hyophorbe verschaffeltii

Hyophorbe verschaffeltii

Hyophorbe verschaffeltii, the Palmiste Marron, or Spindle Palm is a species of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.Spindle Palms are elegant looking palms that are prized for landscape palms in the tropical and semi-tropical areas of the world. They are fairly short palms with 8-10 leaves that...

– Spindle Palm

Jubaea

Jubaea

Jubaea chilensis is the sole extant species in the genus Jubaea in the palm family Arecaceae. It is native to southwestern South America, where it is endemic to a small area of central Chile, between 32°S and 35°S in southern Coquimbo, Valparaíso, Santiago, O'Higgins and northern Maule regions...

– Jubaea Palm Trees

Jubaea chilensis – Chilean Wine Palm

Livistona

Livistona

Livistona is a genus of 36 species of palms , native to southern and southeastern Asia, Australasia, and the Horn of Africa...

– Livistona Palm Trees

Livistona chinensis – Chinese Fan Palm

Livistona decipiens

Livistona decipiens

Livistona decipiens is a species of palm native to the sclerophyll woodlands of Queensland, Australia. The species is now widely cultivated in arid regions worldwide as a decorative plant....

– Ribbon Fan Palm
Lodoicea – Lodoicea Palms

Lodoicea maldivica – Coco de Mer Palm; Maldive Coconut; Double Coconut

Phoenix

Phoenix (plant)

Phoenix is a genus of 14 species of palms, native from the Canary Islands east across northern and central Africa, the extreme southeast of Europe , and southern Asia from Turkey east to southern China and Malaysia. The diverse habitats they occupy include swamps, deserts, and mangrove sea coasts...

– Date Palms

Phoenix canariensis – Canary Island Palm

Phoenix dactylifera – Date Palm

Phoenix reclinata

Phoenix reclinata

Phoenix reclinata or Senegal Date Palm is a species of flowering plant in the palm family native to tropical Africa, Madagascar, and the Comoro Islands. The plants are found from sea level to 3000 m, in rain forest clearings, monsoonal forests and rocky mountainsides.-Description:P...

– Senegal Date Palm

Phoenix roebelenii

Phoenix roebelenii

Phoenix roebelenii is a species of date palm native to southeastern Asia from southwestern China , northern Laos and northern Vietnam,...

– Pygmy Date Palm

Phoenix rupicola

Phoenix rupicola

Phoenix rupicola or Cliff Date Palm is a species of flowering plant in the Palm family, native to the mountainous forests of India and Bhutan from 300 to 1200 m, usually occurring on cliffs, hillsides and similar terrain...

– Cliff Date Palm
Phytelephas

Phytelephas

Phytelephas is a genus containing six species of palms , occurring from southern Panama along the Andes to Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru. They are commonly known as ivory palms, ivory-nut palms or tagua palms; their scientific name means "plant elephant"...

– Ivory Palms

Phytelephas aequatorialis

Phytelephas aequatorialis

The palm tree Phytelephas aequatorialis, commonly known as Ecuadorean Ivory Palm, is the main source of Ecuadorean vegetable ivory or tagua, a botanical alternative to ivory. This palm is found in the tropical rainforests of Ecuador...

– Ivory Nut Palm

Phytelephas macrocarpa – Tagua Palm

Raphia – Raphia Palm Trees

Raphia farinifera – Raffia Palm

Ravenea

Ravenea

Ravenea is a genus of 17 species of palms, all endemic to Madagascar and the Comoros.They are small to large palms, with solitary, robust grey stems, swollen at base and gradually tapering upward. The species vary greatly in size, with R. hildebrandtii and R. nana only reaching 4 m, while R....

– Ravenea Palm Trees

Ravenea rivularis

Ravenea rivularis

Ravenea rivularis is a species of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.It is found only in Madagascar.The extremely elegant, fast-growing majesty palm has upward-arching leaves that are divided into long, thin fingers. It makes a fine conservatory feature plant, but make sure the roof is high...

– Majesty Palm

Rhapis

Rhapis

Rhapis is a genus of about 10 species of small palms native to southeastern Asia from southern Japan and southern China south to Thailand. The species are commonly known as Lady Palms....

– Rhapis Palm Trees

Rhapis excelsa

Rhapis excelsa

Rhapis excelsa also known as Broadleaf Lady Palm or Bamboo Palm is a species of fan palm in the genus Rhapis, probably native to southern China and Taiwan. It is not known in the wild; all known plants come from cultivated groups in China...

– Lady Palm

Rhapis humilis – Slender Lady Palm

Rhopalostylis

Rhopalostylis

Rhopalostylis is a genus of two species of palms native to the South Pacific. Both are smooth-trunked, with regular ringed scars from fallen leaves. The leaves are 3–5 metres in length, and the leaf bases encircle the trunk.-Distribution:R...

– Rhopalostylis Palm Trees

Rhopalostylis baueri

Rhopalostylis baueri

Rhopalostylis baueri is a species of palm native to Norfolk Island and to the Kermadec Islands . Norfolk Island is the type locality. The common names on Norfolk Island are 'Norfolk Island Palm' or 'Niau'...

– Norfolk Island Palm

Rhopalostylis sapida – Nikau Palm
Roystonea

Roystonea

Roystonea is a genus of eleven species of monoecious palms, native to the Caribbean Islands, and the adjacent coasts of Florida, Central and South America. Commonly known as the royal palms, the genus was named for Roy Stone, a U.S. Army engineer...

– Royal Palms

Roystonea elata – Florida Royal Palm

Roystonea regia

Roystonea regia

Roystonea regia, commonly known as the Cuban royal palm, Florida royal palm, or simply the royal palm is a species of palm which is native to southern Florida, Mexico and parts of Central America and the northern Caribbean. It ranged into central Florida in the eighteenth century but in modern...

– Cuban Royal Palm

Sabal

Sabal

Sabal is a genus of New World palms, many of the species being known as palmetto. They are fan palms , with the leaves with a bare petiole terminating in a rounded fan of numerous leaflets; in some of the species, the leaflets are joined for up to half of their length...

– Sabal Palmettos

Sabal causiarum

Sabal causiarum

Sabal causiarum, commonly known as the Puerto Rican hat palm, is a species of palm which is native to Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands...

– Puerto Rican Hat Palm

Sabal palmetto

Sabal palmetto

Sabal palmetto, also known as cabbage palm, palmetto, cabbage palmetto, palmetto palm, blue palmetto, Carolina palmetto, common palmetto, swamp cabbage and sabal palm, is one of 15 species of palmetto palm . It is native to the southeastern United States, Cuba, and the Bahamas...

– Cabbage Palmetto

Sabal rosei – Llanos Palmetto

Sabal uresana

Sabal uresana

Sabal uresana, commonly known as the Sonoran Palmetto, is a species of palm tree that is native to the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental in northwestern Mexico . The specific epithet, "uresana", refers to Ures, Sonora, a town within its range. It is threatened by habitat loss....

– Sonoran Palmetto

Serenoa – Serenoa Palm Trees

Serenoa repens – Saw Palmetto

Syagrus

Syagrus

Syagrus is a genus of 30 to 42 species of Arecaceae , native to South America, with one species endemic to the Lesser Antilles. The genus is closely related to the Cocos, or coconut genus, and many Syagrus species produce edible seeds similar to the coconut.-Description:Palms in this group have...

– Syagrus Palm Trees

Syagrus romanzoffianum – Queen Palm

Trachycarpus

Trachycarpus

Trachycarpus is a genus of ten species of palms native to Asia, from the Himalaya east to eastern China. They are fan palms , with the leaves with a bare petiole terminating in a rounded fan of numerous leaflets. The leaf bases produce persistent fibers that often give the trunk a characteristic...

– Fan Palm Trees

Trachycarpus fortunei

Trachycarpus fortunei

Trachycarpus fortunei is a palm native to central China , south to northern Burma. It is a fan palm Trachycarpus fortunei (Chusan Palm, Windmill Palm or Chinese Windmill Palm; syn. Chamaerops fortunei Hook., T. wagnerianus Becc.) is a palm native to central China (Hubei southwards), south to...

– Chinese Windmill Palm

Washingtonia

Washingtonia

Washingtonia is a genus of palms, native to the southwestern United States and northwest Mexico...

– Washingtonia Palm Trees

Washingtonia filifera

Washingtonia filifera

Washingtonia filifera , with the common names California Fan Palm , Desert Fan Palm, Cotton palm, and Arizona Fan Palm. It is a palm native to southwestern North America between an elevation range of , at seeps, desert bajadas, and springs where underground water is continuously available...

– California Fan Palm

Washingtonia robusta

Washingtonia robusta

Washingtonia robusta is a palm tree native to western Sonora and Baja California Sur in northwestern Mexico. It grows to tall, rarely up to . The leaves have a petiole up to long, and a palmate fan of leaflets up to 1 m long. The inflorescence is up to long, with numerous small pale orange-pink...

– Mexican Fan Palm

Wodyetia

Wodyetia

The Foxtail Palm is a species of flowering plant in the Arecaceae familyThe Palm and Cycads Societies of Australia describes this Palm as follows:...

– Wodyetia Palm Trees

Wodyetia bifurcata – Foxtail Palm

Asphodelaceae

Asphodelaceae

Asphodeloideae is a subfamily of the monocot family Xanthorrhoeaceae in the order Asparagales. It has previously been treated as a separate family, Asphodelaceae. The subfamily name is derived from the generic name of the type genus, Asphodelus...

: The Asphodel Family

Aloe

Aloe

Aloe , also Aloë, is a genus containing about 500 species of flowering succulent plants. The most common and well known of these is Aloe vera, or "true aloe"....

– Aloe Plants and Trees

Aloe bainesii

Aloe bainesii

Aloe barberae , also known as Tree aloe, is a species of aloe native to South Africa. In its native climes this slow-growing tree can reach up to 18 m high and 0.9 m in stem diameter. Aloe barberae is Africa's largest aloe. The tree aloe is often used as an ornamental plant...

– Giant Tree Aloe

Aloe dichotoma

Aloe dichotoma

Aloe dichotoma, also known as Quiver tree or Kokerboom, is a species of aloe indigenous to Southern Africa, specifically in the Northern Cape region, and Namibia....

– Quiver Tree

Asteraceae

Asteraceae

The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...

: The Composite Family

Baccharis

Baccharis

Baccharis is a genus of perennials and shrubs in the aster family . They are commonly known as baccharises but sometimes referred to as "brooms", because many members have small thin leaves resembling the true brooms. They are not at all related to these however, but belong to an entirely...

– Baccharis Trees

Baccharis halimifolia

Baccharis halimifolia

Baccharis halimifolia is a fall-flowering deciduous or evergreen shrub commonly found in wetlands on the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains of the eastern United States from Texas and Florida northward to Massachusetts, inland to the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania...

– Eastern Baccharis; Groundsel Tree; Silverling

Berberidaceae

Berberidaceae

Berberidaceae are a family of 15 genera flowering plants commonly called the barberry family. This family is in the order Ranunculales. The family contains about 570 species, of which the majority are in Berberis...

: The Barberry Family

Nandina

Nandina

-Description:Nandina domestica commonly known as nandina, heavenly bamboo or sacred bamboo, is a suckering shrub in the Barberry family, Berberidaceae. It is a monotypic genus, with this species as its only member. It is native to eastern Asia from the Himalaya east to Japan.Despite the common...

– Nandina Shrubs

Nandina domestica – Heavenly Bamboo; Sacred Bamboo

Betulaceae

Betulaceae

Betulaceae, or the Birch Family, includes six genera of deciduous nut-bearing trees and shrubs, including the birches, alders, hazels, hornbeams and hop-hornbeams, numbering about 130 species...

: The Birch Family

Alnus – Alders

Alnus acuminata

Alnus acuminata

Alnus acuminata Alnus acuminata Alnus acuminata (also called Alder is a species of tree in the Betulaceae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Venezuela.-References:...

– Andean Alder

Alnus cordata – Italian Alder

Alnus cremastogyne – Long Peduncled Alder

Alnus formosana – Formosan Alder; Formosa Alder

Alnus fruticosa – Siberian Alder

Alnus glutinosa – European Alder

Alnus incana – Gray Alder

Alnus japonica – Japanese Alder

Alnus jorullensis – Mexican Alder

Alnus maritima

Alnus maritima

Alnus maritima is a species of plant in the Betulaceae family. Alnus maritima is endemic to the United States, and is found naturally in three disjunct populations in Oklahoma, Georgia, and in Maryland and Delaware on the Delmarva Peninsula...

– Seaside Alder

Alnus nepalensis – Nepalese Alder

Alnus nitida – Himalayan Alder

Alnus oblongifolia

Alnus oblongifolia

Alnus oblongifolia is a large alder, birch-family tree up to 72ft, from the southwestern United States and northern Sonora Mexico. It grows across Arizona into western New Mexico mountain ranges...

– Arizona Alder

Alnus orientalis – Oriental Alder; Syrian Alder

Alnus rhombifolia

Alnus rhombifolia

Alnus rhombifolia, the White Alder, is an alder tree native to western North America, from Washington east to western Montana, southeast to the Sierra Nevada, and south through the Peninsular Ranges and Colorado Desert oases in Southern California. It occurs in riparian zone habitats at an...

– White Alder

Alnus rubra – Red Alder

Alnus rugosa – Speckled Alder

Alnus serrulata

Alnus serrulata

Alnus serrulata, the hazel alder,or smooth alder is a thicket-forming shrub in the family Betulaceae. It is native to eastern North America and can be found found from western Nova Scotia and southern New Brunswick south to Florida and Texas....

– Common Alder; Hazel Alder; Tag Alder; Smooth Alder

Alnus sinuata – Sitka Alder

Alnus subcordata – Caucasian Alder

Alnus tenuifolia – Mountain Alder; Thin-leaf Alder

Alnus viridis – Green Alder

Betula – Birches

Betula albosinensis – Chinese White Birch; Chinese Red Birch

Betula alleghaniensis – Yellow Birch

Betula alnoides – Alder-leaf Birch

Betula austrosinensis – South China Birch

Betula chinensis – Chinese Dwarf Birch

Betula cordifolia

Betula cordifolia

Betula cordifolia is a birch species native to Eastern Canada and the North Eastern United States. Until recently it was considered a variety of Betula papyrifera , with which it shares many characteristics, and it was classified as B...

– Mountain Paper Birch; Heartleaf Birch

Betula ermanii

Betula ermanii

Betula ermanii, or Erman's Birch, is a tree species belonging to the family Betulaceae. It is an extremely variable species and can be found in Japan, Kuriles, Sakhalin, Kamchatka, and Korea. It can grow to be 20 m tall...

– Erman’s Birch

Betula glandulosa – American Dwarf Birch

Betula grossa – Japanese Cherry Birch

Betula jacquemontii – White-barked Himalayan Birch

Betula kenaica – Kenai Birch

Betula lenta – Sweet Birch; Cherry Birch; Black Birch

Betula mandschurica – Manchurian Birch

Betula maximowiczii – Monarch Birch

Betula medwediewii – Caucasian Birch

Betula michauxii – Newfoundland Dwarf Birch

Betula nana – Dwarf Birch; Bog Birch

Betula neoalaskana – Alaska Birch; Yukon Birch

Betula nigra – River Birch

Betula occidentalis

Betula occidentalis

Betula occidentalis is a species of birch native to western North America, in Canada from Yukon east to western Ontario and southwards, and in the United States from eastern Washington east to western North Dakota, and south to eastern California, northern Arizona and northern New Mexico, and also...

– Water Birch; Western Birch; Red Birch

Betula papyrifera – Paper Birch; Canoe Birch; American White Birch

Betula pendula – Silver Birch; Weeping Birch

Betula platyphylla

Betula platyphylla

Betula platyphylla, or the Japanese White Birch, is a tree species belonging to the genus Betula. It can be found in temperate or subarctic places of Asia: Japan, China, Korea, and Siberia. The Japanese White Birch can grow to be 20 m to 30 m tall.-References:...

– Siberian Silver Birch

Betula populifolia – Gray Birch

Betula pubescens – White Birch; European White Birch; Hairy Birch; Downy Birch

Betula pumila – Swamp Birch

Betula szechuanica

Betula szechuanica

Betula szechuanica is a birch species native to Sichuan, China, conical in shape, growing to 20 meters in height, with white bark, yellow-green male catkins or green female catkins, and dark, blue-green leaves.- Synonyms :* Betula platyphylla var. szechuanica* Betula mandshurica var. szechuanica*...

– Sichuan Birch

Betula uber

Betula uber

Betula uber is a rare species of tree in the birch family. One of the most endangered species of North American trees, it is endemic to Smyth County, in the U.S. state of Virginia...

– Ashe’s Birch; Virginia Birch; Roundleaf Birch

Betula utilis

Betula utilis

Betula utilis is a Birch tree native to the Himalayas, growing at elevations up to . The specific epithet, utilis, refers to the many uses of the different parts of the tree. The white, paper-like bark of the tree was used in ancient times for writing Sanskrit scriptures and texts...

– Himalayan Birch

Betula x caerulea – Blue Birch; Blueleaf Birch

Carpinus – Hornbeams

Carpinus betulus – European Hornbeam

Carpinus caroliniana – American Hornbeam

Corylus – Hazels

Corylus americana

Corylus americana

Corylus americana, the American Hazelnut, is a species of the genus Corylus that is native to eastern North America.It is a medium to large shrub that under some conditions can take the form of a small tree...

– American Hazel; American Hazelnut

Corylus avellana

Corylus avellana

Corylus avellana, the Common Hazel, is a species of hazel native to Europe and western Asia, from the British Isles south to Iberia, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, north to central Scandinavia, and east to the central Ural Mountains, the Caucasus, and northwestern Iran. It is an important component of...

– Common Hazelnut

Corylus colurna – Turkish Hazel

Corylus cornuta – Beaked Hazel; Beaked Hazelnut

Corylus maxima – European filbert
Ostrya

Ostrya

Ostrya is a genus of eight to ten small deciduous trees belonging to the birch family Betulaceae. Its common name is Hophornbeam in American English and Hop-hornbeam in British English. It may also be called ironwood, a name shared with a number of other plants.The genus is native in southern...

– False Hornbeams

Ostrya virginiana

Ostrya virginiana

Ostrya virginiana , is a species of Ostrya native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southern Manitoba and eastern Wyoming, southeast to northern Florida and southwest to eastern Texas and northeastern Mexico...

– Hop Hornbeam; Ironwood

Bignoniaceae

Bignoniaceae

The Bignoniaceae, or Trumpet Creeper Family, is a family of flowering plants comprising about 650-750 species in 116-120 genera. Members of the family are mostly trees and lianas , shrubs and more rarely herbaceous plants. As climber plants, they are twine climbers or tendril climbers, and rarely...

: The Trumpet Creeper Family

Amphitecna

Amphitecna

Amphitecna is a genus of plant in family Bignoniaceae.Species include:* Amphitecna isthmica, A.Gentry* Amphitecna macrophylla — "Bigleaf Black Calabash"* Amphitecna molinae, L.O.Williams...

– Calabash

Amphitecna latifolia – Black Calabash

Catalpa

Catalpa

Catalpa, commonly called catalpa or catawba, is a genus of flowering plants in the trumpet vine family, Bignoniaceae, native to warm temperate regions of North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia....

– Catalpa Trees

Catalpa bignonioides – Southern Catalpa

Catalpa speciosa – Northern Catalpa

Jacaranda

Jacaranda

Jacaranda is a genus of 49 species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of South America , Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. It is also found in Asia, especially in Nepal...

– Jacaranda Trees

Jacaranda mimosifolia – Blue Jacaranda; Black Poui

Kigelia

Kigelia

Kigelia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae. The genus comprises only one species, Kigelia africana, which occurs throughout tropical Africa from Eritrea and Chad south to northern South Africa, and west to Senegal and Namibia.-Etymology:The genus name comes from the...

– Sausage Trees

Kigelia africana – African Sausage Tree

Markhamia – Markhamia Trees

Markhamia lutea – Markhamia; Nile Tulip Tree; Siala

Paulownia

Paulownia

Paulownia is a genus of from 6 to 17 species of plants in the monogeneric family Paulowniaceae, related to and sometimes included in the Scrophulariaceae. They are native to much of China, south to northern Laos and Vietnam, and long cultivated elsewhere in eastern Asia, notably in Japan and Korea...

– Paulownia Trees

Paulownia tomentosa

Paulownia tomentosa

Paulownia tomentosa is a deciduous tree in the genus Paulownia, native to central and western China, but invasive in the US...

– Empress Tree; Princess Tree; Foxglove Tree; Paulownia

Radermachera

Radermachera

Radermachera is a genus of 15-16 species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to southeastern Asia. They are evergreen trees reaching 5-40 m tall, with bipinnate or tripinnate leaves, and panicles of large bell-shaped, white, pink, pale purple or yellow flowers 5-7 cm diameter.The...

– Radermachera Trees

Radermachera sinica

Radermachera sinica

Radermachera sinica is an evergreen tree in the family Bignoniaceae, native to the subtropical mountain regions of southern China and Taiwan. It can reach heights of up to 30 m tall and a trunk diameter of 1 m...

– China Doll Tree; Serpent Tree

Spathodea

Spathodea

Spathodea is a monotypic genus in the flowering plant family Bignoniaceae. The single species it contains, Spathodea campanulata, is commonly known as the Fountain Tree, African Tulip Tree, Flame-of-the-forest, Rudra Palash, Pichkari or Nandi Flame. It is a tree that grows between tall and is...

– Spathodea Trees

Spathodea campanulata – African Tulip Tree

Tabebuia

Tabebuia

Tabebuia is a neotropical genus of about 100 species in the tribe Tecomeae of the family Bignoniaceae. The species range from northern Mexico and southern Florida south to northern Argentina, including the Caribbean islands of Hispaniola and Cuba...

– Trumpet Trees

Tabebuia caraiba – Yellow Tabebuia

Tabebuia chrysantha

Tabebuia chrysantha

Tabebuia chrysantha , known as cañaguate in northern Colombia , as tajibo in Bolivia, and as ipê-amarelo in Brazil, is a native tree of the intertropical broadleaf deciduous forests of South America above the Tropic of Capricorn...

– Golden Trumpet

Tabebuia chrysotricha

Tabebuia chrysotricha

Tabebuia chrysotricha , commonly known as Golden Trumpet Tree, is an evergreen tree from Brazil. It is very similar to and often confused with Tabebuia ochracea. In Portuguese it is called "Ipê amarelo" and is considered the national tree of Brazil.-Growth:T...

– Golden Trumpet

Tabebuia heterophylla – Pink Trumpet Tree

Tabebuia impetiginosa

Tabebuia impetiginosa

Tabebuia impetiginosa, Pink Ipê or Pink Lapacho is a native Bignoniaceae tree of America, distributed from northern Mexico south to northern Argentina. It is a common tree in Argentina's northeastern region, as well as in southeastern Bolivia. It is said to be indigenous to Trinidad and Tobago.It...

– Purple Tabebuia; Purple Trumpet Tree

Tabebuia rosea

Tabebuia rosea

Tabebuia rosea is a neotropical tree that grows up to and can reach a diameter at breast height of up to . The name Roble de Sabana is widely used in Costa Rica meaning "savannah oak" in Spanish, probably because it often remains in heavily deforested areas, where people prize its intense...

– Rosy Trumpet Tree

Tabebuia roseo-alba

Tabebuia roseo-alba

Tabebuia roseo-alba, known as White Ipê, ipê-branco or lapacho blanco, is a tree native to Cerrado and Pantanal vegetation in Brazil, but also appears in Argentina Tabebuia roseo-alba, known as White Ipê, ipê-branco or lapacho blanco, is a tree native to Cerrado and Pantanal vegetation in Brazil,...

– Ipê-branco; Lapacho Blanco

Tecoma – Tecoma Trees

Tecoma stans

Tecoma stans

Tecoma stans is a species of flowering perennial shrub in the trumpet vine family, Bignoniaceae, that is native to the Americas. Common names include Yellow Trumpetbush, Yellow Bells , Yellow Elder, Ginger-thomas, and Esperanza...

– Yellow Elder; Yellow Bells

Bombacaceae

Bombacaceae

Bombacaceae is a family of flowering plants or Angiospermae included within Malvales order. As is true for any botanical name, circumscription and status of the taxon has varied with taxonomic point of view...

: The Bombax Family

Adansonia

Adansonia

Adansonia is a genus of eight species of tree, six native to Madagascar, one native to mainland Africa and the Arabian Peninsula and one to Australia. The mainland African species also occurs on Madagascar, but it is not a native of that island....

– Baobab Trees

Adansonia digitata

Adansonia digitata

Adansonia digitata is the most widespread of the Adansonia species on the African continent, found in the hot, dry savannahs of sub-Saharan Africa. It also grows, having spread secondary to cultivation, in populated areas...

– African Baobab; Monkeybread Tree

Adansonia grandidieri

Adansonia grandidieri

Adansonia grandidieri , the biggest and most famous of Madagascar’s six baobabs, is an endangered species in the genus Adansonia. It is endemic to Madagascar. A...

– Grandidier’s Baobab

Adansonia gregorii – Boab; Australian Baobab

Adansonia madagascariensis

Adansonia madagascariensis

Adansonia madagascariensis is one of six species of baobab endemic to Madagascar, where it occurs in the Madagascar dry deciduous forests....

– Madagascar Baobab

Adansonia perrieri

Adansonia perrieri

Adansonia perrieri is an endangered species in the genus Adansonia. This species is endemic to Madagascar....

– Perrier’s Baobab

Adansonia rubrostipa

Adansonia rubrostipa

Adansonia rubrostipa, commonly known as Fony Baobab is one of the eight species within the baobab genus, within the family Malvaceae. This tree is endemic to western Madagascar and occurs in the Madagascar dry deciduous forests....

– Fony Baobab

Adansonia suarezensis

Adansonia suarezensis

Adansonia suarezensis is an endangered species in the genus Adansonia. It is endemic to Madagascar....

– Suarez Baobab

Adansonia za

Adansonia za

Adansonia za, common name Baobab, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Adansonia belonging to the Malvaceae family.-Description:...

– Za Baobab

Bombax

Bombax

Bombax is a genus of mainly tropical trees in the mallow family. They are native to western Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, as well as sub-tropical regions of East Asia and northern Australia. Common names for the genus include Silk Cotton Tree, Simal, Red Cotton Tree, Kapok and...

– Bombax Trees

Bombax buonopozense

Bombax buonopozense

Bombax buonopozense, commonly known as the Gold Coast Bombax or Red-flowered Silk Cotton Tree, is a tree in the mallow family. It is also known in the Dagbani language as Vabga ....

– Gold Coast Bombax; Red-flowered Silk Cotton Tree

Bombax ceiba

Bombax ceiba

Bombax ceiba, like other trees of the genus Bombax, is commonly known as cotton tree or tree cotton. This tropical tree has a straight tall trunk and its leaves are deciduous in winter. Red flowers with 5 petals appear in the spring before the new foliage. It produces a capsule which, when ripe,...

– Cotton Tree; Tree Cotton

Ceiba

Ceiba

Ceiba is the name of a genus of many species of large trees found in tropical areas, including Mexico, Central America, South America, The Bahamas, Belize and the Caribbean, West Africa, and Southeast Asia...

– Ceiba Trees

Ceiba pentandra – Kapok Tree; Ceiba

Ceiba speciosa – Floss Silk Tree

Durio – Durians

Durio kutejensis

Durio kutejensis

Durio kutejensis, commonly known as durian pulu, durian merah, nyekak, or lai, is a primary rainforest substorey fruit tree from Borneo. It is a very attractive small- to medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall. It has large, glossy leaves, numerous large red flowers that emit a strong carrion smell...

– Durian Pulu; Durian Merah; Nyekak; Lai

Durio zibethinus – Durian; Civet Fruit

Ochroma – Ochroma Trees

Ochroma pyramidale – Balsa

Boraginaceae

Boraginaceae

Boraginaceae, the Borage or Forget-me-not family, include a variety of shrubs, trees, and herbs, totaling about 2,000 species in 146 genera found worldwide.A number of familiar plants belong to this family....

: The Borage Family

Bourreria

Bourreria

Bourreria is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae. Members of the genus are commonly known as strongbark or strongback. The generic name was chosen by Patrick Browne to honour German pharmacist Johann Ambrosius Beurer.-Selected species:* Bourreria baccata Raf.* Bourreria...

– Strongbarks

Bourreria ovata – Bahamian Strongbark

Bourreria radula – Rough Strongbark

Cordia

Cordia

Cordia is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae. It contains about 300 species of shrubs and trees, which are found worldwide mostly in warmer regions. Many of the species are commonly called manjack, while bocote may refer to several Central American species in Spanish...

– Cordia Trees

Cordia alliodora – Capa Prieto

Burseraceae

Burseraceae

Burseraceae is a moderate-sized family of 17-18 genera and about 540 species of flowering plants. The actual numbers differ according to the time period in which a given source is written describing this family. The Burseraceae is also known as the Torchwood family, the frankincense and myrrh...

: The Bursera Family

Bursera

Bursera

Bursera, named after the Danish botanist Joachim Burser is a genus with about 100 described species of flowering shrubs and trees varying in size upwards to 25 m. high...

– Bursera Trees

Bursera simaruba

Bursera simaruba

Bursera simaruba, commonly known as the Gumbo-limbo, is a tree species in the family Burseraceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas from the southeasternmost United States south through Mexico and the Caribbean to Brazil and Venezuela...

– Gumbo-limbo, West Indian Birch, Tourist Tree

Dacryodes

Dacryodes

Dacryodes is a tree genus in the family Burseraceae. Species include:*Dacryodes costata*Dacryodes edulis*Dacryodes excelsa*Dacryodes peruviana...

– Dacryodes Trees

Dacryodes excelsa

Dacryodes excelsa

Dacryodes excelsa is a tree of the Caribbean region. Its vernacular names include tabonuco, gommier, and candlewood....

– Tabonuco

Buxaceae

Buxaceae

Buxaceae are a small family of four or five genera and about 90-120 species of flowering plants. They are shrubs and small trees, with a cosmopolitan distribution...

: The Box Family

Buxus

Buxus

Buxus is a genus of about 70 species in the family Buxaceae. Common names include box or boxwood ....

– Box Shrubs

Buxus austro-yunnanensis – Yunnan Box

Buxus balearica – Balearic Box

Buxus colchica

Buxus colchica

Buxus colchica is a species of Buxus native to Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, and Turkey. It is threatened by habitat loss....

– Georgian Box

Buxus hainanensis – Hainan Box

Buxus harlandii – Harland’s Box

Buxus henryi – Henry’s Box

Buxus humbertii – Humbert’s Box

Buxus hyrcana – Caspian Box

Buxus macowanii – Cape Box

Buxus madagascarica – Madagascan Box

Buxus microphylla

Buxus microphylla

Buxus microphylla is a species of Buxus native to Japan and Taiwan.It is an evergreen shrub or small tree growing to 2–3 m tall...

– Japanese Box

Buxus natalensis – Natal Box

Buxus sempervirens

Buxus sempervirens

Buxus sempervirens is a flowering plant in the genus Buxus, native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and southwest Asia, from southern England south to northern Morocco, and east through the northern Mediterranean region to Turkey. Buxus colchica of western Caucasus and B...

– Common Box; European Box

Buxus sinica – Chinese Box

Buxus vahlii

Buxus vahlii

Buxus vahlii is a rare species of plant in the boxwood family. It is native to Puerto Rico and St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where it is known from no more than four populations total. It has probably never been very common, but its distribution has been reduced by deforestation and other...

– Vahl’s Box; Smooth Box

Buxus wallichiana – Himalayan Box

Canellaceae

Canellaceae

The Canellaceae are a family of flowering plants. The family has sixteen species in six genera. The species are highly aromatic evergreen plants, mostly trees and rarely shrubs, which produce essential oils...

: The Wild Cinnamon Family

Canella

Canella

Canella is a monospecific genus containing the species Canella winterana, a tree native to the Caribbean from the Florida Keys to Barbados...

– Wild Cinnamon

Canella winterana – Pepper Cinnamon; Cinnamonbark; Winter Cinnamon

Cannabaceae

Cannabaceae

Cannabaceae are a small family of flowering plants. As now circumscribed, the family includes about 170 species grouped in about 11 genera, including Cannabis , Humulus and Celtis...

: The Hemp Family

Celtis – Hackberries and Sugarberries

Celtis aetnensis – Sicilian Hackberry; Mt. Etna Hackberry

Celtis africana

Celtis africana

Celtis africana is a tree in the Cannabaceae family. This is a common and widespread forest tree from South Africa to Ethiopia. It is a fast growing and popular garden tree in South Africa and is easily propagated....

– White Stinkwood

Celtis australis

Celtis australis

Celtis australis, commonly known as the European nettle tree, Mediterranean hackberry, lote tree, or honeyberry, is a deciduous tree that can grow 20 or 25 meters in height....

– European Hackberry, European Nettle Tree, Lote tree

Celtis bungeana – Bunge’s Hackberry

Celtis caucasica – Caucasian Hackberry

Celtis integrifolia – African Hackberry

Celtis japonica – Pseudo-hackberry, Nakai; Paeng-na-mu

Celtis jessoensis – Japanese Hackberry

Celtis koraiensis – Korean Hackberry

Celtis labilis – Hubei Hackberry

Celtis laevigata

Celtis laevigata

Celtis laevigata is a medium-sized tree native to North America. Common names include Sugarberry, Southern Hackberry, or in the southern U.S. Sugar Hackberry or just Hackberry....

– Southern Hackberry, Sugar Hackberry, Sugarberry

Celtis laevigata

Celtis laevigata

Celtis laevigata is a medium-sized tree native to North America. Common names include Sugarberry, Southern Hackberry, or in the southern U.S. Sugar Hackberry or just Hackberry....

– Sugarberry

Celtis lindheimeri

Celtis lindheimeri

Celtis lindheimeri is a species of plant in the Cannabaceae family. It is found in Mexico and the United States.-References:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....

– Lindheimer Hackberry

Celtis occidentalis

Celtis occidentalis

Celtis occidentalis, commonly known as the Common hackberry, is a medium-size deciduous tree native to North America. It is also known as the nettletree, beaverwood, northern hackberry, and American hackberry...

– Common Hackberry, Northern Hackberry, False Elm

Celtis pallida – Spiny Hackberry; Granjeno

Celtis reticulata

Celtis reticulata

Celtis reticulata, with common names including Netleaf Hackberry, Western Hackberry, Douglas Hackberry, Netleaf Sugar Hackberry, Palo Blanco, Acibuche, is a small to medium size deciduous tree, native to western North America.-Prehistoric:Celtis reticulata was one of the species analyzed in a...

– Net-leaved Hackberry

Celtis sinensis

Celtis sinensis

Celtis sinensis is a species of flowering plant in the hemp family, Cannabaceae, that is native to slopes in East Asia.- Description :...

– Chinese Hackberry

Celtis tala

Celtis tala

Celtis tala, known as Tala, is a medium size deciduous tree, native to tropical and subtropical South America. With small to medium sized spines, its one of the main components of the Gran Chaco pairies and certain areas of the argentinian pampa....

– Tala

Celtis tenuifolia

Celtis tenuifolia

Celtis tenuifolia, the Dwarf Hackberry or Georgia Hackberry is a shrub or small tree 2 to 12 meters high. It is native to eastern North America, but is very uncommon north of the Ohio River...

– Dwarf Hackberry; Georgia Hackberry

Celtis tournefortii – Oriental Hackberry

Trema

Trema

Trema is a genus of about 15 species of evergreen trees closely related to the hackberries , occurring in subtropical and tropical regions of southern Asia, northern Australasia, Africa, South and Central America, and parts of North America...

– Tremas

Trema micrantha – Florida Trema

Trema orientalis

Trema orientalis

Trema orientalis is a species of flowering tree in the hemp family, Cannabaceae. It is known by many common names, including charcoal-tree, Indian charcoal-tree, pigeon wood, and in Hawaii, where it has become naturalized gunpowder tree, or nalita...

– Oriental Trema; Nalita

Capparidaceae: The Caper Family

Capparis

Capparis

Capparis is a flowering plant genus in the family Capparaceae which is included in the Brassicaceae in the unrevised APG II system. These plants are shrubs or lianas and are collectively known as caper shrubs or caperbushes...

– Caper Bushes

Capparis cynophallophora

Capparis cynophallophora

Capparis cyanophallophora, commonly known as the Jamaican Caper, is small tree in the caper family, Capparaceae, that is native to the neotropics.-Description:...

– Jamaican Caper

Capparis flexuosa – Limber Caper

Capparis spinosa – Caperbush; Caper Bud; Caper Berry; Prickly Caper

Caprifoliaceae

Caprifoliaceae

The Caprifoliaceae or honeysuckle family is a clade consisting of about 800 dicotyledonous flowering plants, with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution; centres of diversity are found in eastern North America and eastern Asia, while they are absent in tropical and southern Africa.They are mostly...

: The Honeysuckle Family

Sambucus – Elders

Sambucus caerulea – Blue Berry Elder

Sambucus callicarpa – Pacific Red Berry Elder

Sambucus canadencsis – American Elder; Common Elderberry

Sambucus melanocarpa – Black Berry Elder

Sambucus pubens – Eastern Red Berry Elder

Viburnum

Viburnum

Viburnum is a genus of about 150–175 species of shrubs or small trees in the moschatel family, Adoxaceae. Its current classification is based on molecular phylogeny...

– Viburnums and Blackhaws

Viburnum burejaeticum – Manchurian Viburnum

Viburnum cassinoides – Possumhaw; Possumhaw Viburnum

Viburnum edule

Viburnum edule

Viburnum edule, the squashberry, mooseberry, pembina, pimbina, highbush cranberry, lowbush cranberry or moosomin in Cree language, is a small shrub species.-See also:* Trees of Canada* List of Canadian plants by family C...

– Squashberry; Squashberry Viburnum

Viburnum lantana

Viburnum lantana

Viburnum lantana is a species of Viburnum, native to central, southern and western Europe , northwest Africa, and southwestern Asia. The vigorous deciduous european treelike shrub is common along waysides. It is a deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 4-5 m tall...

– Wayfaring Viburnum

Viburnum lentago

Viburnum lentago

Viburnum lentago is a species of Viburnum native to the northeastern and midwestern United States, and in southern Canada from New Brunswick west to southeastern Saskatchewan. Isolated populations are found in the Dakotas, Wyoming, Colorado, and the Appalachian Mountains as far south as Kentucky...

– Nannyberry

Viburnum nudum

Viburnum nudum

Viburnum nudum is a plant in the muskroot family, Adoxaceae.-Description:...

– Naked Possumhaw; Naked Possumhaw Viburnum

Viburnum obovatum – Small-leaf Viburnum

Viburnum opulus

Viburnum opulus

Viburnum opulus is a species of Viburnum, native to Europe and Asia. Some botanists also treat the closely related North American species Viburnum trilobum as a variety of it , or a subspecies, Viburnum opulus subsp...

– European Highbush Cranberry

Viburnum prunifolium

Viburnum prunifolium

Viburnum prunifolium , is a species of Viburnum native to southeastern North America, from Connecticut west to eastern Kansas, and south to Alabama and Texas.-Growth:It is a deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 2–9 m tall with a short crooked trunk and stout...

– Blackhaw Viburnum

Viburnum rufidulum

Viburnum rufidulum

Viburnum rufidulum, also known as the rusty blackhaw, blue haw, rusty nanny-berry, or southern black haw, is a flowering species of shrub or small tree that is common in parts of the Eastern and Central United States...

– Rusty Blackhaw; Rusty Viburnum

Viburnum suspensum – Sandankwa; Sandankwa Viburnum

Viburnum trilobum

Viburnum trilobum

Viburnum trilobum is a species of Viburnum native to northern North America, from Newfoundland west to British Columbia, south to Washington state and east to northern Virginia, with an isolated population in New Mexico...

– Highbush Cranberry; Cranberry Viburnum

Caricaceae

Caricaceae

Caricaceae are a family of flowering plants in the order Brassicales, native to tropical regions of Central and South America and Africa. They are short-lived evergreen pachycaul shrubs or small trees growing to 5-10 m tall...

: The Papaya Family

Carica

Carica

Carica is a genus of Jerry Trainor in the family Caricaceae including one species, Carica papaya, the papaya Carica is a genus of Jerry Trainor in the family Caricaceae including one species, Carica papaya, the papaya Carica is a genus of Jerry Trainor in the family Caricaceae including one...

– Papaya

Carica papaya – Papaya

Casuarinaceae

Casuarinaceae

Casuarinaceae is a family of dicotyledonous flowering plants placed in the order Fagales, consisting of 3 or 4 genera and approximately 70 species of trees and shrubs native to the Old World tropics , Australia, and the Pacific Islands...

: The Casuarina Family

Casuarina

Casuarina

Casuarina is a genus of 17 species in the family Casuarinaceae, native to Australasia, southeast Asia, and islands of the western Pacific Ocean. It was once treated as the sole genus in the family, but has been split into three genera .They are evergreen shrubs and trees growing to 35 m tall...

– Beefwoods

Casuarina cunninghamiana

Casuarina cunninghamiana

Casuarina cunninghamiana is a she-oak species of the genus Casuarina. The native range extends from Daly River in the Northern Territory, north and east in Queensland and eastern New South Wales.-Description:...

– Cunningham Beefwood

Casuarina equisetifolia

Casuarina equisetifolia

Casuarina equisetifolia is a she-oak species of the genus Casuarina. The native range extends from Burma and Vietnam throughout Malesia east to French Polynesia, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu, and south to Australia...

– Australian Pine; Horsetail Casuarina; Horsetail Tree

Casuarina glauca

Casuarina glauca

Casuarina glauca, commonly known as the swamp she-oak, is a species of Casuarina native to the east coast of Australia. It is found from central Queensland south to southern New South Wales. It has become naturalised in the Everglades in Florida where it is considered a weed.The larvae of the...

– Brazilian Beefwood

Celastraceae

Celastraceae

The Celastraceae , is a family of about 90-100 genera and 1,300 species of vines, shrubs and small trees, belonging to the order Celastrales...

: The Bittersweet Family

Crossopetalum – Crossopetalum Shrubs

Crossopetalum ilicifolium – Christmasberry; Quail Berry; Ground Holly

Crossopetalum rhacoma – Florida Crossopetalum; Maidenberry

Euonymus

Euonymus

Euonymus , often called spindle or spindle tree, is a genus of flowering plants in the staff vine family, Celastraceae. It comprises about 170–180 species of deciduous and evergreen shrubs and small trees...

– Euonymus Shrubs

Euonymus atropurpureus – Burning Bush

Euonymus europaeus – European Euonymus

Euonymus alatus

Euonymus alatus

Euonymus alatus, known variously as Winged Spindle, Winged Euonymus or Burning Bush, is a deciduous shrub native to eastern Asia, in central and northern China, Japan, and Korea. The shrub grows to 2.5 m tall , often wider than tall...

– Winged Euonymus

Euonymus fortunei

Euonymus fortunei

Euonymus fortunei, also commonly known as winter creeper or wintercreeper and Fortune's spindle is a species of Euonymus native to east Asia, including China, Korea, Philippines and Japan....

– Winter Creeper Euonymus; Fortune’s Spindle

Euonymus japonicus – Japanese Spindle Bush

Euonymus occidentalis

Euonymus occidentalis

Euonymus occidentalis is a species of spindle tree known by the common name western burning bush. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California, where it is the only member of its genus growing wild. This is a shrub or small tree reaching maximum heights of anywhere from...

– Western Spindle Bush

Gyminda

Gyminda

Gyminda is a genus of flowering plants in the staff vine family, Celastraceae.-Selected species:* Gyminda latifolia Urb.* Gyminda orbicularis Borh. & Muniz-External links:...

– False Boxwoods

Gyminda latifolia – West Indian False Boxwood

Maytenus

Maytenus

Maytenus is a genus of flowering plants in the staff vine family, Celastraceae. Members of the genus are distributed throughout Central and South America, Southeast Asia, Micronesia and Australasia, the Indian Ocean and Africa...

– Maytens

Maytenus phyllanthoides – Florida Mayten; Guttapercha Mayten; Leatherleaf

Schaefferia

Schaefferia

Schaefferia is a genus of flowering shrubs and small trees in the staff vine family, Celastraceae. The generic name honours German mycologist and clergyman Jacob Christian Schäffer . Members of the genus are found in the Neotropics. The plants are dioecious, with flowers that are unisexual by...

– Schaefferia Trees

Schaefferia frutescens

Schaefferia frutescens

Schaefferia frutescens is a species of flowering plant in the staff vine family, Celastraceae, that is native to tropical regions of the Americas, from southern Florida in the United States, south through the Caribbean to Central America and northwestern South America , and also Veracruz in Mexico...

– Florida Boxwood

Cercidiphyllaceae: The Katsura Family

Cercidiphyllum – Cercidiphyllum Trees

Cercidiphyllum japonicum

Cercidiphyllum japonicum

Cercidiphyllum japonicum, known as the Japanese Judas-tree, is a species of flowering tree in the Cercidiphyllaceae family that commonly goes by the name Katsura tree. It is native to China and Japan. The tree is deciduous and grows to 40 to 60 feet. Its leaves are round. The tree flowers in March...

– Katsura Tree

Chrysobalanaceae

Chrysobalanaceae

Chrysobalanaceae is a family of trees, shrubs and flowering plants, consisting of 17 genera and about 460 species of leptocaul that grows in the Tropics or is subtropical and common in the Americas...

: The Coco Plum Family

Chrysobalanus

Chrysobalanus

Chrysobalanus is a genus of evergreen perennial shrubs to small trees, attaining a maximum height of 25 or 30 feet native to sub-tropical and tropical climates. The plant is found in coastal areas throughout the Tropical Americas as a wild plant, and is frequently planted in gardens. It has a...

– Chrysobalanus Trees

Chrysobalanus icaco

Chrysobalanus icaco

Chrysobalanus icaco, the cocoplum, Paradise Plum and icaco , is found near sea beaches and inland throughout the tropical Americas and the Caribbean, including Cuba, southern Florida, and the Bahamas. The inland subspecies is Chrysobalanus icaco pellocarpus.-Description:Chrysobalanus icaco is a...

– Coco Plum

Maranthes

Maranthes

Maranthes is a genus of plant in family Chrysobalanaceae.Species include:* Maranthes corymbosa, Bl....

– Maranthes Shrubs

Maranthes corymbosa

Maranthes corymbosa

Maranthes corymbosa is a species of plant in the Chrysobalanaceae family. It is a tree found in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Micronesia, Panama, Singapore, the Solomon Islands, and Thailand.-References:...

– Merbatu; Sea Beam

Maranthes panamensis – Corozo; Palo de Gusano

Maranthes polyandra – Pera Morada; Mayan Pear

Clusiaceae

Clusiaceae

The Clusiaceae or Guttiferae Juss. is a family of plants formerly including about 37 genera and 1610 species of trees and shrubs, often with milky sap and fruits or capsules for seeds. It is primarily tropical...

: The St. John’s Wort Family

Clusia

Clusia

Clusia is the type genus of the family Clusiaceae. Comprising 140-150 species, it is native to tropical and subtropical America. Its species are shrubs, vines and small to medium-size trees up to 20 m tall, with evergreen foliage...

– Clusia Trees

Clusia rosea – Florida Clusia; Rose Clusia

Calophyllum

Calophyllum

Calophyllum is a flowering plant genus of around 180-200 species of tropical evergreen trees in the family Calophyllaceae. The generic name is derived from the Greek words καλος , meaning "beautiful", and φυλλον , meaning "leaf." Its members are native to Australasia, Madagascar, Eastern Africa,...

– Calophyllum

Calophyllum calaba – Maria Tree; Santa Maria Tree

Garcinia

Garcinia

Garcinia is a plant genus of the family Clusiaceae native to Asia, Australia, tropical and southern Africa, and Polynesia. The number of species is highly disputed, with various sources recognizing between 50 and about 300 taxa as specifically valid...

– Garcinia Trees

Garcinia mangostana – Mangosteen

Combretaceae

Combretaceae

Combretaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Myrtales. The family includes about 600 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas in 18 genera. The family includes the leadwood tree, Combretum imberbe. Three genera, Conocarpus, Laguncularia and Lumnitzera, grow in mangrove habitats ....

: The Combretum Family

Conocarpus

Conocarpus

Conocarpus is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the family Combretaceae, native to tropical regions of the world. One of the species is a widespread mangrove species, the other is restricted to a small area around the southern Red Sea coasts, where it grows alongside seasonal...

– Buttonwoods

Conocarpus erectus – Button Mangrove; False Mangrove; Florida Buttonwood; Grey Mangrove; Zaragoza Mangrove

Laguncularia

Laguncularia

Laguncularia is a genus of plants in the family Combretaceae, with ten species:*Laguncularia coccinea Gaudich., syn. for Lumnitzera littorea*Laguncularia glabriflora C.Presl, syn. for Laguncularia racemosa?...

– Laguncularia Trees

Laguncularia racemosa

Laguncularia racemosa

Laguncularia racemosa is a species of flowering plant in the leadwood tree family, Combretaceae...

– White Mangrove

Terminalia

Terminalia (plant)

Terminalia is a genus of large trees of the flowering plant family Combretaceae, comprising around 100 species distributed in tropical regions of the world. This genus gets it name from Latin terminus, referring to the fact that the leaves appear at the very tips of the shoots.Trees of this genus...

– Terminalia Trees

Terminalia catappa

Terminalia catappa

Terminalia catappa is a large tropical tree in the Leadwood tree family, Combretaceae. The tree has been spread widely by humans and the native range is uncertain. It has long been naturalised in a broad belt extending from Africa to Northern Australia and New Guinea through Southeast Asia and...

– Indian Almond

Cornaceae

Cornaceae

Cornaceae is a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants in the order Cornales. It contains approximately 110 species, mostly trees and shrubs, which may be deciduous or evergreen. Members of this family usually have opposite or alternate simple leaves, four- or five-parted flowers clustered in...

: The Dogwood Family

Cornus – Dogwoods

Cornus florida – Flowering Dogwood

Cornus racemosa – Gray Dogwood

Cornus alternifolia – Alternate-leaf Dogwood

Cornus nuttallii – Western Flowering Dogwood; Pacific Flowering Dogwood

Cornus mas – Cornelian Dogwood

Cornus kousa – Kousa Dogwood

Cornus drummondii

Cornus drummondii

Cornus drummondii, commonly known as the Roughleaf Dogwood, is a small deciduous tree that is native primarily to the Great Plains and Midwestern reigons of the United States. It is also found around the Mississippi River. It is uncommon in the wild, and is mostly found around forest borders...

– Roughleaf Dogwood

Cornus stolonifera – Red Osier Dogwood

Cornus asperifolia – Stiff Cornel Dogwood

Cornus stricta – Swamp Dogwood

Cyrillaceae

Cyrillaceae

Cyrillaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Ericales, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Americas. The family comprises two genera, each with a single species, Cyrilla racemiflora and Cliftonia monophylla....

: The Titi Family

Cliftonia – Cliftonia Trees

Cliftonia monophylla

Cliftonia monophylla

Cliftonia monophylla is a tree native to the United States.-External links:***...

– Buckwheat Tree; Cliftonia

Cyrilla

Cyrilla

Cyrilla racemiflora, the sole species in the genus Cyrilla, is a flowering plant in the family Cyrillaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Americas, from the southeastern United States , south through the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America to northern Brazil and...

– Cyrilla Trees

Cyrilla parvifolia – Little-leaf Cyrilla

Cyrilla racemiflora – Titi; Swamp Cyrilla

Davidsoniaceae: The Davidson’s Plum Family

Davidsonia

Davidsonia

Davidsonia is a genus containing three rainforest tree species, that are commonly known as the Davidson or Davidson's Plum. The fruits superficially resemble the European plum, but are not closely related...

– Davidson’s Plum Trees

Davidsonia jerseyana

Davidsonia jerseyana

Davidsonia jerseyana, also known as Davidson's Plum or Mullumbimby Plum, is a small, slender subtropical rainforest tree up to 10 meters high. The hairy leaves are compound and 35 - 60 cm long, with 11 - 17 leaflets. It is endemic to a restricted area of northern New South Wales on the east coast...

– Davidson’s Plum; Mullumbimby Plum

Davidsonia johnsonii

Davidsonia johnsonii

Davidsonia johnsonii, commonly known as smooth Davidson's plum, is a small tree native to rainforests of eastern Australia. The leaves are compound, glossy and hairless. It is a very rare tree in the wild, but is cultivated for its edible fruit....

– Smooth Davidson’s Plum

Davidsonia pruriens

Davidsonia pruriens

Davidsonia pruriens, also known as ooray, Davidson's plum, or Queensland Davidson's plum, is a medium sized rainforest tree of northern Queensland, Australia....

– North Queensland Davidson’s Plum

Ebenaceae

Ebenaceae

The Ebenaceae are a family of flowering plants, which includes ebony and persimmon. The family has approximately 500 species of trees and shrubs in two genera, Diospyros and Euclea. The species are mostly evergreen and native to the tropics and subtropics, with a few deciduous species native to...

: The Ebony Family

Diospyros

Diospyros

Diospyros is a genus of about 450–500 species of deciduous and evergreen trees. The majority are native to the tropics, with only a few species extending into temperate regions. They are commonly known as ebony or persimmon trees...

– Ebony and Persimmons

Diospyros digyna – Black Sapote

Diospyros ebenum

Diospyros ebenum

Diospyros ebenum is a species of tree occurring in southern India and Sri Lanka. It is best known for being one of the trees that yield ebony; the wood of this tree is called Ceylon Ebony or India Ebony, but often simply called "ebony"....

– Ebony; Indian Ebony

Diospyros kaki – Japanese Persimmon

Diospyros texana

Diospyros texana

Diospyros texana is a species of persimmon that is native to central and west Texas and southwest Oklahoma in the United States, and eastern Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas in northeastern Mexico. Common names include Texas Persimmon, Mexican Persimmon and the more ambiguous "black...

– Texas Persimmon

Diospyros virginiana

Diospyros virginiana

Diospyros virginiana, commonly called the American persimmon, common persimmon, Eastern persimmon, "'simmon" and "possumwood", is a persimmon species known by a variety of names including. It ranges from New England to Florida, and west to Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Kansas...

– American Persimmon; Eastern Persimmon

Elaeagnaceae

Elaeagnaceae

Elaeagnaceae, the oleaster family, is a plant family of the order Rosales comprising small trees and shrubs, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, south into tropical Asia and Australia. The family has 45-50 species in three genera....

: The Oleaster Family

Elaeagnus

Elaeagnus

Elaeagnus , silverberry or oleaster, is a genus of about 50–70 species of flowering plants in the family Elaeagnaceae.The vast majority of the species are native to temperate and subtropical regions of Asia. Elaeagnus triflora extends from Asia south into northeastern Australia, while E...

– Elaeagnus Trees

Elaeagnus angustifolia

Elaeagnus angustifolia

Elaeagnus angustifolia, commonly called silver berry, oleaster, Russian olive, or wild olive, is a species of Elaeagnus, native to western and central Asia, from southern Russia and Kazakhstan to Turkey and Iran...

– Oleaster; Russian Olive

Elaeagnus commutata

Elaeagnus commutata

Elaeagnus commutata , is a species of Elaeagnus native to western and boreal North America, from southern Alaska through British Columbia east to Quebec, south to Utah, and across the upper Midwestern United States to South Dakota and western Minnesota...

– Silverberry

Elaeagnus pungens – Thorny Olive; Spotted Elaeagnus; Silverthorn

Hippophae – Buckthorns

Hippophae rhamnoides

Hippophae rhamnoides

Hippophae rhamnoides, the common sea-buckthorn, is a deciduous shrub species in the genus Hippophae.Common Sea-buckthorn branches are dense, stiff, and very thorny. The leaves are a distinct pale silvery-green, lanceolate, 3-8 cm long and less than 7 mm broad. It is dioecious, with male and female...

– Sea Buckthorn

Shepherdia – Buffalo Berries

Shepherdia argentea

Shepherdia argentea

Shepherdia argentea is a species of Shepherdia, native to central North America from southern Canada south in the United States to northern California and New Mexico.It is a deciduous shrub growing to 2–6 m tall...

– Silver Buffalo Berry

Ericaceae

Ericaceae

The Ericaceae, commonly known as the heath or heather family, is a group of mostly calcifuge flowering plants. The family is large, with roughly 4000 species spread across 126 genera, making it the 14th most speciose family of flowering plants...

: The Heath Family

Arbutus

Arbutus

Arbutus is a genus of at least 14 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae, native to warm temperate regions of the Mediterranean, western Europe, and North America.-Description:...

– Arbutus Trees

Arbutus menziesii – Arbutus; Madrone

Arbutus unedo – Strawberry Tree; Unedo Strawberry Tree

Clethra

Clethra

Clethra is a genus of between 30-70 species of flowering shrubs or small trees. It is one of two genera in the family Clethraceae...

– Pepperbush

Clethra accuminata – Sweet Pepperbush; White Alder

Elliottia

Elliottia

Elliottia is a genus of plants in the Ericaceae. Although Cladothamnus, Elliottia, and Tripetaleia were long treated as distinct genera, B. A. Bohm et al. concluded that they should be merged in a single genus.-Species:...

– Elliottia Trees

Elliottia racemosa

Elliottia racemosa

Elliottia racemosa is a rarely occurring species of shrub or sometimes small tree. The shrub or tree has leaves that are three to four inches long and one to two inches wide, white flowers with four petals, and dry fruit. The species' habitat are moist stream banks to dry ridges that are usually...

– Elliottia; Southern Plum

Erica

Erica

Erica ,the heaths or heathers, is a genus of approximately 860 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The English common names "heath" and "heather" are shared by some closely related genera of similar appearance....

– Heath Trees and Shrubs

Erica arborea – Tree Heath

Kalmia

Kalmia

Kalmia is a genus of about 8 species of evergreen shrubs from 0.2–5 m tall, in the family Ericaceae. They are native to North America and Cuba. They grow in acidic soils, with different species in wet acid bog habitats and dry, sandy soils Kalmia is a genus of about 8 species of evergreen shrubs...

– Kalmia Shrubs

Kalmia latifolia

Kalmia latifolia

Kalmia latifolia, commonly called Mountain-laurel or Spoonwood, is a species of flowering plant in the blueberry family, Ericaceae, that is native to the eastern United States. Its range stretches from southern Maine south to northern Florida, and west to Indiana and Louisiana. Mountain-laurel is...

– Mountain Laurel

Lyonia

Lyonia

Lyonia is a genus name in biology:*In animals - †Lyonia Archbold, 1983 *In plants - Lyonia ...

– Lyonia Trees

Lyonia ferruginea – Tree Lyonia

Oxydendrum – Oxydendrum Trees

Oxydendrum arboreum – Sourwood

Rhododendron

Rhododendron

Rhododendron is a genus of over 1 000 species of woody plants in the heath family, most with showy flowers...

– Rhododendron Trees and Shrubs

Rhododendron albiflorum – White-flowered Rhododendron

Rhododendron calendulaceum

Rhododendron calendulaceum

Rhododendron calendulaceum , is a species of Rhododendron native to the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States, ranging from southern New York to northern Georgia....

– Flame Azalea

Rhododendron catawbiense

Rhododendron catawbiense

Rhododendron catawbiense is a species of Rhododendron native to the eastern United States, growing mainly in the Appalachian Mountains from Virginia south to northern Alabama....

– Purple Laurel; Catawba Rhododendron

Rhododendron macrophyllum

Rhododendron macrophyllum

Rhododendron macrophyllum, the Pacific Rhododendron, Coast Rhododendron or Big Leaf Rhododendron, is a broadleaf evergreen rhododendron species native to western North America.-Distribution:...

– Pacific Rhododendron

Rhododendron maximum

Rhododendron maximum

Rhododendron maximum — also called great rhododendron, great laurel, rosebay rhododendron, American rhododendron or big rhododendron — is a species of Rhododendron native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia south to northern Alabama.-Description:R. maximum is an evergreen shrub growing to 4...

– Rosebay Rhododendron; Great Rhododendron

Rhododendron occidentale

Rhododendron occidentale

Rhododendron occidentale, the Western Azalea, is one of two deciduous Rhododendron species native to western North America . The Western Azalea is known to occur as far north as Bandon, Oregon. It is found as far south as the Palomar Mountain area in southern California...

– Western Azalea; Pacific Azalea

Rhododendron periclymenoides

Rhododendron periclymenoides

Rhododendron periclymenoides, is a deciduous shrub native to the eastern United States. Flowers appear before the leaves expand. It ranges from New Hampshire to Georgia and Alabama and are relatively frequent though widely scattered along streams, in deciduous forests and woodlands. The ranges of...

– Pinxterbloom Azalea

Rhododendron ponticum

Rhododendron ponticum

Rhododendron ponticum, called Common Rhododendron or Pontic Rhododendron, is a species of Rhododendron native to southern Europe and southwest Asia.-Description:...

– Pontic Rhododendron

Vaccinium

Vaccinium

Vaccinium is a genus of shrubs or dwarf shrubs in the plant Family Ericaceae. The fruit of many species are eaten by humans and some are of commercial importance, including the cranberry, blueberry, bilberry or whortleberry, lingonberry or cowberry, and huckleberry...

– Blueberries, Cranberries, and Sparkleberries

Vaccinium arboreum

Vaccinium arboreum

Vaccinium arboreum is a species of Vaccinium native to the southeastern United States, from southern Virginia west to southeastern Nebraska, south to Florida and eastern Texas, and north to Illinois....

– Sparkleberry; Farkleberry

Vaccinium corymbosum – Highbush Blueberry

Euphorbiaceae

Euphorbiaceae

Euphorbiaceae, the Spurge family are a large family of flowering plants with 300 genera and around 7,500 species. Most are herbs, but some, especially in the tropics, are also shrubs or trees. Some are succulent and resemble cacti....

: The Spurge Family

Aleurites

Aleurites

Aleurites is a small arborescent genus of flowering plants in the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, the Pacific and South America, belonging to the spurge family Euphorbiaceae.These monoecious, evergreen trees are perennials or semi-perennials...

– Aleurites Trees

Aleurites fordii – Tung Tree

Aleurites moluccana – Candlenut

Drypetes

Drypetes

Drypetes is a plant genus of the family Putranjivaceae. It was previously put in family Euphorbiaceae, tribe Drypeteae and was the sole pantropical zoochorous genus of the family...

– Drypetes Trees

Drypetes diversifolia – Milkbark

Drypetes lateriflora – Guiana Plum

Euphorbia – Spurge Trees

Euphorbia candelabrum

Euphorbia candelabrum

Euphorbia candelabrum is a succulent species of plant in the Euphorbiaceae family. Its Latin name derives from its growth habit, often considered to resemble the branching of a candelabrum. E. candelabrum is endemic to the Horn of Africa and eastern Africa along the Great Rift Valley system...

(Euphorbia ingens

Euphorbia ingens

Euphorbia ingens is a species of plant in the genus Euphorbia and the family Euphorbiaceae. It is native to dry areas of southern Africa. It is popularly known as the "Candelabra Tree", and its milky latex can be extremely poisonous, and a dangerous irritant....

) – Candelabra Tree

Euphorbia cotinifolia – Caribbean Copper Plant

Euphorbia tetragona – Naboom

Euphorbia tirucalli

Euphorbia tirucalli

Euphorbia tirucalli is a shrub that grows in semi-arid tropical climates.It has a wide distribution in Africa, being prominently present in northeastern, central...

– Pencil Tree

Gymnanthes

Gymnanthes

Gymnanthes is a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. Members of the genus are commonly known as oysterwood. The genus has 45 species and is pantropical.-Selected species:*Gymnanthes belizensis...

– Gymnanthes Trees

Gymnanthes lucida

Gymnanthes lucida

Gymnanthes lucida, commonly known as Shiny Oysterwood, is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, that is native to southern Florida in the United States, the Bahamas, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America. It is a tree, reaching a height of ....

– Crabwood

Hevea

Hevea

Hevea is a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. It is also one of many names used commercially for the wood of the most economically important species H. brasiliensis.-Selected species:* Hevea benthamiana Müll.Arg....

– Rubber Trees

Hevea brasiliensis – Pará Rubber Tree; Rubber Tree

Hippomane – Hippomane Trees

Hippomane mancinella – Manchineel

Manihot

Manihot

Manihot is a plant genus of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. It contains around 98 species that are native to the Americas, from Arizona in the United States south to Argentina...

– Cassava

Manihot esculenta – Cassava, Manioc; Manihot

Manihot grahamii – Wild Cassava; Graham’s Cassava

Sapium

Sapium

Sapium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae, comprising about 125 species. The genus is native to the tropics, especially the Neotropics...

– Tallow Trees

Sapium sebiferum – Chinese Tallow Tree

Savia

Savia

Savia is a genus of the family Phyllanthaceae.-Synonymy:This genus is also known as:*Charidia Baill.*Geminaria Raf.*Kleinodendron L.B.Sm. & Downs*Maschalanthus Nutt....

– Maidenbushes

Savia bahamensis – Bahamian Maidenbush

Fabaceae

Fabaceae

The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, is a large and economically important family of flowering plants. The group is the third largest land plant family, behind only the Orchidaceae and Asteraceae, with 730 genera and over 19,400 species...

: The Legume Family (The Pea Family)

Acacia

Acacia

Acacia is a genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae, first described in Africa by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in 1773. Many non-Australian species tend to be thorny, whereas the majority of Australian acacias are not...

– Acacias and Wattles

Acacia albida – Winter Thorn Acacia

Acacia aneura – Mulga Acacia

Acacia angustissima

Acacia angustissima

Acacia angustissima is a perennial, deciduous, shrub or tree in the Fabaceae family native to Central America and the United States. It is also found in South America, India and Pakistan. Other common names for it include Carboncillo, Timbe, Timbre, Fern Acacia and Prairie wattle...

– Prairie Acacia

Acacia baileyana ‘Purpurea’ – Purple-Leaf Acacia

Acacia choriophylla – Cinnecord

Acacia crassifolia – Butterfly-Leafed Acacia; Bauhinia-leafed Acacia

Acacia dealbata

Acacia dealbata

Acacia dealbata is a species of Acacia, native to southeastern Australia in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, and the Australian Capital Territory.-Description:...

– Silver Wattle

Acacia farnesiana – Sweet Acacia

Acacia greggii

Acacia greggii

Acacia greggii is a species of Acacia native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, from the extreme south of Utah south through southern Nevada, southeast California, Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas to Baja California, Sinaloa and Nuevo León in...

– Catclaw Acacia

Acacia koa – Koa

Acacia longifolia

Acacia longifolia

Acacia longifolia is a species of Acacia native to southeastern Australia, from the extreme southeast of Queensland, eastern New South Wales, eastern and southern Victoria, and southeastern South Australia. Common names for it include Acacia Trinervis, Aroma Doble, Golden Wattle, Coast Wattle,...

– Sydney Golden Wattle

Acacia macracantha – Longspine Acacia

Acacia mearnsii – Black Wattle

Acacia pendula

Acacia pendula

Acacia pendula is a species of wattle which is native to Australia. It is a tree which grows up to 10 metres in height and is pendulous in form with grey green narrow phyllodes which are about 10 cm in length....

– Weeping Acacia

Acacia pycnantha – Golden Wattle

Acacia tortilis

Acacia tortilis

Acacia tortilis, the Umbrella Thorn Acacia, also known as Umbrella Thorn and Israeli Babool, is a medium to large canopied tree native primarily to the savanna and Sahel of Africa , but also occurring in the Middle East....

– Umbrella Tree; Tortilis

Acacia tortuosa

Acacia tortuosa

Acacia tortuosa, the Twisted acacia , Poponax and Huisachillo, is a woody legume plant in the Acacia genus, a thorn tree of the Caribbean, Florida, southern Texas, northeastern and central Mexico, and northern South America...

– Huisachillo

Acacia xanthophloea

Acacia xanthophloea

Acacia xanthophloea is a tree in the Fabaceae family and is commonly known in English as the Fever Tree . This species of Acacia is native to eastern and southern Africa. It can be found in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe...

– Yellow-fever Tree

Albizia

Albizia

Albizia is a genus of about 150 species of mostly fast-growing subtropical and tropical trees and shrubs in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the legume family, Fabaceae. The genus is pantropical, occurring in Asia, Africa, Madagascar, Central, South, and southern North America and Australia, but mostly...

– Silk Trees and False Acacias

Albizia julibrissin

Albizia julibrissin

Albizia julibrissin is a species of legume in the genus Albizia, native to southwestern and eastern Asia, from Persia east to China and Korea...

– Silk Tree; Mimosa; Pea Shame

Albizia lebbeck

Albizia lebbeck

Albizia lebbeck is a species of Albizia, native to tropical southern Asia, and widely cultivated and naturalised in other tropical and subtropical regions. English names for it include Lebbeck, Lebbek Tree, Flea Tree, Frywood, Koko and Woman's tongues Tree...

– Lebbeck; Woman’s Tongue

Bauhinia

Bauhinia

Bauhinia is a genus of more than 200 species of flowering plants in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the large flowering plant family Fabaceae, with a pantropical distribution. The genus was named after the Bauhin brothers, Swiss-French botanists....

– Orchid Trees

Bauhinia purpurea

Bauhinia purpurea

Bauhinia purpurea is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to South China and Southeast Asia. Common names include Hong Kong Orchid Tree, Purple camel's foot, and Hawaiian orchid tree.-Description:...

– Purple Orchid Tree

Bauhinia variegata

Bauhinia variegata

Bauhinia variegata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to southeastern Asia, from southern China west to Pakistan and India. Common names include Orchid tree, Camel's Foot Tree and Mountain-ebony...

– Pink Orchid Tree

Bauhinia variegata var. candida – White Orchid Tree

Caesalpinia

Caesalpinia

Caesalpinia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. Membership within the genus is controversial, with different publications including anywhere from 70 to 165 species, depending largely on the inclusion or exclusion of species alternately listed under genera such as...

– Bird-of-Paradise Trees

Caesalpinia mexicana

Caesalpinia mexicana

Caesalpinia mexicana is a species of flowering plant in the pea family, Fabaceae. Common names include Mexican Holdback, Mexican Caesalpinia, and Tabachín del Monte. It is native to the extreme lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas in the United States and south to central Mexico...

– Mexican Bird-of-Paradise Tree

Caesalpinia pulcherrima

Caesalpinia pulcherrima

Caesalpinia pulcherrima is a species of flowering plant in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to the tropics and subtropics of the Americas. Its exact origin is unknown due to widespread cultivation...

– Red Bird-of-Paradise Tree; Flowerfence Poinciana

Caragana

Caragana

Caragana is a genus of about 80 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to Asia and eastern Europe.They are shrubs or small trees growing 1-6 m tall...

– Asian Pea Trees

Caragana arborescens

Caragana arborescens

Caragana arborescens, or Caragana or Siberian peashrub, is a species of legume. It is a perennial shrub growing to heights of 12 feet or more. Typically, it has a moderate to fast growth rate, being able to grow one to three feet during the first year after trimming. The plant is native to Siberia...

– Siberian Pea Tree

Cassia – Senna

Cassia leptophylla – Gold Medallion Tree

Cassia marilandica – Wild Senna

Cassia occidentalis – Coffee Senna

Ceratonia

Ceratonia

Ceratonia is genus of flowering trees in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is endemic to the Mediterranean region. It belongs to the subfamily Caesalpinioideae, tribe Caesalpinieae.An obsolete name for Ceratonia was Acalis....

– Ceratonia Trees

Ceratonia siliqua – Carob Tree

Cercis

Cercis

Cercis , is a genus of about 10 species in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to warm-temperate regions. It contains small deciduous trees or large shrubs commonly known as Redbuds...

– Redbuds

Cercis canadensis – Eastern Redbud

Cercis occidentalis

Cercis occidentalis

Cercis occidentalis, the western redbud is a small tree or shrub in the legume family. It is found across the American Southwest, from California to Utah....

– Western Redbud

Cladrastis

Cladrastis

Cladrastis kentukea, the Kentucky Yellowwood or American Yellowwood , is a species of Cladrastis native to the Southeastern United States, with a restricted range from western North Carolina west to eastern Oklahoma, and from southern Missouri and Indiana south to central Alabama...

– Yellowwoods

Cladrastis kentukea – Kentucky Yellowwood

Delonix

Delonix

Delonix is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae. It contains trees that are native to Madagascar and east Africa. By far the best known species is the Royal Poinciana ....

– Poincianas

Delonix regia – Royal Poinciana; Flamboyant

Erythrina

Erythrina

Erythrina is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. It contains about 130 species, which are distributed in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. They are trees, growing up to in height...

– Coral Trees

Erythrina caffra

Erythrina caffra

Erythrina caffra, the Coast Coral Tree, is a tree native to southeastern Africa, which is often cultivated and has introduced populations in India. It is the official tree of Los Angeles, California in the United States....

– Coastal Coral Tree

Erythrina coralloides

Erythrina coralloides

Erythrina coralloides is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae, that ranges from Arizona in the United States south to Oaxaca in Mexico....

– Naked Coral Tree

Erythrina falcata

Erythrina falcata

Erythrina falcata , commonly known as the Brazilian Coral Tree, is a timber tree native to Atlantic Forest vegetation in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina...

– Brazilian Coral Tree

Erythrina humeana

Erythrina humeana

Erythrina humeana is an ornamental tree and medicinal plant native to South Africa.-External links:**...

– Natal Coral Tree

Gleditsia

Gleditsia

Gleditsia is a genus of locust trees in the family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae, native to North America and Asia. The Latin name commemorates Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, director of the Berlin Botanical Gardens, who died in 1786....

– False Locusts

Gleditsia aquatica – Water Locust

Gleditsia triacanthos – Honey Locust

Gymnocladus

Gymnocladus

Gymnocladus is a small genus of leguminous trees.There are three species:*Gymnocladus burmanicus*Gymnocladus chinensis - soap tree...

– Gymnocladus Trees

Gymnocladus dioica – Kentucky Coffee Tree

Inga

Inga

Inga is a genus of small tropical, tough-leaved, nitrogen-fixing trees and shrubs, subfamily Mimosoideae. Ingas leaves are pinnate, and flowers are generally white...

– Sugarpod Trees

Inga edulis

Inga edulis

Inga edulis is a fruit native to South America. It is widely grown, especially by indigenous Amazonians, for shade, food, timber, medicine, and production of the alcoholic beverage cachiri...

– Ice Cream Bean

Laburnum

Laburnum

Laburnum is a genus of two species of small trees in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, Laburnum anagyroides and L. alpinum . They are native to the mountains of southern Europe from France to the Balkan Peninsula...

– Laburnum Trees

Laburnum anagyroides

Laburnum anagyroides

Laburnum anagyroides is a species of small deciduous trees or large shrubs up to 7 m tall in the genus Laburnum, native to Central and Southern Europe. It is a popular ornamental plant, along with the other species in the genus, L. alpinum, and especially the hybrid between them, L. × watereri. L...

– Goldenchain Tree

Leucaena

Leucaena

Leucaena is a genus of flowering plants in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the legume family Fabaceae. It contains about 24 species of trees and shrubs, which are commonly known as Leadtrees. They are native to the Americas, ranging from Texas in the United States south to Peru...

– Leucaana Trees

Leucaena leucocephala – Lead Tree; White Popinac

Lysiloma

Lysiloma

Lysiloma is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae.-Selected species:* Lysiloma acapulcense Benth.* Lysiloma candidum Brandegee* Lysiloma divaricatum J.F.Macbr....

– Lysiloma Trees

Lysiloma latisiliquum

Lysiloma latisiliquum

Lysiloma latisiliquum, commonly known as False Tamarind, is a species of tree in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to southern Florida in the United States, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, southern Mexico, and northern Central America....

– False Tamarind; Bahamian Wild Tamarind

Mimosa

Mimosa

Mimosa is a genus of about 400 species of herbs and shrubs, in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the legume family Fabaceae. The generic name is derived from the Greek word μιμος , meaning "mimic."...

– Mimosas

Mimosa biuncifera – Arizona Ironwood; Mimosa

Parkinsonia

Parkinsonia

Parkinsonia , also Cercidium , is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. It contains about 12 species that are native to semi-desert regions of Africa and the Americas...

– Parkinsonia Trees

Parkinsonia aculeata

Parkinsonia aculeata

Parkinsonia aculeata is a species of perennial flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae. Common names include palo verde, Mexican palo verde, Parkinsonia, Jerusalem thorn, and jelly bean tree.-Etymology:...

– Jerusalem-thorn, Mexican Palo Verde

Piscidia

Piscidia

Piscidia is a genus of flowering plants in subfamily Faboideae of the legume family, Fabaceae. The generic name is derived from the Latin words piscis, meaning "fish," and caedo, meaning "to kill." It refers to the use of extracts from the plant to poison fish.-Selected species:* Piscidia...

– Fishpoison Trees

Piscidia piscipula

Piscidia piscipula

Piscidia piscipula, commonly named Florida fishpoison tree, Jamaican dogwood or Fishfuddle, is a medium-sized, deciduous, tropical tree endemic to southern Florida, the Florida Keys, Texas, Caribbean, and Latin America. Native Americans of the West Indies discovered extracts from the tree could...

– Jamaican Dogwood; Florida Fishpoison Tree

Pithecellobium

Pithecellobium

Pithecellobium is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. The generic name is derived from the Greek words πιθηκος , meaning "ape" or "monkey," and ελλοβιον , meaning "earring," which refers to the coiled shape of the seedpods.Delimitation to the closely related Albizia is a matter...

– Blackbeads

Pithecellobium guadalupense – Guadaloupe Blackbead

Pithecellobium saman – Monkeypod

Pithecellobium unguis-cati – Catclaw Blackbead

Prosopis

Prosopis

Prosopis is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. It contains around 45 species of spiny trees and shrubs found in subtropical and tropical regions of the Americas, Africa, Western Asia, and South Asia. They often thrive in arid soil and are resistant to drought, on occasion...

– Mesquites and Kiawes

Prosopis glandulosa – Honey Mesquite

Prosopis juliflora

Prosopis juliflora

Prosopis juliflora is a shrub or small tree native to Mexico, South America and the Caribbean. It has become established as a weed in Asia, Australia and elsewhere. Its uses include forage, wood and environmental management. The tree grows to a height of up to and has a trunk with a diameter of...

– Thorny Kiawe; Algaroba

Prosopis pallida

Prosopis pallida

Prosopis pallida is a species of mesquite tree. It has the common names kiawe, huarango, and American carob, as well as "bayahonda" and "algarrobo blanco" . It is a thorny legume, native to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, particularly drier areas near the coast...

– Kiawe

Prosopis pubescens

Prosopis pubescens

Prosopis pubescens, commonly known as Screwbean Mesquite or Tornillo, is a species of flowering shrub or small tree in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico .-Description:This plant grows to about...

– Screw Bean; Tornillo

Robinia

Robinia

Robinia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae, native to North America and northern Mexico. Commonly known as "locusts", they are deciduous trees and shrubs growing 4-25 m tall. The leaves are pinnate with 7-21 oval leaflets. The flowers are white or pink, in...

– Locusts

Robinia hispida – Bristly Locust; Rose Acacia

Robinia neomexicana – New Mexican Locust

Robinia pseudoacacia – Black Locust

Robinia viscosa – Clammy Locust

Sophora

Sophora

Sophora is a genus of about 45 species of small trees and shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family, Fabaceae. The species are native to southeast Europe, southern Asia, Australasia, various islands in the Pacific Ocean, western South America, the western United States, the Southern US...

– Sophoras

Sophora affinis – Texas Sophora

Sophora japonica – Japanese Pagoda Tree

Tamarindus – Tamarinds

Tamarindus indica – Tamarind

Tipuana

Tipuana

Tipuana belongs to subfamily Faboideae of the legume family Fabaceae. It has sessile leaves, and produces samara .-List of species:*Tipuana amazonica Ducke...

– Tipuana Trees

Tipuana tipu

Tipuana tipu

Tipuana tipu, known as Rosewood, is a South American tree of the genus Tipuana. Tipu trees can reach 100 feet in height and 60 feet wide. They are known for being shade trees. Tipu leaves vary in size from 1/2 inch to 3 inches or more and they grow in clusters. The flowers are bright yellow in...

– Tipu Tree; Rosewood

Fagaceae

Fagaceae

The family Fagaceae, or beech family, comprises about 900 species of both evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubs, which are characterized by alternate simple leaves with pinnate venation, unisexual flowers in the form of catkins, and fruit in the form of cup-like nuts. Fagaceous leaves are often...

: The Beech Family

Castanea

Castanea

Castanea can mean:* Castanea , a plant genus including the chestnuts and chinkapins* Castanea, Pennsylvania, a census-designated place * Castanea Township, Pennsylvania, which surrounds the CDP of the same name...

– Chestnuts and Chinkapins

Castanea alnifolia – Florida Chinkapin

Castanea dentata – American Chestnut

Castanea mollissima

Castanea mollissima

Castanea mollissima is a member of the family Fagaceae, and a species of chestnut native to China.- Description :...

– Chinese Chestnut

Castanea ozarkensis – Ozark Chinkapin

Castanea pumila – Allegheny Chinkapin; Chinquapin

Castanopsis

Castanopsis

Castanopsis is a genus of evergreen trees belonging to the beech family, Fagaceae. The genus contains about 120 species, which are today restricted to tropical and subtropical eastern Asia. A total of 58 species are native to China, with 30 endemic; the other species occur further south, through...

– Castanopsis Trees

Castanopsis cuspidata

Castanopsis cuspidata

Castanopsis cuspidata is a species of Castanopsis native to southern Japan and southern Korea....

– Japanese Chinkapin

Castanopsis sieboldii – Itajii Chinkapin

Chrysolepis

Chrysolepis

Chrysolepis is a small genus in the beech family Fagaceae, endemic to the western United States. Its two species have the common name chinquapin...

– Chrysolepis Trees

Chrysolepis chrysophylla – Golden Chinquapin; Giant Chinquapin

Chrysolepis sempervirens – Bush Chinquapin

Fagus

Beech

Beech is a genus of ten species of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia and North America.-Habit:...

– Beeches

Fagus grandifolia – American Beech

Fagus sylvatica – European Beech

Lithocarpus

Lithocarpus

Lithocarpus is a genus in the beech family Fagaceae, differing from Quercus in the erect male spikes. The World Checklist accepts 334 species, though some other texts suggest as few as 100 species. About 100 Asian species of the genus were formerly treated in the genus Pasania. All but one are...

– Stonefruit Oaks

Lithocarpus densiflorus – Tanoak

Quercus – Oaks

Quercus acutissima – Sawtooth Oak

Quercus agrifolia – California Live Oak; Coastal Live Oak

Quercus alba – White Oak

Quercus arkansana

Quercus arkansana

Quercus arkansana is a species of plant in the Fagaceae family. It is endemic to the United States. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Nixon, K. et al. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....

– Arkansas Oak

Quercus austrina

Quercus austrina

Quercus austrina, the Bluff Oak, is an oak species that is native to the southern and western coastal states. It can grow to a height of 45 to 60 feet. Its spread can grow to a width of 35 to 50 feet....

– Bastard White Oak

Quercus bicolor – Swamp White Oak

Quercus brantii – Brant’s Oak

Quercus breviloba

Quercus breviloba

Quercus breviloba, commonly referred to as the Shallow-lobed Oak, is a species of oak tree that grows in parts of the Southern United States and Northern Mexico.-Taxonomy:...

– Shallow-lobed Oak

Quercus calliprinos – Kermes Oak

Quercus chapmanii

Quercus chapmanii

Quercus chapmanii, commonly referred to as the Chapman Oak, is a species of oak tree that grows in the Southeastern United States.-Taxonomy:...

– Chapman Oak

Quercus chrysolepis

Quercus chrysolepis

Quercus chrysolepis, commonly termed Canyon Live Oak, or Golden Cup Oak, is a species of evergreen oak that is found in the southwestern part of North America, notably in the California Coast Ranges. This tree is often found near creeks and drainage swales growing in moist cool microhabitats...

– Canyon Live Oak

Quercus coccinea – Scarlet Oak

Quercus ellipsoidalis – Northern Pin Oak; Hills Oak

Quercus falcata – Southern Red Oak

Quercus frainetto – Hungarian Oak

Quercus garryana – Oregon White Oak; Garry Oak

Quercus geminata

Quercus geminata

Quercus geminata, commonly called Sand Live Oak, is an evergreen oak tree that is native to parts of the coastal southeastern United States, along the Atlantic Coast from Miami-Dade County, Florida northward to southeastern Virginia and along the Gulf Coast from Florida northward and westward to...

– Sand Live Oak

Quercus georgiana – Georgia Oak

Quercus hemisphaerica – Laurel Oak

Quercus ilicifolia – Scrub Oak; Bear Oak

Quercus imbricaria – Shingle Oak

Quercus incana – Bluejack Oak; Upland Willow Oak

Quercus infectoria – Cyprus Oak

Quercus laevis – Turkey Oak

Quercus laurifolia – Swamp Laurel Oak

Quercus lyrata – Overcup Oak

Quercus macrocarpa – Bur Oak

Quercus margaretta – Sand Post Oak; Shrubby Oak

Quercus marilandica – Blackjack Oak

Quercus michauxii – Swamp Chestnut Oak

Quercus muehlenbergii – Chinquapin Oak

Quercus myrtifolia – Myrtle Oak

Quercus nigra – Water Oak

Quercus nuttallii – Nuttall Oak

Quercus oglethorpensis

Quercus oglethorpensis

Quercus oglethorpensis is a species of plant in the Fagaceae family. It is endemic to the United States...

– Oglethorpe Oak

Quercus pagoda

Quercus pagoda

Quercus pagoda, the Cherrybark oak, is one of the most highly valued red oaks in the southern United States. It is larger and better formed than southern red oak and commonly grows on more moist sites. Its strong wood and straight form make it an excellent timber tree...

– Cherrybark Oak

Quercus palustris – Pin Oak

Quercus phellos – Willow Oak

Quercus prinus (Quercus montana) – Chestnut Oak; Rock Chestnut Oak

Quercus robur – English Oak; Pedunculate Oak

Quercus rubra – Red Oak; Northern Red Oak

Quercus shumardii – Shumard Oak

Quercus similis – Delta Post Oak

Quercus sinuata – Bastard Oak

Quercus suber – Cork Oak

Quercus stellata – Post Oak

Quercus velutina – Black Oak

Quercus virginiana – Southern Live Oak

Grossulariaceae: The Gooseberry Family

Ribes

Ribes

Ribes is a genus of about 150 species of flowering plants native throughout the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It is usually treated as the only genus in the family Grossulariaceae. Seven subgenera are recognized....

– Currants and Gooseberries

Ribes alpestris – Hedge Gooseberry

Ribes alpinum

Ribes alpinum

Ribes alpinum, or Alpine Currant, is a small deciduous shrub native to central and northern Europe from Finland and Norway south to the Alps and Pyrenees; in the south of its range, it is confined to high altitudes...

– Alpine Currant

Ribes aureum

Ribes aureum

Ribes aureum Pursh is a species of small to medium-sized deciduous shrubs 2 to 3 meters tall in the genus Ribes...

– Golden Currant

Ribes cynosbati – Prickly Gooseberry

Ribes grossularioides – Japanese Gooseberry

Ribes hirtellum – North American Gooseberry

Ribes nigrum – Black Currant

Ribes rubrum – Red Currant; Cultivated Currant

Ribes sanguineum

Ribes sanguineum

Ribes sanguineum is a species of currant native to western coastal North America from central British Columbia south to central California.-Description:...

– Flowering Currant; Red-flowering Currant

Ribes uva-crispa (Ribes grossularia) – Common Gooseberry

Hamamelidaceae

Hamamelidaceae

The Hamamelidaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Saxifragales, including 27 genera and about 80-90 species, all shrubs and small trees...

: The Witch Hazel Family

Hamamelis – Hamamelis Shrubs

Hamamelis virginiana

Hamamelis virginiana

Hamamelis virginiana is a species of Witch-hazel native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to Minnesota, and south to central Florida to eastern Texas....

– Witch Hazel

Liquidambar – Liquidambar Trees

Liquidambar styraciflua – Sweetgum

Loropetalum

Loropetalum

Loropetalum is a genus of 3 species of shrub in the witch-hazel family, Hamamelidaceae, native to China, Japan, and south-eastern Asia.The name Loropetalum refers to the shape of the flowers and comes from the Greek loron meaning strap and petalon meaning petal. Flowers are produced in clusters...

– Fringe Flowers

Loropetalum chinense

Loropetalum chinense

Loropetalum chinense is commonly known as the Chinese fringe flower. Two forms of L. chinense exist; a white- flowering green-leafed variety and a pink-flowering variety with leaves varying from bronze-red when new to olive-green or burgundy when mature, depending on selection and growing...

– Chinese Fringe Flower; Chinese Witch Hazel

Hippocastanaceae

Hippocastanaceae

thumb|230pxHippocastanaceae is the name given to a small group of trees and shrubs, when this group is treated as a family. Its most widespread genus is Aesculus . However, the American genus Billia and the Chinese genus Handeliodendron are also sometimes included in this family...

: The Buckeye Family

Aesculus

Aesculus

The genus Aesculus comprises 13-19 species of woody trees and shrubs native to the temperate northern hemisphere, with 6 species native to North America and 7-13 species native to Eurasia; there are also several hybrids. Species are deciduous or evergreen...

– Buckeyes and Horse Chestnut

Aesculus flava – Yellow Buckeye

Aesculus glabra – Ohio Buckeye; Fetid Buckeye

Aesculus hippocastanum – Horse Chestnut

Aesculus parviflora

Aesculus parviflora

Aesculus parviflora is a species of Aesculus native to open woodlands of the southeastern United States....

– Bottlebrush Buckeye

Aesculus pavia – Red Buckeye

Aesculus sylvatica

Aesculus sylvatica

Aesculus sylvatica is a species of shrub. The species has five leaflets that are 4.5 to 6 inches long and 1.5 to 2.5 inches wide. The flowers are yellow and occasionally have red also. The species have dry fruit and brown, scaly bark. The species is commonly found in forests and along stream...

– Painted Buckeye

Illiciaceae

Illiciaceae

Illiciaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. The family has been recognized by most taxonomists, at least for the past several decades....

: The Anise-tree Family

Illicium

Illicium

Illicium is a genus of flowering plants containing 42 species of evergreen shrubs and small trees, in family Schisandraceae. The species are native to the tropical and subtropical regions of eastern and southeastern Asia, southeastern North America, and the West Indies.Selected species*Illicium...

– Anise-trees

Illicium floridanum

Illicium floridanum

Illicium floridanum is an evergreen shrub native to the south-eastern United states especially Florida and Louisiana....

– Florida Anise-tree

Illicium parviflorum

Illicium parviflorum

Illicium parviflorum, commonly known as yellow anise, is an aromatic evergreen tree or shrub common to the southeastern United States, especially around the states of Florida and Georgia. It is in the same genus as the star anise - Illicium verum, which is commonly used and sold as a spice...

– Yellow Anise-tree

Juglandaceae

Juglandaceae

The Juglandaceae, also known as the Walnut Family, is a family of trees, or sometimes shrubs, in the order Fagales. Various members of this family are native to the Americas, Eurasia, and Southeast Asia....

: The Walnut Family

Carya – Hickories and Pecans

Carya aquatica

Carya aquatica

Carya aquatica is a large tree, that can grow over 30 meters tall of the Juglandaceae or walnut family. In the American South it is a dominant plant species found on clay flats and backwater areas near streams and rivers. The species reproduces aggressively both by seed and sprouts from roots and...

– Water Hickory

Carya cordiformis – Bitternut Hickory

Carya floridana – Scrub Hickory; Florida Hickory

Carya glabra – Pignut Hickory

Carya illinoensis – Pecan

Carya laciniosa – Shellbark Hickory

Carya myristiciformis – Nutmeg Hickory

Carya ovalis

Carya ovalis

Carya ovalis, the Red Hickory, is a fairly uncommon but widespread Hickory native to eastern North America. It is typically found growing in dry, well drained sandy upland ridges and sloped woodlands from southern Ontario, Canada, and in the United States east to New Hampshire, south to northern...

– Red Hickory

Carya ovata – Shagbark Hickory

Carya pallida – Sand Hickory; Pale Hickory

Carya texana – Black Hickory

Carya tomentosa – Mockernut Hickory

Juglans – Walnuts

Juglans cinerea – Butternut; White Walnut

Juglans nigra – Black Walnut

Lauraceae

Lauraceae

The Lauraceae or Laurel family comprises a group of flowering plants included in the order Laurales. The family contains about 55 genera and over 3500, perhaps as many as 4000, species world-wide, mostly from warm or tropical regions, especially Southeast Asia and South America...

: The Laurel Family

Cinnamomum

Cinnamomum

Cinnamomum is a genus of evergreen aromatic trees and shrubs belonging to the Laurel family, Lauraceae. The species of Cinnamomum have aromatic oils in their leaves and bark. The genus contains over 300 species, distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of North America, Central America,...

– Cinnamon

Cinnamon

Cinnamon is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several trees from the genus Cinnamomum that is used in both sweet and savoury foods...

 and Camphor

Camphor

Camphor is a waxy, white or transparent solid with a strong, aromatic odor. It is a terpenoid with the chemical formula C10H16O. It is found in wood of the camphor laurel , a large evergreen tree found in Asia and also of Dryobalanops aromatica, a giant of the Bornean forests...

Cinnamomum aromaticum – Cassia

Cinnamomum camphora – Camphor Tree; Camphor Laurel

Cinnamomum verum

Cinnamomum verum

Cinnamomum verum, called "true cinnamon", Ceylon cinnamon or Sri Lanka cinnamon is a small evergreen tree belonging to the family Lauraceae, native to Sri Lanka...

– Cinnamon Tree

Laurus

Laurus

-Overview:Laurus is a genus of evergreen trees belonging to the Laurel family, Lauraceae. The genus includes three species, whose diagnostic key characters often overlap ....

– True Laurels

Laurus nobilis – Poet’s Laurel; Sweet Bay Laurel

Licaria

Licaria

Licaria is a flowering plant genus in the family Lauraceae, endemic of Central America and South America. It is a Neotropical genus with near of 40 species.-Overview:...

– Licaria Trees

Licaria triandra – Florida Licaria

Nectandra

Nectandra

Nectandra is a genus of plant in family Lauraceae.-Overview:Plants from this genus have been used in the treatment of several clinical disorders in humans. It has been demonstrated that Nectandra plants have potential analgesic, antiinflammatory, febrifuge, energetic and hypotensive activities...

– Nectandra Trees

Nectandra coriacea – Lancewood

Persea

Persea

Persea is a genus of about 150 species of evergreen trees belonging to the laurel family, Lauraceae. The best-known member of the genus is the avocado, P. americana, widely cultivated in subtropical regions for its large, edible fruit.-Overview:...

– Bay Trees

Persea americana – Avocado

Avocado

The avocado is a tree native to Central Mexico, classified in the flowering plant family Lauraceae along with cinnamon, camphor and bay laurel...

; Alligator Pear; Ashue

Persea borbonia

Persea borbonia

Persea borbonia has a variety of common names, among them are redbay, scrubbay, shorebay and swampbay. It is related to Persea americana or the avocado tree. It is an evergreen tree that is native to North America, north of Mexico.-Description:...

– Red Bay

Persea palustris

Persea palustris

Persea palustris, commonly known as the swampbay, is a tree native to eastern North America, from Texas eastwards to Florida and then extending north to Delaware, mostly on the Gulf Coastal Plain and Atlantic Coastal Plain but extending into the Piedmont somewhat. Its range also includes the...

– Swamp Bay

Sassafras

Sassafras

Sassafras is a genus of three extant and one extinct species of deciduous trees in the family Lauraceae, native to eastern North America and eastern Asia.-Overview:...

– Sassafras Trees

Sassafras albidum

Sassafras albidum

Sassafras albidum is a species of Sassafras native to eastern North America, from southern Maine and southern Ontario west to Iowa, and south to central Florida and eastern Texas. It occurs throughout the eastern deciduous forest habitat type, at altitudes of sea level up to 1,500 m...

– Sassafras

Umbellularia

Umbellularia

Umbellularia californica is a large tree native to coastal forests of California and slightly extended into Oregon.It is the sole species in the genus Umbellularia....

– Umbellularia Trees

Umbellularia californica – California Laurel

Lecythidaceae

Lecythidaceae

The Lecythidaceae comprise a family of about 20 genera and 250-300 species of woody plants native to tropical South America and Madagascar.According to the most recent molecular analysis of Lecythidaceae The Lecythidaceae comprise a family of about 20 genera and 250-300 species of woody plants...

: The Lecythis Family

Bertholletia – Bertholletia Trees

Bertholletia excelsa – Brazil Nut Tree

Couroupita

Couroupita

Couroupita is a genus of flowering plants of Lecythidaceae family. It consists of four species native to tropical South America.Selected Species* Couroupita guianensis - Cannon-ball tree-External links:* on The Lecythidaceae Pages...

– Couroupita Trees

Couroupita guianensis – Cannonball Tree

Lythraceae

Lythraceae

Lythraceae are a family of flowering plants. It includes about 620 species of mostly herbs, with some shrubs and trees, in 31 genera. Major genera include Cuphea , Lagerstroemia , Nesaea , Rotala , and Lythrum...

: The Loosestrife Family

Lagerstroemia – Lagerstroemia Trees

Lagerstroemia indica

Lagerstroemia indica

Lagerstroemia indica is a species in the genus Lagerstroemia in the family Lythraceae.From China, Korea and Japan, Lagerstroemia indica is an often multistemmed, deciduous tree with a wide spreading, flat topped, open habit when mature.The bark is a prominent feature being smooth, pinkinsh-gray...

– Crepe myrtle

Magnoliaceae

Magnoliaceae

The Magnoliaceae, or Magnolia Family, is a flowering plant family in the order Magnoliales. It consists of two subfamilies:*Magnolioideae, of which Magnolia is the most well-known genus....

: The Magnolia Family

Liriodendron

Liriodendron

Liriodendron is a genus of two species of characteristically large deciduous trees in the magnolia family .These trees are widely known by the common name tulip tree or tuliptree for their large flowers superficially resembling tulips, but are closely related to magnolias rather than lilies, the...

– Tulip Trees

Liriodendron chinense

Liriodendron chinense

Liriodendron chinense, the Chinese tulip tree, is Asia's native species in the Liriodendron genus. This native of central and southern China grows in the provinces of Anhui, Guangxi, Jiangsu, Fujian, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Zhejiang, Sichuan and Yunnan, and also locally in northern...

– Chinese Tulip Tree

Liriodendron tulipifera

Liriodendron tulipifera

Liriodendron tulipifera, commonly known as the tulip tree, American tulip tree, tuliptree, tulip poplar or yellow poplar, is the Western Hemisphere representative of the two-species genus Liriodendron, and the tallest eastern hardwood...

– Yellow Poplar; American Tulip Tree

Magnolia

Magnolia

Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae. It is named after French botanist Pierre Magnol....

– Magnolias

Magnolia acuminata – Cucumber Tree; Cucumber Magnolia

Magnolia ashei – Ashe Magnolia

Magnolia fraseri – Fraser Magnolia

Magnolia grandiflora – Southern Magnolia

Magnolia liliiflora – Lily Magnolia

Magnolia macrophylla – Bigleaf Magnolia

Magnolia pyramidata – Pyramid Magnolia

Magnolia × soulangeana

Magnolia × soulangeana

Magnolia × soulangeana is a hybrid plant in the genus Magnolia and family Magnoliaceae. It is a deciduous tree with large, early-blooming flowers in various shades of white, pink, and purple...

– Saucer Magnolia; Tulip Magnolia

Magnolia stellata – Star Magnolia

Magnolia tripetala – Umbrella Magnolia

Magnolia virginiana – Sweetbay; Swamp Bay

Malpighiaceae

Malpighiaceae

Malpighiaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. It comprises approximately 75 genera and 1300 species, all of which are native to the tropics and subtropics...

: The Malpighia Family

Byrsonima

Byrsonima

Byrsonima is one of about 75 genera in the Malpighiaceae, a family of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. In particular in American English, they are known as locustberries...

– Locustberries

Byrsonima lucida – Long Key Locustberry; Shiny Locustberry

Malpighia

Malpighia

Malpighia is a genus of flowering plants in the nance family, Malpighiaceae. It contains about 45 species of shrubs or small trees, all of which are native to the American tropics. The generic name honours Marcello Malpighi, a 17th century Italian physician and botanist. The species grow to tall,...

– Malpighia Trees

Malpighia glabra – Acerola; Barbados Cherry; Wild Crape Myrtle

Malvaceae

Malvaceae

Malvaceae, or the mallow family, is a family of flowering plants containing over 200 genera with close to 2,300 species. Judd & al. Well known members of this family include okra, jute and cacao...

: The Mallow Family

Hibiscus

Hibiscus

Hibiscus is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is quite large, containing several hundred species that are native to warm-temperate, subtropical and tropical regions throughout the world...

– Hibiscus Trees

Hibiscus mutabilis

Hibiscus mutabilis

Hibiscus mutabilis, also known as the Confederate rose or the cotton rosemallow, is a plant noted for its flowers.Confederate roses tend to be shrubby or treelike in Zones 9 and 10, though it behaves more like a perennial further north. Flowers can be double or single and are 4 to 6 inches in...

– Confederate Rose; Cotton Rose

Hibiscus syriacus

Hibiscus syriacus

Hibiscus syriacus is a widely cultivated ornamental shrub in the genus Hibiscus. Common names include Rose of Sharon , Shrub Althea and Rose Althea.-Growth:...

– Rose-of-Sharon; Althea

Hibiscus tiliaceus – Seaside Mahoe; Sea Hibiscus

Lagunaria

Lagunaria

Lagunaria is a monotypic genus in the family Malvaceae. It is an Australian plant endemic to Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and parts of coastal Queensland. It has been introduced to many parts of the world...

– Lagunaria Trees

Lagunaria patersonia – Cow Itch Tree; Primrose Tree; Norfolk Island Hibiscus; Pyramid Tree

Thespesia

Thespesia

Thespesia is a genus of 18 flowering shrubs and trees in the Hibiscus family, Malvaceae, although within the family they are more closely related to cotton plants...

– Thespesia Trees

Thespesia populnea – Portia Tree; Milo

Melastomataceae

Melastomataceae

right|thumb|200px|Characteristic venation of many melastomesThe family Melastomataceae is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants found mostly in the tropics comprising some 200 genera and 4500 species...

: The Melastome Family

Tetrazygia

Tetrazygia

Tetrazygia is a genus of plant in family Melastomataceae.Species include:* Tetrazygia albicans, Triana* Tetrazygia bicolor* Tetrazygia elegans, Urban...

– Tetrazygia Trees

Tetrazygia bicolor

Tetrazygia bicolor

Tetrazygia bicolor is a species flowering plant in the glory bush family, Melastomataceae, that is native to southern Florida in the United States and the Caribbean. Common names include Florida Tetrazygia and West Indian Lilac.T. bicolor is a shrub that reaches a height of...

– Florida Tetrazygia

Meliaceae

Meliaceae

The Meliaceae, or the Mahogany family, is a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs in the order Sapindales....

: The Mahogany Family

Cedrela

Cedrela

Cedrela is a genus of seven species in the mahogany family Meliaceae. They are evergreen or dry-season deciduous trees with pinnate leaves, native to the tropical and subtropical New World, from southern Mexico south to northern Argentina. The name is derived from a diminutive form of Cedrus...

– Cedrela Trees

Cedrela odorata

Cedrela odorata

Cedrela odorata . The genus Cedrela has undergone two major systematic revisions since 1960. The most recent revision reduced the number of species in the genus to seven . The common cedro, Cedrela odorata L., embraces 28 other named species, including C. mexicana M. J...

– Spanish Cedar; Cedro Hembra

Melia

Melia

-People:* Melia Watras , a prominent American violist* Elie Melia , a Georgian Orthodox priest and church historian* Fulvio Melia , an Italian-American physicist* Jimmy Melia , a former English footballer...

– Berry Mahoganies

Melia azedarach

Melia azedarach

Melia azedarach is a species of deciduous tree in the mahogany family, Meliaceae, that is native to Pakistan, India, Indochina Southeast Asia and Australia...

– Chinaberry

Swietenia

Swietenia

Swietenia is a genus of trees in the chinaberry family, Meliaceae. It occurs natively in the Neotropics, from southern Florida, the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America south to Bolivia...

– Baywoods

Swietenia macrophylla

Swietenia macrophylla

Swietenia macrophylla, commonly known as big leaf mahogany, is a species of plant in the Meliaceae family. It is one of two species that yields genuine mahogany timber, the other being Swietenia mahagoni....

– American Baywood

Swietenia mahagoni

Swietenia mahagoni

Swietenia mahagoni, commonly known as the West Indies Mahogany, is a species of Swietenia native to southern Florida, USA, The Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola. It is the species from which the original mahogany wood was produced....

– Mahogany

Moraceae

Moraceae

Moraceae — often called the mulberry family or fig family — are a family of flowering plants comprising about 40 genera and over 1000 species. Most are widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, less so in temperate climates...

: The Mulberry Family

Antiaris

Antiaris

Antiaris is a tropical genus of latex producing evergreen trees in the Moraceae or fig family.Some species include:*Antiaris africana Engl., an economic hardwood of Africa, an African species which grows in the drier forests of the tropics....

– Antiaris Trees

Antiaris toxicaria – Upas; Ipoh; Dart-Poison Tree

Artocarpus

Artocarpus

Artocarpus is a genus of about 60 trees of Southeast Asian origin and the Pacific, belonging to the mulberry family, Moraceae.-Description:...

– Breadfruits and Jackfruits

Artocarpus altilis – Breadfruit

Artocarpus ansiophyllus – Entawak

Artocarpus heterophyllus – Common Jackfruit

Artocarpus hypargyraea – Kwai Muk

Artocarpus integer – Chempedak

Artocarpus kemando – Pudau

Artocarpus lakoocha – Lakoocha

Artocarpus nitidus – Butong

Artocarpus odoratissimus – Marang

Artocarpus rigidus – Monkey Jackfruit

Artocarpus sarawakensis – Pingan

Artocarpus sericicarpus – Pedalai

Brosimum

Brosimum

Brosimum is a genus of plants in the mulberry family, Moraceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas.The Breadnut was used by the Maya civilization for its edible nut. The dense vividly colored scarlet wood of Satine Bloodwood is used for decorative woodworking...

– Brosimum Trees

Brosimum alicastrum

Brosimum alicastrum

Brosimum alicastrum, the breadnut or Maya nut, is a Brosimum tree species under the Moraceae family of flowering plants, whose other genera include fig and mulberries The plant is known by a range of names in indigenous Mesoamerican and other languages, including but not limited to: ramon,ojoche,...

– Breadnut

Brosimum gaudichaudii – Mama-cadela

Broussonetia

Broussonetia

Broussonetia is a genus of four species of trees in the family Moraceae, native to eastern Asia.-References:*...

– Broussonetia Trees

Broussonetia luzonica – Alakon

Broussonetia papyrifera – Paper Mulberry

Cecropia

Cecropia

Cecropia is a Neotropical genus presently consisting of sixty-one recognized species with a highly distinctive lineage of dioecious trees....

– Cecropia Trees

Cecropia peltata

Cecropia peltata

Cecropia peltata is a plant in the Cecropia genus. Common names include pumpwood and trumpet tree. It is listed as one of the world's 100 worst invasive species....

– Trumpet Tree; Yagrumo Hembra

Ficus

Ficus

Ficus is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes, and hemiepiphyte in the family Moraceae. Collectively known as fig trees or figs, they are native throughout the tropics with a few species extending into the semi-warm temperate zone. The Common Fig Ficus is a genus of...

– Fig Trees

Ficus altissima – Council Tree

Ficus aspera – Lofty Fig; Clown Fig

Ficus aurea

Ficus aurea

Ficus aurea, commonly known as the Florida strangler fig , golden fig, or higuerón, is a tree in the family Moraceae that is native to the U.S. state of Florida, the northern and western Caribbean, southern Mexico and Central America south to Panama...

– Florida Strangler Fig

Ficus auriculata – Roxburgh Fig

Ficus benghalensis

Ficus benghalensis

Ficus benghalensis, the banyan, is a large and extensive growing tree of the Indian subcontinent. Ficus benghalensis produces propagating roots which grow downwards as aerial roots. Once these roots reach the ground, they grow into woody trunks that can become indistinguishable from the main...

– Banyan Fig; Bengal Fig; Indian Fig; East Indian Fig; Indian Banyan

Ficus benjamina – Weeping Fig; Benjamin’s Fig

Ficus callosa – Kalukoi

Ficus carica – Common Fig

Ficus celebensis – Celebese Fig

Ficus coronata

Ficus coronata

Ficus coronata, commonly known as the Sandpaper Fig or Creek Sandpaper Fig, is a species of fig tree, native to Australia. It is found along the east coast from Mackay in Central Queensland, through New South Wales and just into Victoria near Mallacoota. It grows along river banks and gullies in...

– Creek Sandpaper Fig

Ficus deltoidea – Mistletoe Fig

Ficus elastica

Ficus elastica

Ficus elastica, also called the rubber fig, rubber bush, rubber tree, rubber plant, or Indian rubber bush is a species of plant in the fig genus, native to northeast India and southern Indonesia....

– Rubber Tree; Rubber Fig

Ficus erecta – Inu-Biwa; Japanese Fig

Ficus fistulosa – Yellow-stem Fig

Ficus fraseri

Ficus fraseri

Ficus fraseri, the White Sandpaper Fig or Shiny Sandpaper Fig, is one of several fig species commonly known as sandpaper figs. It is native to New South Wales and Queensland in Australia and New Caledonia...

– Shiny Sandpaper Fig

Ficus glomerata – Cluster Fig

Ficus kurzii – Thick-rinded Fig

Ficus laevigata – Jamaican Cherry

Ficus lutea

Ficus lutea

Ficus lutea is a tree in the Moraceae family. It is commonly known as the Giant-leaved Fig. These trees occur from the Eastern Cape of South Africa to Tropical Africa.- References :...

– Kaffir Fig

Ficus lyrata

Ficus lyrata

Ficus lyrata , commonly known as the fiddle-leaf fig, is a species of fig tree, native to western Africa, from Cameroon west to Sierra Leone...

– Fiddle-leaf Fig

Ficus maclellandii

Ficus maclellandii

Ficus maclellandii is a hybrid species of fig plant. It is an evergreen grown as a houseplant. The leaves are 8-13 cm....

– Banana-Leaf Fig

Ficus macrophylla – Moreton Bay Fig

Ficus mauritiana – Mauritian Fig; Maldive Fig

Ficus microcarpa

Ficus microcarpa

Ficus microcarpa, also known as Chinese Banyan, Malayan Banyan, Indian Laurel or Curtain fig, is a banyan native in the range from Sri Lanka to India, southern China, the Malay Archipelago, the Ryukyu Islands, Australia, and New Caledonia.-Taxonomy:Hill's Weeping Fig is a form of Ficus microcarpa...

– Chinese Banyan Tree; Laurel Fig; Fig Laurel

Ficus mysorensis – Mysore Fig

Ficus nekbudu – Zulu Fig

Ficus neriifolia

Ficus neriifolia

Ficus neriifolia is a fig. It is commonly used in horticulture as an indoor plant or in bonsai, where its narrow leaves are an attractive attribute....

– Narrowleaf Fig; Willow-leaf Fig; Oleander-leaf Fig

Ficus nota

Ficus nota

Ficus nota is a species of tree found near water in low altitudes. The tree can grow up to 9 meters high. Its seeds are dispersed by birds....

– Tibig

Ficus obliqua

Ficus obliqua

Ficus obliqua, commonly known as the Small-leaved Fig, a tree in the family Moraceae native to eastern Australia. It is a banyan of the genus Ficus which contains around 750 species worldwide in warm climates, including the edible fig...

– Small-leaf Fig

Ficus petiolaris – Rock Fig; Lava Fig

Ficus platypoda

Ficus platypoda

Ficus platypoda, commonly known as the desert fig or rock fig, is a fig that is endemic to central and northern Australia, and Indonesia. The fruit can be eaten when soft and ripe. Horticulturally, it is suitable for use in bonsai; its tendency to form a wide trunk base and small leaves being...

– Desert Fig; Australian Fig

Ficus pseudopalma

Ficus pseudopalma

Ficus pseudopalma is a species of fig known by the common names Philippine fig, dracaena fig, and palm-leaf fig. In nature it is endemic to the Philippines, especially the island of Luzon. It is known elsewhere as an ornamental plant....

– Philippine Fig

Ficus religiosa – Sacred Fig; Bo Tree

Ficus ribes – Walen; Gooseberry Fig

Ficus rubiginosa – Port Jackson Fig; Little-leaf Fig; Rusty Fig

Ficus septica

Ficus septica

Ficus septica is a shrub of the Moraceae family living at low altitudes from Northeast India to North Australia .It lives on the edge of the vegetation, often in degraded environments. The seeds of this species are dispersed by the fruit bats ....

– Angular-fruit Fig

Ficus sycomorus

Ficus sycomorus

Ficus sycomorus, called the sycamore fig or the fig-mulberry , sycamore, or sycomore, is a fig species that has been cultivated since ancient times...

– Sycamore Fig

Ficus triangularis – Triangle Fig

Ficus variegata – Variegated Weeping Fig; Cauliflorus Fig

Ficus virens

Ficus virens

Ficus virens is a plant of the genus Ficus found in India, southeast Asia, through Malaysia and into Northern Australia. Its common name is White Fig; it is locally known as pilkhan and in the Gun-djeihmi language it is called an-borndi. Like many figs, its fruits are edible...

– White Fig

Ficus watkinsiana

Ficus watkinsiana

Ficus watkinsiana, commonly known as Strangler fig, Watkins' fig, Nipple fig or the Green-leaved Moreton Bay Fig is a hemiepiphytic fig that is endemic to Australia...

– Australian Strangler Fig

Maclura

Maclura

Maclura is a genus of flowering plants in the mulberry family, Moraceae. It includes the inedible Osage-orange, which is used as mosquito repellent and grown throughout the United States as a hedging plant.- Species :* Maclura africana...

– Cockspur Thorns

Maclura cochinchinensis

Maclura cochinchinensis

Maclura cochinchinensis is a species of plant in the Moraceae family. It is found in China, though southeast Asia and into Australia....

– Chinese Cockspur Thorn

Maclura pomifera – Osage Orange; Mock Orange; Hedge Apple

Maclura tricuspidata – Cudrang; Mandarin Melonberry; Silkworm Thorn; Zhe (Che); Chinese Mulberry

Morus

Morus

Morus may refer to:* Morus , a genus of trees* Morus , a genus of seabird in the family Sulidae* Thomas Morus, alias Thomas More, a philosopher...

– Mulberries

Morus alba – White Mulberry

Morus australis – Chinese Mulberry

Morus celtidifolia – Mexican Mulberry

Morus insignis – Argentine Mulberry

Morus mesozygia

Morus mesozygia

Morus mesozygia, known as black mulberry or African mulberry, is a small to medium sized forest tree of Tropical Africa. Its leaves and fruit provide food for the Mantled Guereza, a colobus monkey native to much of Tropical Africa, and for the Common Chimpanzee of West and Central Africa...

– African Mulberry

Morus microphylla – Texas Mulberry

Morus nigra – Black Mulberry

Morus rubra – Red Mulberry

Moringaceae: The Moringa Family

Moringa

Moringa

Moringa is the sole genus in the flowering plant family Moringaceae. The name is derived from the Tamil word murunggai or the Malayalam word muringa, both of which refer to M. oleifera...

– Moringa Trees

Moringa oleifera

Moringa oleifera

Moringa oleifera, the word Moringa probably came from dravidian language Tamil and commonly referred to as "Shojne" in Bengali, "Munagakaya" in Telugu,"Shenano" in Rajasthani,...

– Horseradish Tree; Olive Moringa; Moringa

Muntingiaceae

Muntingiaceae

Muntingiaceae is a family of flowering plants, belonging to the rosid order Malvales. It is a small family which consists of three monotypic genera: Dicraspidia, Muntingia and Neotessmannia. They are woody plants of the tropical regions of America. The older Cronquist System places these genera in...

: The Strawberry-tree Family

Muntingia – Muntingia Trees

Muntingia calabura

Muntingia calabura

Muntingia calabura, the sole species in the genus Muntingia, is a flowering plant native to southern Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and western South America south to Peru and Bolivia...

– Strawberry Tree

Myoporaceae

Myoporaceae

Myoporaceae is a family of plants, found mostly in Australia, which includes the following genera:* Diocirea* Eremophila, also known as Emu Bush* Myoporum, also known as Boobiala...

: The Myoporum Family

Myoporum

Myoporum

Myoporum is a genus of flowering plants in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae . There are about 32 species within the genus, which is spread from Mauritius, across Australia to the Pacific Islands and up to China....

– Myoporum Trees

Myoporum laetum – Ngaio; Mousehole Tree; Myoporum

Myricaceae

Myricaceae

The Myricaceae is a small family of dicotyledonous shrubs and small trees in the order Fagales. There are three genera in the family, although some botanists separate many species from Myrica into a fourth genus Morella...

: The Bayberry Family

Myrica

Myrica

Myrica is a genus of about 35–50 species of small trees and shrubs in the family Myricaceae, order Fagales. The genus has a wide distribution, including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America, and missing only from Australasia...

– Bayberries

Myrica californica

Myrica californica

Myrica californica Myrica californica Myrica californica (California Bayberry, California Wax Myrtle or Pacific Wax Myrtle; syn. Gale californica (Cham. & Schltdl.) Greene, Morella californica (Cham...

– California Bayberry

Myrica cerifera

Myrica cerifera

Myrica cerifera is a small tree or large shrub native to North America. Its common names include Wax myrtle, Bayberry, Candleberry, Bayberry tree, and Tallow shrub...

– Wax Myrtle; Southern Bayberry

Myrica inodora – Odorless Bayberry

Myrsinaceae

Myrsinaceae

Myrsinaceae, or the Myrsine family, is a rather large family from the order Ericales. It consists of 35 genera and about 1000 species....

: The Myrsine Family

Ardisia

Ardisia

Ardisia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Myrsinaceae , native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Americas, Asia, and Australasia...

– Ardisia Trees

Ardisia escallonioides – Marlberry; Coralberry

Myrsina

Myrsina

Myrsina or Myrtle is a Greek fairy tale collected by Georgios A. Megas in Folktales of Greece. Other variants were collected by Anna Angelopoulou....

– Myrsine

Myrsina floridana – Florida Myrsine

Myrtaceae

Myrtaceae

The Myrtaceae or Myrtle family are a family of dicotyledon plants, placed within the order Myrtales. Myrtle, clove, guava, feijoa, allspice, and eucalyptus belong here. All species are woody, with essential oils, and flower parts in multiples of four or five...

 – The Myrtle Family

Agonis

Agonis

Agonis is a genus of four species in the plant family Myrtaceae. All are endemic to Western Australia, growing near the coast in the south west.Only one, Agonis flexuosa, grows to tree size, the others generally growing as tall shrubs....

– Peppermint Myrtles

Agonis flexuosa

Agonis flexuosa

Agonis flexuosa is a species of tree that grows in the south west of Western Australia. It is easily the most common of the Agonis species, and is one of the most recognisable trees of Western Australia, being commonly grown in parks and on road verges in Perth.The species is commonly known as...

– Western Australian Peppermint; Swan River Peppermint; Australian Willow Myrtle

Callistemon – Callistemon Trees

Callistemon viminalis

Callistemon viminalis

Callistemon viminalis, also known as Weeping Bottlebrush, is a shrub or small tree in the family Myrtaceae. It is native to the states of New South Wales and Queensland in Australia where it often occurs along watercourses....

– Weeping Bottlebrush

Calyptranthes – Mountainbays and Lidflowers

Calyptranthes acevedoi – Puerto Rico Mountainbay

Calyptranthes pallens – Pale Lidflower

Calyptranthes zuzygium – Myrtle-of-the-River

Corymbia

Corymbia

Corymbia is a genus of about 113 species of tree that were classified as Eucalyptus species until the mid-1990s. It includes the bloodwoods, ghost gums and spotted gums. The bloodwoods had been recognised as a distinct group within the large and diverse Eucalyptus genus since 1867...

– Corymbia Trees

Corymbia ficifolia

Corymbia ficifolia

Corymbia ficifolia or the red flowering gum also known as Albany red flowering gum is one of the most commonly planted ornamental trees in the broader eucalyptus family....

– Red-Flowering Gum

Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of flowering trees in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia...

– Eucalyptus Trees

Eucalyptus caesia

Eucalyptus caesia

Eucalyptus caesia, commonly known as Caesia, Gungurru or Silver Princess, is a mallee of the Eucalyptus genus. It is endemic to the central Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, where it is found on a small number of granite outcrops. The name "silver" refers to the white powder that covers the...

– Silver Princess Mallee

Eucalyptus camadulensis – Red River Gum

Eucalyptus cinerea

Eucalyptus cinerea

Eucalyptus cinerea, commonly known as the Argyle apple or Mealy Stringybark, is a small to medium sized tree with rough bark, persistent on the trunk and larger branches, thick, fibrous, longitudinally furrowed, reddish-brown to grey-brown....

– Silver Dollar Tree

Eucalyptus citriodora

Eucalyptus citriodora

Corymbia citriodora is a tall tree, to 51 metres in height, from temperate and tropical north eastern Australia. It is also known as lemon-scented gum, blue spotted gum and lemon eucalyptus....

– Lemon-Scented Gum

Eucalyptus cladocalyx

Eucalyptus cladocalyx

The Sugar Gum is a eucalypt from South Australia. It is found naturally in three distinct populations - in the Flinders Ranges, Eyre Peninsula and on Kangaroo Island. Sugar Gums from the Flinders Ranges reach up to 35m in height and have the classic "gum" habit - with a straight trunk and steep...

– Sugar Gum

Eucalyptus deglupta

Eucalyptus deglupta

Eucalyptus deglupta is a tall tree, commonly known as the Rainbow Eucalyptus, the Mindanao Gum, or the Rainbow Gum. It is the only Eucalyptus species found naturally in the Northern Hemisphere. Its natural distribution spans New Britain, New Guinea, Ceram, Sulawesi and Mindanao.The unique...

– Mindanao Gum

Eucalyptus globulus

Eucalyptus globulus

The Tasmanian Blue Gum, Southern Blue Gum or Blue Gum, is an evergreen tree, one of the most widely cultivated trees native to Australia. They typically grow from 30 to 55 m tall. The tallest currently known specimen in Tasmania is 90.7 m tall...

– Bluegum Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus grandis

Eucalyptus grandis

Eucalyptus grandis, commonly known as the Flooded gum or Rose gum, is a tall tree with smooth bark, rough at the base fibrous or flaky, grey to grey-brown...

– Rose Gum Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus nicholii

Eucalyptus nicholii

Eucalyptus nicholii, Narrow-Leaved Black Peppermint, Willow Peppermint is a small to medium sized tree with persistent, rough bark to small branches...

– Willow-Leafed Peppermint Gum

Eucalyptus polyanthemos

Eucalyptus polyanthemos

Eucalyptus polyanthemos is a small to medium sized tree,native to New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria in Australia...

– Silver Dollar Gum

Eucalyptus rhodantha – Rose Mallee

Eucalyptus robusta

Eucalyptus robusta

Eucalyptus robusta, commonly known as Swamp Mahogany, Swamp Messmate or Swamp Stringybark, is a tree native to eastern Australia.-Description:...

– Robust Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus rudis

Eucalyptus rudis

Eucalyptus rudis, Flooded gum, is a medium sized tree with rough, dark and light grey bark, however north of Perth its bark is smooth and very similar to Eucalyptus camaldulensis. Leaves are stalked, alternate, ovate to orbicular 12 x 7 cm, slightly discolourous and dull grey-green...

– Flooded Gum (Desert Gum)

Eucalyptus saligna

Eucalyptus saligna

Eucalyptus saligna, known as the Sydney Blue Gum, is a large Australian hardwood tree common along the New South Wales seaboard and into Queensland, reaching about 65 metres in height...

– Saligna Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus sideroxylon

Eucalyptus sideroxylon

Eucalyptus sideroxylon, or Mugga, Red Ironbark or Mugga Ironbark, is a small to medium-sized or occasionally tall tree. The bark is persistent on the trunk and large branches, hard and deeply furrowed, dark grey to black, with upper limbs smooth and whitish.Adult leaves are stalked, lanceolate to...

– Pink-Flowering Ironbark

Eucalyptus spathulata – Narrow-leaf Gimlet

Eugenia

Eugenia

Eugenia is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. It has a worldwide, although highly uneven, distribution in tropical and subtropical regions. The bulk of the approximately 1,000 species occur in the New World tropics, especially in the northern Andes, the Caribbean, and the...

– Eugenia Trees

Eugenia aggregata – Cherry of the Rio Grande

Eugenia axillaris – White Stopper

Eugenia brasiliensis – Gumichama

Eugenia confusa – Redberry Stopper

Eugenia foetida

Eugenia foetida

Eugenia foetida is a member of the family Myrtaceae, the myrtle family, and is colloquially referred to as "Spanish Stopper" or "Boxleaf Stopper."...

– Boxleaf Stopper

Eugenia luschnathiana

Eugenia luschnathiana

Eugenia luschnathiana is a flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae, native to the state of Bahia, Brazil. The fruit is known as pitomba, and is also called uvalha do campo, ubaid do campo or uvalheira in Brazil. It shares the name pitomba with another South American species, Talisia esculenta.It is...

– Pitomba

Eugenia rhombea – Red Stopper

Eugenia sprengelii – Littleleaf Eugenia; Littleaf Stopper

Eugenia stipitata

Eugenia stipitata

Eugenia stipitata is a fruit tree native to Amazon Rainforest vegetation in Brazil. It has recalcitrant seeds which should not be grown in soil, but prefer semi-rotting wood...

– Arazá

Eugenia uniflora – Surinam Cherry; Brazilian Cherry; Cayenne Cherry; Pitanga

Eugenia uvalha

Eugenia uvalha

Eugenia uvalha is a plant of the family Myrtaceae found primarily in Brazil. It reaches 20 to 45 feet in height and 1 to 1.5 feet in trunk diameter. It is a native species of Brazil, occurring primarily in the states of Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and São Paulo...

– Uvalha

Feijoa

Feijoa

Acca sellowiana, a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, is native to the highlands of southern Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, and northern Argentina. It is widely cultivated as a garden plant and fruiting tree in New Zealand, and can be found as a garden plant in Australia and...

– Feijoa Trees

Feijoa sellowiana – Pineapple Guava

Leptospermum

Leptospermum

Leptospermum is a genus of about 80-86 species of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. Most species are endemic to Australia, with the greatest diversity in the south of the continent; but one species extends to New Zealand, another to Malaysia, and L. recurvum is endemic to Malaysia.They...

– Leptospermum Trees

Leptospermum laevigatum

Leptospermum laevigatum

Leptospermum laevigatum, commonly known as the Coastal Tea Tree is a woody shrub or small tree of the myrtaceae family native to eastern Australia. Salt-resistant and very hardy, it is commonly used in amenities plantings and coastal plantings. it has also been used in Western Australia where it...

– Australian Tea Tree

Lophostemon

Lophostemon

Lophostemon is a genus of 4 species of evergreen tree in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. All four species are native to Australia, with one extending to New Guinea. The genus is a relatively recent creation; all 4 species were previously included in the related genus Tristania.The most well-known...

– Lophostemon Trees

Lophostemon confertus

Lophostemon confertus

The Brush Box, Lophostemon confertus, is a tree native to Australia, though it can be found in the United States and elsewhere. Quite frequently, it has been planted as a street tree, due to its hearty nature, its disease and pest resilience, high tolerance for smog, drought and poor drainage, as...

– Brisbane Box

Melaleuca

Melaleuca

Melaleuca is a genus of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae known for its natural soothing and cleansing properties. There are well over 200 recognised species, most of which are endemic to Australia...

– Melaleuca Trees

Melaleuca linariifolia

Melaleuca linariifolia

Melaleuca linariifolia, popularly known as Snow-in-Summer, is a plant native to eastern Australia. Other names include Narrow-leaved Paperbark, Flax-leaved Paperbark and the Gadigal Budjur....

– Flaxleaf Paperbark

Melaleuca nesophila

Melaleuca nesophila

Melaleuca nesophila, or Showy Honey-myrtle, is a shrub which is endemic to an area near Albany in Western Australia. It usually ranges between 2 metres and 3 metres in height and has elliptical leaves that are about 2 cm long...

– Pink Melaleuca

Melaleuca quinquenervia

Melaleuca quinquenervia

Melaleuca quinquenervia, commonly known as Niaouli or Broad-leaved paperbark or the Paper Bark Tea Tree, is a small- to medium-sized tree of the allspice family, Myrtaceae. The plant is native to New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea and coastal Eastern Australia, from Botany Bay in New South Wales...

– Cajeput Melaleuca

Metrosideros

Metrosideros

Metrosideros is a genus of approximately 50 trees, shrubs, and vines native to the islands of the Pacific Ocean, from the Philippines to New Zealand and including the Bonin Islands, Polynesia, and Melanesia, with an anomalous outlier in South Africa. Most of the tree forms are small, but some are...

– Ratas and Pohutukawa

Metrosideros excelsa – Pohutukawa; New Zealand Christmas Tree

Metrosideros polymorpha

Metrosideros polymorpha

The ōhia lehua is a species of flowering evergreen tree in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, that is endemic to the six largest islands of Hawaii. It is a highly variable tree, being tall in favorable situations, and much smaller when growing in boggy soils or on basalt...

– Hawaiian Bottlebrush; ʻŌhiʻa Lehua; Lehua

Metrosideros robusta

Metrosideros robusta

Northern rātā , is a huge forest tree endemic to New Zealand. It grows up to 25 m or taller, and usually begins its life as a hemiepiphyte high in the branches of a mature forest tree; over centuries the young tree sends descending and girdling roots down and around the trunk of its host,...

– Northern Rata

Metrosideros umbellata

Metrosideros umbellata

Southern rātā , is a tree endemic to New Zealand. It grows up to 15 m. or more tall with a trunk up to 1 m. or more in diameter. It produces masses of red flowers in summer...

– Southern Rata

Myrcianthes

Myrcianthes

Myrcianthes is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae.-Selected species:* Myrcianthes apiculata O.Berg* Myrcianthes callicoma McVaugh* Myrcianthes fragrans McVaugh – Twinberry, Twinberry Stopper...

– Myrcianthes Trees

Myrcianthes fragrans – Twinberry, Simpson's Stopper

Myrtus – Myrtles

Myrtus communis – Common Myrtle

Psidium – Guavas

Psidium friedrichsthalium

Psidium friedrichsthalium

Psidium friedrichsthalium is a species of the guava family found mostly in Costa Rica but also grown in Guatemala, Nicaragua and other Central American countries...

– Costa Rica Guava; Casa Guava

Psidium galapageium – Galapagos Guava

Psidium guajava

Psidium guajava

The apple guava or common guava is an evergreen shrub or small tree native to Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America...

– Apple Guava; Common Guava

Psidium guineense – Guinea Guava

Psidium havanense

Psidium havanense

Psidium havanense is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae family. It is endemic to Cuba. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....

– Cuban Guava

Psidium littorale var. cattleianum – Strawberry Guava; Cattley Guava; Peruvian Guava; Chinese Guava

Psidium littorale var. littorale – Lemon Guava

Psidium longipes – Long-Stalk Stopper; Mangroveberry

Psidium montanum – Mountain Guava

Psidium sartorianum – Sartre Guava

Rhodomyrtus

Rhodomyrtus

Rhodomyrtus is a genus of 24 species of shrubs and trees in the family Myrtaceae. The genus is native to Asia, Malesia, Melanesia, and Australia. Its greatest levels of diversity are on New Guinea and in northeastern Australia. DNA sequence data and morphological data indicate that the genus is...

– Rose Myrtles

Rhodomyrtus tomentosa

Rhodomyrtus tomentosa

Rhodomyrtus tomentosa is a flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae, native to southern and southeastern Asia, from India, east to southern China, Taiwan and the Philippines, and south to Malaysia and Sulawesi...

– Downy Rose Myrtle

Syzygium

Syzygium

Syzygium is a genus of flowering plants that belongs to the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. The genus comprises about 1100 species, and has a native range that extends from Africa and Madagascar through southern Asia east through the Pacific...

– Lillypillies

Syzygium aromaticum – Clove

Syzygium cumini – Jambul; Jamun; Jamblang

Syzygium luehmannii

Syzygium luehmannii

Syzygium luehmannii is a medium sized coastal rainforest tree. Common names include Riberry, Small Leaved Lilli Pilli, Cherry Satinash, Cherry Alder, or Clove Lilli Pilli....

– Riberry; Small-leaved Lillypilly; Cherry Satinash; Cherry Alder; Clove Lillypilly

Syzygium malaceense – Malay Apple; Mountain Apple; Jambu Bol; Plum Rose; and Pommerac

Syzygium oleosum

Syzygium oleosum

Syzygium oleosum, commonly known as the Blue Lilly Pilly, is a species of Syzygium tree native to eastern Australian rainforests and wet sclerophyll forests. It is usually a small tree, 4 to 15 m tall. The leaves are opposite, simple and lanceolate to ovate, with a dark glossy upper surface and...

– Blue Lilly Pilly

Syzygium paniculatum – Magenta Lillypilly; Magenta Cherry; Brush Cherry

Syzygium samarangense

Syzygium samarangense

Syzygium samarangense is a plant species in the Myrtaceae, native to India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Samoa, Sri Lanka and Thailand, and widely cultivated in the tropics...

– Wax Apple; Love Apple; Java Apple; Bellfruit

Tristaniopsis

Tristaniopsis

Tristaniopsis is a genus of 40 species of shrub and tree in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. They have a wide distribution, ranging from Burma, Thailand, Malesia, New Caledonia and Australia.Species include:*Tristaniopsis lucida...

– Water Gum Trees

Tristaniopsis laurina

Tristaniopsis laurina

Tristaniopsis laurina, the Water Gum or Kanooka is a tree native to Australia, where it usually grows near the eastern coastline and along the banks of streams, where the trunks and branches tend to be shaped in the direction of the current and give an indication of the flood height. It is popular...

– Australian Water Gum

Nothofagaceae: The Southern Beech Family

Nothofagus

Nothofagus

Nothofagus, also known as the southern beeches, is a genus of 35 species of trees and shrubs native to the temperate oceanic to tropical Southern Hemisphere in southern South America and Australasia...

– Southern Beeches

Nothofagus antarctica

Nothofagus antarctica

Nothofagus antarctica , is a deciduous tree or shrub native to southern Chile and Argentina from about 36°S to Tierra del Fuego . The southernmost occurrence is on Hoste Island, making it the southernmost trees on earth...

– Antarctic Beech; Ñire

Nothofagus betuloides

Nothofagus betuloides

Nothofagus betuloides, the Magellan's beech and is sometimes known by the common name guindo, is native to southern Patagonia.In 1769 Sir Joseph Banks collected a specimen of the tree in Tierra del Fuego during Captain Cook's first voyage....

– Magellan’s Beech; Birch-leaf Beech; Guindo

Nothofagus cunninghamii – Myrtle Beech

Nothofagus dombeyi – Coihue; Coigue; False Beech

Nothofagus menziesii

Nothofagus menziesii

Nothofagus menziesii or Silver beech is a tree of the Nothofagus or southern beech genus endemic to New Zealand. Its common name probably comes from the fact that its bark is whitish in colour, particularly in younger specimens. It is found from Thames southwards in the North Island , and...

– Silver Beech

Nothofagus moorei

Nothofagus moorei

Nothofagus moorei, is an important Gondwana relict of the rainforests of the southern hemisphere. It occurs in wet, fire free areas at high altitude in eastern Australia....

– Moore’s Antarctic Beech

Nothofagus nitida

Nothofagus nitida

Nothofagus nitida is an evergreen tree, native from Chile and probably Argentina, it lives from 40° to Última Esperanza .-Description:...

– Coigüe de Chiloé; Chiloé’s Coigue

Nothofagus obliqua

Nothofagus obliqua

Nothofagus obliqua, is a deciduous tree from Chile and Argentina. It grows from 33 to 43° South Latitude, in Chile and Argentina. The northern extent of this tree's range in Chile is considered to be the Vizcachas Mountains and La Campana National Park.-Description:N...

– Roble; Hualle; Coyán

Nothofagus pumilio – Lenga; Lenga Beech

Nothofagus truncata

Nothofagus truncata

Nothofagus truncata or Hard Beech is a species of tree endemic to New Zealand. Its common name derives from the fact that its wood has a high silica content, making it hard and difficult to saw. Hard Beech is a tree up to 30m tall occurring in lowland and lower montane forest from lat...

– Hard Beech

Nyctaginaceae

Nyctaginaceae

Nyctaginaceae, the Four O'Clock Family, is a family of around 33 genera and 290 species of flowering plants, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions, with a few representatives in temperate regions...

: The Four O’Clock Family

Guapira

Guapira

Guapira is a genus of plant in family Nyctaginaceae. It contains the following species :* Guapira myrtiflora, Little* Guapira rotundifolia, Lundell...

– Blollies

Guapira discolor – Longleaf Blolly; Beeftree

Pisonia

Pisonia

Pisonia is a genus of flowering plants in the four o'clock flower family, Nyctaginaceae. It was named for Dutch physician and naturalist Willem Piso . Certain species in this genus are known as Catchbirdtrees because their sticky seeds reportedly trap small birds...

– Pisonia or Mapou Trees

Pisonia brunoniana

Pisonia brunoniana

Pisonia brunoniana is a species of flowering tree in the Bougainvillea family, Nyctaginaceae, that is native to New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island and Hawaii. The common names in New Zealand are Parapara or Birdcatcher tree.-Habit:...

– Parapara; Birdcatcher Tree; Pāpala Kēpau

Pisonia grandis

Pisonia grandis

Pisonia grandis is a species of flowering tree in the Bougainvillea family, Nyctaginaceae.-Description:The tree has broad, thin leaves, smooth bark and bears clusters of green sweet-smelling flowers that mature into sticky barbed seeds....

– Indian Pisonia; Catchbird Tree; Birdcatcher Tree

Pisonia rotundata – Smooth Devil’s Claws; Florida Pisonia

Nyssaceae

Nyssaceae

Nyssaceae is a small family of flowering trees closely related to and often included within the dogwood family . Nyssaceae commonly includes the following genera:...

: The Sourgum Family

Nyssa

Nyssa

Nyssa may refer to:* the genus name for the tupelo tree* Nyssa , a female name** Nyssa , a companion of the Fourth and Fifth Doctors in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who...

– Tupelo Trees

Nyssa aquatica – Water Tupelo

Water Tupelo

Nyssa aquatica, commonly called the water tupelo, cottongum, wild olive, large tupelo, sourgum, tupelo-gum, or water-gum, is a large, long-lived tree in the tupelo genus that grows in swamps and floodplains in the Southeastern United States.Nyssa aquatica trunks have a swollen base that tapers up...

Nyssa biflora – Swamp Tupelo; Swamp Blackgum

Nyssa ogeche – Ogeeche Lime; Ogeeche Tupelo

Nyssa sylvatica – Blackgum; Black Tupelo

Black Tupelo

Nyssa sylvatica, commonly known as black tupelo, tupelo, or black gum, is a medium-sized deciduous tree native to eastern North America from New England and southern Ontario south to central Florida and eastern Texas, as well as Mexico.-Names:Nyssa sylvaticas genus name refers to a Greek water...

Olacaceae

Olacaceae

Olacaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Santalales. They are woody plants, native throughout the tropical regions of the world....

: The Olax Family

Schoepfia

Schoepfia

Schoepfia is a small genus of flowering plants belonging to the enigmatic family Schoepfiaceae. The genus has long been placed in the Olacaceae family though many researchers noted the differences between it and the rest of the family...

– Schoepfia Trees

Schoepfia chrysophylloides – Graytwig; Gulf Graytwig

Oleaceae

Oleaceae

Oleaceae are a family containing 24 extant genera and around 600 species of mesophytic shrubs, trees and occasionally vines. As shrubs, members of this family may be twine climbers, or scramblers.-Leaves:...

: The Olive Family

Chionanthus

Chionanthus

Chionanthus is a genus of about 80 species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae.The genus has a wide distribution primarily in the tropics and subtropics, but with two species extending north into temperate regions, one in eastern Asia and one in eastern North America...

– Fringe Trees

Chionanthus virginicus

Chionanthus virginicus

Chionanthus virginicus is a tree native to the eastern United States, from New Jersey south to Florida, and west to Oklahoma and Texas. -Growth:...

– Fringe Tree

Forestiera

Forestiera

Forestiera is a genus of about 20 species of flowering plants in the olive family, Oleaceae. Members of the genus are often called swampprivets. Most are shrubs.-Selected species:...

– False Privets

Forestiera acuminata

Forestiera acuminata

Forestiera acuminata, commonly known as Eastern Swamp Privet, is a deciduous shrub or small tree that is native to the southeastern and central United States, growing primarily in or near wetlands....

– Swamp Privet

Forestiera segregata – Florida Privet

Fraxinus – Ashes

Fraxinus americana – White Ash

Fraxinus angustifolia var. raywoodi – Raywood Ash

Fraxinus caroliniana

Fraxinus caroliniana

Fraxinus caroliniana, commonly known as the Pop ash, Florida ash, Swamp ash, or Water ash, is a species of ash tree native to the southeastern United States. It was originally described by the botanist Philip Miller. It is a small tree about 40 ft...

– Carolina Ash

Fraxinus excelsior – European Ash

Fraxinus latifolia – Oregon Ash

Fraxinus nigra

Fraxinus nigra

Fraxinus nigra is a species of Fraxinus native to much of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, from western Newfoundland west to southeastern Manitoba, and south to Illinois and northern Virginia....

– Black Ash

Fraxinus ornus

Fraxinus ornus

Fraxinus ornus is a species of Fraxinus native to southern Europe and southwestern Asia, from Spain and Italy north to Austria and the Czech Republic, and east through the Balkans, Turkey, and western Syria to the Lebanon.It is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to 15–25 m tall with a trunk up...

– Flowering Ash; Manna Ash

Fraxinus pennsylvanica – Green Ash

Fraxinus profunda

Fraxinus profunda

Fraxinus profunda is a species of Fraxinus native to eastern North America, primarily in the United States, with a scattered distribution on the Atlantic coastal plain and interior lowland river valleys from southern Maryland northwest to Indiana, southeast to northern Florida, and southwest to...

– Pumpkin Ash

Fraxinus quadrangulata – Blue Ash

Fraxinus uhdei – Evergreen Ash

Fraxinus velutina

Fraxinus velutina

Fraxinus velutina is a species of Fraxinus native to southwestern North America, in the United States from southern California east to Texas, and in Mexico from northern Baja California east to Coahuila and Nuevo León.-Description:Fraxinus velutina is a small deciduous tree growing to 10 m tall,...

– Arizona Ash

Ligustrum

Ligustrum

Ligustrum is a genus of about forty species of erect, deciduous or evergreen shrubs, sometimes forming small or medium-sized trees. They are now all known by the common name of privet.-Selected species:...

– Privets

Ligustrum japonicum

Ligustrum japonicum

Ligustrum japonicum is a species of Ligustrum native to central and southern Japan and Korea....

– Japanese Privet

Ligustrum luciudum – Glossy Privet

Ligustrum ovalifolium

Ligustrum ovalifolium

Ligustrum ovalifolium, also known as Oval-Leaved Privet, is a semi-evergreen shrub used extensively for hedging, and sometimes for other garden uses. The species comes from Japan...

– California Privet

Ligustrum sinense – Chinese Privet

Noronhia

Noronhia

Noronhia is a genus of 41 species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae, all but one native to Madagascar, the remaining species native to the Comoros Islands north of Madagascar.The species are deciduous or evergreen trees....

– Noronhia Trees

Noronhia emarginata

Noronhia emarginata

Noronhia emarginata is a species of Noronhia native, and endemic to, Madagascar....

– Madagascar Olive

Olea

Olea

Olea is a genus of about 40 species in the family Oleaceae, native to warm temperate and tropical regions of southern Europe, Africa, southern Asia and Australasia. They are evergreen trees and shrubs, with small, opposite, entire leaves...

– Olives

Olea europaea – Mediterranean Olive; Common Olive

Osmanthus

Osmanthus

Osmanthus is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae, mostly native to warm temperate Asia but one species occurring in North America . It is sometimes included in Nestegis.They range in size from shrubs to small trees, 2-12 m tall...

– Osmanthus Trees

Osmanthus americanus – Devilwood; Osmanthus

Oxalidaceae

Oxalidaceae

The Oxalidaceae, or wood sorrel family, are a small family of eight genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs and small trees, with the great majority of the 900 species in the genus Oxalis...

: The Wood Sorrel Family

Averrhoa

Averrhoa

Averrhoa is a genus of trees in the Oxalidaceae family, of the Oxalidales order, named after Averroes - a 12th century astronomer and philosopher from Al-Andalus.-Selected species:...

– Averrhoa Trees

Averrhoa carambola

Averrhoa carambola

Averrhoa carambola is a species of woody plant in the family Oxalidaceae; it has a number of common names including Carambola and Starfruit....

– Carambola; Star Fruit

Pandanaceae

Pandanaceae

Pandanaceae is a family of flowering plants native to the tropics of the Old World. Such a family has been widely recognized by taxonomists.Pandanaceae are trees or climbing or scrambling shrubs distributed in the Old World tropics and are adapted from sea level in salted beaches to mountain cloud...

: The Screwpine Family

Pandanus

Pandanus

Pandanus is a genus of monocots with about 600 known species. They are numerous palmlike dioecious trees and shrubs native of the Old World tropics and subtropics. They are classified in the order Pandanales, family Pandanaceae.-Overview:...

– Pandanus Trees

Pandanus utilis

Pandanus utilis

The common screwpine is, despite its name, a tropical tree and not a pine.It is native to Madagascar, Mauritius, and the Seychelles.It has been successfully grown by gardeners in Puerto Rico, Florida, and California.-Description:...

– Screwpine

Phyllanthaceae

Phyllanthaceae

Phyllanthaceae is a family of flowering plants in the eudicot order Malpighiales. It is most closely related to the family Picrodendraceae. The Phyllanthaceae are most numerous in the tropics, with many in the south temperate zone, and a few ranging as far north as the middle of the north temperate...

: The Gooseberry Tree Family

Bischofia – Bischofia Trees

Bischofia javanica

Bischofia javanica

Bischofia javanica is a plant species of the family Phyllanthaceae. It and the related B. polycarpa are the only two members of genus and tribe...

– Bishopwood; Toog Tree

Phyllanthus

Phyllanthus

Phyllanthus is the largest genus in the flowering plant family Phyllanthaceae. Estimates of the number species in this genus vary widely, from 750 to 1200. Phyllanthus has a remarkable diversity of growth forms including annual and perennial herbs, shrubs, climbers, floating aquatics, and...

– Gooseberry Trees

Phyllanthus acidus – Star Gooseberry; Tahitian Gooseberry Tree; Malay Gooseberry

Phyllanthus emblica – Indian Gooseberry Tree

Phyllanthus niruri

Phyllanthus niruri

The annual herb Phyllanthus niruri is best known by the common names Stonebreaker, Chanca Piedra and Quebra Pedra, Seed-Under-Leaf but has many other common names in assorted languages, including dukong anak, dukong-dukong anak, amin buah, rami buah, turi hutan, bhuiaonla, Meniran ,...

– Chanca Piedra

Pittosporaceae

Pittosporaceae

Pittosporaceae is a family of flowering plants. The family includes approximately 200 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas in 9-10 genera. The species of Pittosporaceae range from tropical to temperate climates of the Afrotropic, Indomalaya, Oceania, and Australasia ecozones.-Genera:* Auranticarpa...

: The Pittosporum Family

Pittosporum

Pittosporum

Pittosporum is a genus of about 200 species of flowering plants in the family Pittosporaceae. The genus is probably Gondwanan in origin; its present range extends from Australasia, Oceania, eastern Asia and some parts of Africa. Citriobatus is usually included here, but might be a distinct genus...

– Pittosporums

Pittosporum rhombifolium – Queensland Pittosporum; Diamond Pittosporum

Platanaceae

Platanaceae

Platanaceae is a family of flowering plants. It has been recognized by almost all taxonomists, and is sometimes called the "plane-tree family"....

: The Sycamore Family

Platanus

Platanus

Platanus is a small genus of trees native to the Northern Hemisphere. They are the sole living members of the family Platanaceae....

– Sycamore Trees

Platanus hispanica – London Plane

Platanus occidentalis – American Sycamore

Platanus orientalis

Platanus orientalis

Platanus orientalis, or the Oriental plane, is a large, deciduous tree of the Platanaceae family, known for its longevity and spreading crown. The species name derives from its historical distribution eastward from the Balkans, where it was recognized in ancient Greek history and literature....

– Oriental Plane

Platanus racemosa – California Sycamore

Platanus wrightii

Platanus wrightii

Platanus wrightii , is a sycamore tree native to Arizona and New Mexico with its range extending south into Sonora, and a small area of Chihuahua Mexico....

– Arizona Sycamore

Poaceae

Poaceae

The Poaceae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called grasses, although the term "grass" is also applied to plants that are not in the Poaceae lineage, including the rushes and sedges...

: The Grass Family

Dendrocalamus

Dendrocalamus

Dendrocalamus is a tropical genus of giant clumping bamboo, which are similar to the genus Bambusa. With about 29 species, this genus is found from the Indian subcontinent throughout Southeast Asia...

– Tree Bamboos

Dendrocalamus asper – Giant Bamboo; Edible Bamboo

Polygonaceae

Polygonaceae

Polygonaceae is a family of flowering plants known informally as the "knotweed family" or "smartweed family"— "buckwheat family" in the United States. The name is based on the genus Polygonum and was first used by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in 1789 in his book, Genera Plantarum. The name refers...

: The Knotweed Family

Coccoloba

Coccoloba

Coccoloba is a genus of about 120–150 species of flowering plants in the family Polygonaceae. The genus is native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, in South America, the Caribbean and Central America, with two species extending into Florida.The species are shrubs and trees,...

– Coccoloba Trees

Coccoloba diversifolia – Pidgeon Plum

Coccoloba uvifera

Coccoloba uvifera

Coccoloba uvifera is a species of flowering plant in the buckwheat family, Polygonaceae, that is native to coastal beaches throughout tropical America and the Caribbean, including southern Florida, the Bahamas, Barbados and Bermuda...

– Seagrape

Proteaceae

Proteaceae

Proteaceae is a family of flowering plants distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises about 80 genera with about 1600 species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae they make up the order Proteales. Well known genera include Protea, Banksia, Embothrium, Grevillea,...

: The Protea Family

Alloxylon

Alloxylon

Alloxylon is a genus of five species in the Proteaceae family of mainly small to medium-sized trees. They are native to the eastern coast of Australia, with one species, A. brachycarpum found in New Guinea and the Aru Islands. The genus is a relatively new creation, being split off from Oreocallis...

– Alloxylon Trees

Alloxylon flammeum

Alloxylon flammeum

Alloxylon flammeum, the Queensland Tree Waratah or Red Silky Oak is a medium-sized tree of the Proteaceae found in only a few kilometres of the Atherton Tableland in northeastern Australia...

– Satin Oak

Banksia

Banksia

Banksia is a genus of around 170 species in the plant family Proteaceae. These Australian wildflowers and popular garden plants are easily recognised by their characteristic flower spikes and fruiting "cones" and heads. When it comes to size, banksias range from prostrate woody shrubs to trees up...

– Banksias

Banksia ashbyi

Banksia ashbyi

The Ashby's Banksia is a species of shrub in the plant genus Banksia. It occurs in heath and spinifex country along the coast of Western Australia between Geraldton and Exmouth.-Description:...

– Ashby’s Banksia

Banksia integrifolia

Banksia integrifolia

Banksia integrifolia, commonly known as Coast Banksia, is a species of tree that grows along the east coast of Australia. One of the most widely distributed Banksia species, it occurs between Victoria and Central Queensland in a broad range of habitats, from coastal dunes to mountains...

– Coast Banksia

Banksia seminuda

Banksia seminuda

Banksia seminuda, commonly known as the River Banksia, is a tree in the plant genus Banksia. It is found in south west Western Australia from Dwellingup to the Broke Inlet east of Denmark . It is often mistaken for and was originally considered a subspecies of the Banksia littoralis...

– River Banksia

Dryandra

Dryandra

Banksia ser. Dryandra is a series of 94 species of shrub to small tree in the plant genus Banksia. It was considered a separate genus named Dryandra until early 2007, when it was merged into Banksia on the basis of extensive molecular and morphological evidence that Banksia was paraphyletic with...

– Dryandras

Dryandra proteoides – King Dryandra

Embothrium

Embothrium

Embothrium is a genus of two to eight species in the plant family Proteaceae, native to southern South America, in Chile and adjacent western Argentina and southern Peru; the genus occurs as far south as Tierra del Fuego...

– Firebushes

Embothrium coccineum

Embothrium coccineum

Chilean firetree, Chilean firebush, Notro in Spanish , is a small evergreen tree in the family Proteaceae. It grows in the temperate forests of Chile and Argentina....

– Chilean Firebush

Grevillea

Grevillea

Grevillea is a diverse genus of about 360 species of evergreen flowering plants in the protea family Proteaceae, native to Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, and Sulawesi. It was named in honour of Charles Francis Greville. The species range from prostrate shrubs less than 0.5 m tall to trees...

– Grevillea Trees

Grevillea robusta

Grevillea robusta

Grevillea robusta, commonly known as the southern silky oak or Silky-oak, or Australian Silver-oak, is the largest species in the genus Grevillea. It is a native of eastern coastal Australia, in riverine, subtropical and dry rainforest environments receiving more than 1,000 mm per year of...

– Silk Oak; Australian Silver Oak

Hakea

Hakea

Hakea is a genus of 149 species of shrubs and small trees in the Proteaceae, native to Australia. They are found throughout the country, with the highest species diversity being found in the south west of Western Australia....

– Hakea Proteas

Hakea laurina

Hakea laurina

Hakea laurina is a plant of Southwest Australia that is widely cultivated and admired. The species is often referred to as Kodjet, Pincushion Hakea, and Emu Bush...

– Pincushion Bush; Pincushion Tree

Leucadendron

Leucadendron

Leucadendron is a genus of about 80 species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, endemic to South Africa, where they are a prominent part of the fynbos ecoregion and vegetation type.-Description:...

– Leucadendrons

Leucadendron argenteum

Leucadendron argenteum

Leucadendron argenteum is an endangered species in the family Proteaceae, endemic to a small area of the Cape Peninsula, in and around the city of Cape Town.-Appearance:...

– Silverleaf; Silvertree

Leucadendron laureolum – Golden Conebush

Leucospermum

Leucospermum

Leucospermum is a genus of about 50 species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, native to Zimbabwe and South Africa, where they occupy a variety of habitats, including scrub, forest, and mountain slopes.They are evergreen shrubs growing to 0.5-5 m tall...

– Leucospermum Trees

Leucospermum conocarpodendron

Leucospermum conocarpodendron

Leucospermum conocarpodendron is the largest of the Pincushion Proteas . Their natural habitat is the area around Cape Town, in the Western Cape, South Africa....

– Pincushion

Macadamia

Macadamia

Macadamia is a genus of nine species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, with a disjunct distribution native to eastern Australia , New Caledonia and Sulawesi in Indonesia ....

– Macadamia Nut Trees

Macadamia integrifolia

Macadamia integrifolia

Macadamia integrifolia is a tree in the Proteaceae family, native to Queensland in Australia. Common names include Macadamia Nut, Bauple Nut, Queensland Nut or Nut Oak....

– Smooth-shelled Macadamia

Macadamia ternifolia – Small-fruited Macadamia

Macadamia tetraphylla

Macadamia tetraphylla

Macadamia tetraphylla is a tree in the Proteaceae family, native to Queensland in Australia. Common names include Macadamia Nut, Bauple Nut, Prickly Macadamia, Queensland Nut, Rough-shelled Bush Nut and Rough-shelled Queensland NutThis species has dense foliage and grows up to 18 metres in height...

– Rough-shelled Macadamia

Mimetes

Mimetes

Mimetes is a genus of plants in the large family Proteaceae. This genus, as with other proteas, is popular with nectivorous birds such as the Cape Sugarbird and several sunbird species.It contains the following species :...

– Pagoda Bushes

Mimetes cucullatus – Common Pagoda Bush

Persoonia

Persoonia

Persoonia is a genus of 98 species of shrubs and small trees in the tribe Persoonioideae in the large and diverse plant family Proteaceae. In the eastern states of Australia, they are commonly known as Geebungs, while in Western Australia and South Australia they go by the common name Snottygobbles...

– Geebungs

Persoonia levis

Persoonia levis

Persoonia levis, commonly known as the broad-leaved geebung, is a shrub native to New South Wales and Victoria in eastern Australia. It reaches 5 m in height and has dark grey papery bark and bright green asymmetrical sickle-shaped leaves up to 14 cm long and 8 cm wide...

– Smooth Geebung; Broad-leaved Geebung

Persoonia linearis

Persoonia linearis

Persoonia linearis, commonly known as the narrow-leaved geebung, is a shrub native to New South Wales in eastern Australia.-Taxonomy:...

– Narrow-leaved Geebung; Geebung Pine

Protea

Protea

Protea is both the botanical name and the English common name of a genus of flowering plants, sometimes also called sugarbushes.-Etymology:...

– Protea Trees and Shrubs

Protea caffra

Protea caffra

Protea caffra is a small tree or shrub which occurs in open or wooded grassland usually on rocky ridges. Its leaves are leathery and hairless. The flower head is solitary or in clusters of 3 or 4 with the involucral bracts a pale red, pink or cream colour. The fruit is a densely hairy nut...

– Common Protea

Protea cynaroides – King Protea

Protea repens – Common Sugarbush; Sugarbush Protea

Stenocarpus

Stenocarpus

Stenocarpus is a genus of around 25 species of woody trees or shrubs of the family Proteaceae, occurring in rainforests of Eastern and monsoonal areas of Northern and North-Western Australia with 2 extending into New Guinea and the Aru Islands, with the greatest diversity occurring in New...

– Stenocarpus Tree Species

Stenocarpus sinuatus

Stenocarpus sinuatus

Stenocarpus sinuatus, known as the Firewheel Tree is an Australian rainforest tree in the Protea family. The range of natural distribution is in various rainforest types from the Nambucca River in New South Wales to the Atherton Tableland in tropical Queensland...

– Firewheel Tree

Telopea – Telopea Trees

Telopea speciosissima

Telopea speciosissima

Telopea speciosissima, commonly known as the New South Wales waratah or simply waratah, is a large shrub in the plant family Proteaceae. It is endemic to New South Wales in Australia and is the floral emblem of that state...

– Waratah

Punicaceae: Pomegranate Family

Punica

Punica

Punica is a small genus of fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small trees. Its best known species is the pomegranate . The only other species in the genus, the Socotra pomegranate , is endemic on the island of Socotra...

– Punica Trees

Punica granatum – Pomegranate

Rhamnaceae

Rhamnaceae

Rhamnaceae, the Buckthorn family, is a large family of flowering plants, mostly trees, shrubs and some vines.The family contains 50-60 genera and approximately 870-900 species. The Rhamnaceae have a worldwide distribution, but are more common in the subtropical and tropical regions...

: The Buckthorn Family

Colubrina

Colubrina

Colubrina is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia, northern Australia, and the Indian Ocean islands. Common names include nakedwood, snakewood, greenheart and hogplum...

– Nakedwoods

Colubrina arborescens – Greenheart; Coffee Colubrina

Colubrina asiatica

Colubrina asiatica

Colubrina asiatica is a shrub in the family Rhamnaceae that is native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World, from eastern Africa to India, southeast Asia, tropical Australia, and the Pacific Islands. Common names include latherleaf, Asian nakedwood and Asian snakewood.-Description:C...

– Asian Nakedwood

Colubrina elliptica

Colubrina elliptica

Colubrina elliptica, Mabi or Soldierwood, is a species of flowering tree in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae, that is native to the Florida Keys, the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, and Venezuela.-Uses:...

– Soldierwood

Colubrina cubensis – Cuban Nakedwood

Krugiodendron – Krugiodendrons

Krugiodendron ferreum

Krugiodendron ferreum

Krugiodendron ferreum, commonly known as the Black Ironwood or Leadwood, is a species of tree in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae. It is found in southern Florida, throughout the Caribbean and from southern Mexico to Honduras...

– Leadwood; Black Ironwood

Reynosia

Reynosia

Reynosia is a genus of plant in family Rhamnaceae.Species include:* Reynosia jamaicensis, M.C. Johnston...

– Reynosia Trees

Reynosia septentrionalis – Darling Plum; Red Ironwood

Rhamnus – Buckthorns

Rhamnus caroliniana

Rhamnus caroliniana

Rhamnus caroliniana , the Carolina Buckthorn, is an upright shrub or small tree native to the Southeastern United States. There is a local disjunct population in Mexico as well.-Characteristics:...

– Carolina Buckthorn; Polecat Tree

Rhamnus cathartica

Rhamnus cathartica

Rhamnus cathartica , is a species in the family Rhamnaceae, native to Europe, northwest Africa, and western Asia, from the central British Isles south to Morocco, and east to Kyrgyzstan...

– Common Buckthorn; European Buckthorn

Rhamnus frangula

Rhamnus frangula

Frangula alnus, syn. Rhamnus frangula, the Alder Buckthorn, is a tall deciduous shrub in the family Rhamnaceae. It is native to Europe, northernmost Africa, and western Asia, from Ireland and Great Britain north to 68°N in Scandinavia, east to central Siberia and Xinjiang in western China, and...

– Glossy Buckthorn

Rhamnus lanceolata – Lance-leaf Buckthorn

Rhamnus purshiana

Rhamnus purshiana

Rhamnus purshiana Rhamnus purshiana Rhamnus purshiana (Cascara Buckthorn, Cascara, Bearberry, and in the Chinook Jargon, Chittam or Chitticum; syn...

– Pursh; Cascara Buckthorn

Ziziphus

Ziziphus

Ziziphus is a genus of about 40 species of spiny shrubs and small trees in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae, distributed in the warm-temperate and subtropical regions throughout the world. The leaves are alternate, entire, with three prominent basal veins, and long; some species are deciduous,...

– Ziziphus Trees

Ziziphus jujuba – Jujube

Rhizophoraceae

Rhizophoraceae

Rhizophoraceae is a family constituted by tropical or subtropical flowering plants. Among the better known members are mangrove trees of the genus Rhizophora...

: The Mangrove Family

Rhizophora

Rhizophora

Rhizophora is a genus of tropical mangrove trees, sometimes collectively called true mangroves. The most notable species is the Red Mangrove but some other species and a few natural hybrids are known. Rhizophora species generally live in intertidal zones which are indundated daily by the ocean...

– True Mangroves

Rhizophora apiculata

Rhizophora apiculata

Rhizophora apiculata is a species of plant in the Rhizophoraceae family. It is found in Australia , Guam, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, the Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan,Maldives Thailand, Vanuatu, and Vietnam.Rhizophora...

– Bakau Minyak

Rhizophora mangle

Rhizophora mangle

Rhizophora mangle, known as the red mangrove, is distributed in estuarine ecosystems throughout the tropics. Its viviparous "seeds," in actuality called propagules, become fully mature plants before dropping off the parent tree...

– Red Mangrove

Rosaceae

Rosaceae

Rosaceae are a medium-sized family of flowering plants, including about 2830 species in 95 genera. The name is derived from the type genus Rosa. Among the largest genera are Alchemilla , Sorbus , Crataegus , Cotoneaster , and Rubus...

: The Rose Family

Amelanchier – Serviceberries (Juneberries or Shadbushes)

Amelanchier alnifolia – Saskatoon

Amelanchier amabilis

Amelanchier amabilis

Amelanchier amabilis, also known as Lovely shadbush , is a species of serviceberry. It can found from Quebec and Ontario to New York.-External links:* Info on this species.*...

– Lovely Shadbush

Amelanchier arborea – Downy Serviceberry

Amelanchier asiatica

Amelanchier asiatica

Amelanchier asiatica, commonly known as the Asian Serviceberry, is a shrub in the genus Amelanchier. It produces an edible fruit called a pome.-External links:*...

– Asian Serviceberry

Amelanchier bartramiana

Amelanchier bartramiana

Amelanchier bartramiana is a species of serviceberry. Common names include mountain serviceberry, Bartram's serviceberry, mountain juneberry, Bartram juneberry, and the oblongfruit serviceberry....

– Mountain Serviceberry; Alpine Serviceberry

Amelanchier canadensis

Amelanchier canadensis

Amelanchier canadensis is a species of Amelanchier native to eastern North America in Canada from Newfoundland west to southern Ontario, and in the United...

– Eastern Serviceberry; Shadblow Serviceberry

Amelanchier florida – Pacific Serviceberry

Amelanchier humilis

Amelanchier humilis

Amelanchier humilis, commonly known as the low shadbush, is a species of serviceberry. The plant is a shrub. The fruit, which is a pome, is edible and can be eaten raw or cooked. The fruit has a sweet taste, with slight apple flavor. The leaves are oval or broad shaped.-External links:***...

– Low Shadbush

Amelanchier interior

Amelanchier interior

Amelanchier interior is type of serviceberry shrub. It produces a sweet tasting edible fruit called a pome, which can be eaten raw or cooked. The fruit has a sweet flavor. This species is a deciduous tree....

– Wiegand’s Serviceberry

Amelanchier laevis

Amelanchier laevis

Amelanchier laevis is a small tree, growing up to 9m. The fruit, which are pomes, are edible and can be eaten raw or cooked. The fruit has a sweet flavor. The bark can be made into a herbal medicine for expectant mothers. It is a deciduous tree...

– Smooth Serviceberry; Allegheny Serviceberry

Amelanchier ovalis

Amelanchier ovalis

Amelanchier ovalis, commonly known as Snowy Mespilus, is serviceberry shrub. Its pome fruits are edible and can be eaten raw or cooked.-External links:**...

– Snowy Mespilus

Amelanchier sanguinea

Amelanchier sanguinea

Amelanchier sanguinea, known as red-twigged shadbush or roundleaf serviceberry, is a shrub native to eastern North America. It can grow up to 3 metres tall, and has edible sweet-flavored fruits that are red when young and become purple or dark-blue when they ripen. Like all Amelanchier fruit, these...

– Roundleaf Serviceberry; Red-twigged Serviceberry

Amelanchier sinica

Amelanchier sinica

Amelanchier sinica, commonly known as the Chinese Serviceberry, is a serviceberry native to China. Its fruit, called a pome is dark-blue when it ripens.-External links:*...

– Chinese Serviceberry

Amelanchier spicata

Amelanchier spicata

Amelanchier spicata, also referred to as the thicket shadbush, low juneberry, dwarf serviceberry, or low serviceberry , is a species of serviceberry that has edible fruit, which are really pomes. They can be eaten raw or cooked...

– Thicket Serviceberry; Dwarf Serviceberry

Amelanchier utahensis

Amelanchier utahensis

Amelanchier utahensis, the Utah serviceberry, is a shrub or small tree native to western North America. This serviceberry grows in varied habitats, from scrubby open slopes to woodlands and forests.-Description:...

– Utah Serviceberry

Aronia – Chokeberries

Aronia arbutifolia – Red Chokeberry

Aronia melanocarpa – Black Chokeberry

Chaenomeles

Chaenomeles

Chaenomeles is a genus of three species of deciduous spiny shrubs, usually 1–3 m tall, in the family Rosaceae. They are native to eastern Asia in Japan, China and Korea...

– Flowering Quinces

Chaenomeles cathayensis

Chaenomeles cathayensis

Chaenomeles cathayensis is a species of Japanese Quince. Its flowers can range from pink to white. The branches have thorns. The fruit is a pear-shaped pome. The fruit is edible but very tough when raw; cooking softens the flesh. They can be use in pies and to make jellies. The fruit is used as an...

– Chinese Flowering Quince

Chaenomeles japonica

Chaenomeles japonica

Chaenomeles japonica is a species of Japanese Quince. It is a thorny deciduous shrub that is commonly cultivated. It is shorter than another commonly cultivated species C. speciosa, growing to only about 1 m in height. The fruit is called in Japanese. It is best known for its colorful spring...

– Japanese Flowering Quince

Chaenomeles speciosa

Chaenomeles speciosa

Chaenomeles speciosa is a thorny deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub native to eastern Asia. It is taller than another commonly cultivated species, C. japonica, usually growing to about 2 m...

– Common Flowering Quince

Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster is a genus of woody plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, native to the Palaearctic region , with a strong concentration of diversity in the genus in the mountains of southwestern China and the Himalayas...

– Cotoneasters

Cotoneaster frigidus – Tree Cotoneaster

Crataegus

Crataegus

Crataegus , commonly called hawthorn or thornapple, is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the rose family, Rosaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia and North America. The name hawthorn was originally applied to the species native to northern Europe,...

– Hawthorns

Crataegus aestivalis – May Haw; May Hawthorn

Crataegus calpodendron

Crataegus calpodendron

Crataegus calpodendron is a species of hawthorn native to much of the eastern US and to Ontario, Canada. The common name late hawthorn refers to the flowering time, which is later than most North American hawthorns.-References and external links:...

– Pear Hawthorn

Crataegus chrysocarpa

Crataegus chrysocarpa

Crataegus chrysocarpa is a species of hawthorn that is native to much of the continental US and Canada. Common names fireberry hawthorn and goldenberry hawthorn, as well as the scientific name all refer to the colour of the unripe fruit, although the mature fruit is red.Three varieties C....

– Fireberry Hawthorn

Crataegus coccinea

Crataegus coccinea

Crataegus coccinea is a species of Hawthorn around which there is considerable confusion because the name has been misapplied for a long time. It has been shown to be the same as C. pedicellata, and under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, that older name Crataegus coccinea (common...

– Scarlet Hawthorn

Crataegus columbiana

Crataegus columbiana

The name Crataegus columbiana is a source of considerable confusion. The species named by Howell is now considered to be the same as C. douglasii, named earlier, and the earlier name should be used instead. However, some varieties of C. columbiana have also been named that are not related to C....

– Columbia Hawthorn

Crataegus crus-galli

Crataegus crus-galli

Crataegus crus-galli is a species of hawthorn known by the common names cockspur hawthorn and cockspur thorn. It is native to eastern North America from Ontario to Texas to Florida, and it is widely used in horticulture. This is a small tree growing up to about 10 meters tall and 8 meters wide,...

– Cockspur Hawthorn

Crataegus douglasii

Crataegus douglasii

Crataegus douglasii is a North American species of hawthorn known by the common names black hawthorn and Douglas' thornapple. It is named after David Douglas, who collected seed from the plant during his botanical explorations....

– Black Hawthorn; Douglas Hawthorn

Crataegus flabellata

Crataegus flabellata

Crataegus flabellata is a species of hawthorn known by the common name fanleaf hawthorn. It is native to the northeastern U.S. and adjacent Canada. It is intermediate in appearance between C. macrosperma and C. chrysocarpa. C. macrosperma, which occurs throughout the range of C. flabellata and also...

– Fanleaf Hawthorn

Crataegus flava

Crataegus flava

Crataegus flava, summer haw, yellow-fruited thorn is a very rare species of hawthorn that was long known in cultivation in England but apparently is no longer grown. Unfortunately, due to an error by Sargent the name C. flava was, and often still is, used for a different species C. lacrimata, which...

– Southern Hawthorn; Yellow Hawthorn

Crataegus marshallii

Crataegus marshallii

Crataegus marshallii is a species of hawthorn known by the common name parsley haw. It is native to the southeastern U.S.The leaves of C. marshallii are finely dissected and decorative. The dainty flowers, small red fruit, and beautiful bark add to the ornamental value of this...

– Parsley Hawthorn

Crataegus mollis

Crataegus mollis

Crataegus mollis, known as Downy Hawthorn or Red Hawthorn, occurs in eastern North America from southeastern North Dakota east to Nova Scotia and southwest to eastern Texas. This tree inhabits wooded bottomlands, the prairie border, and the midwest savanna understorey.This tree grows to 10–13 m...

– Downy Hawthorn

Crataegus monogyna – English Hawthorn; One-seeded Hawthorn

Crataegus phaenopyrum

Crataegus phaenopyrum

Crataegus phaenopyrum is a species of hawthorn commonly known as Washington Hawthorn or Washington Thorn. It is widely grown as an ornamental plant, and can reach 10 m in height. The small red berry-like fruit grow closely together in large clusters and are food for squirrels and birds. They have a...

– Washington Hawthorn

Crataegus punctata

Crataegus punctata

Crataegus punctata is a species of hawthorn known by the common names dotted hawthorn or white haw that is native to most of the eastern U.S. and eastern Canada. It is the state flower of Missouri....

– Dotted Hawthorn; Whitehaw

Crataegus spathulata

Crataegus spathulata

Crataegus spathulata is a species hawthorn known by the common name littlehip hawthorn. It is native to the southeastern US. It has very attractive small delicate leaves with a bluish appearance, pretty flowers and small orange to red fruit....

– Spatulate Hawthorn

Crataegus succulenta

Crataegus succulenta

Crataegus succulenta is a species of hawthorn known by the common names fleshy hawthorn and succulent hawthorn. It is "the most wide-ranging hawthorn in North America", native to much of southern Canada, and the United States as far south as Arizona, New Mexico, Kansas, Missouri, North Carolina,...

– Succulent Hawthorn; Fleshy Hawthorn

Crataegus uniflora

Crataegus uniflora

Crataegus uniflora is a species of hawthorn known by the common name one-flowered hawthorn, or dwarf hawthorn. It is native to parts of the southeastern US. The plant is usually a small bush, but some forms can be a few meters tall. The flowers occur singly or in small clusters. The fruit are hairy...

– Single-flower Hawthorn; Dwarf Hawthorn

Cydonia

Cydonia

Cydonia may refer to:* Cydonia , the goddess of heroic endeavour in Greek mythology* 1106 Cydonia, a main belt asteroid* Cydonia, Crete* Cydonia , a 2001 album by The Orb...

– Mediterranean Quince

Cydonia oblonga – Quince

Eriobotrya

Eriobotrya

Eriobotrya is a genus of about ten species of large evergreen shrubs and small trees in the family Rosaceae, native to east and southeast Asia.-Species:By far the best known species is the Loquat, E...

– Loquats

Eriobotrya deflexa

Eriobotrya deflexa

Eriobotrya deflexa is a tree native to Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan, and South Vietnam.-Coppertone Loquat:The Coppertone Loquat is a hybrid of Eriobotrya deflexa and Indian Hawthorn and is a popular shrub in the Southern United States and California....

– Bronze Loquat

Eriobotrya japonica – Japanese Loquat; Japanese Medlar

Lyonothamnus

Lyonothamnus

Lyonothamnus is a monotypic genus of trees in the rose family containing the single species Lyonothamnus floribundus, which is known by the common name Catalina ironwood, and the subspecies ssp. aspleniifolius and ssp...

– Lyonothamnus Trees

Lyonothamnus floribundus – Catalina Ironwood

Malus

Malus

Malus , the apples, are a genus of about 30–35 species of small deciduous trees or shrubs in the family Rosaceae. Other studies go as far as 55 species including the domesticated Orchard Apple, or Table apple as it was formerly called...

– Apples and Crabapples

Malus angustifolia

Malus angustifolia

Malus angustifolia, or Southern crabapple, is a species of crabapple. The fruit is astringent and acidic and is not palatable when raw. The fruit can be use to make jellies, jams and food preserves. The fruits are small and have an aromatic scent and a pear-like shape. It is a tree that is grown as...

– Southern Crabapple

Malus baccata

Malus baccata

Malus baccata is a species of apple known by the common names Siberian crabapple, Siberian crab, Manchurian crab apple and Chinese crab apple. It is native to most of Asia, but is also grown elsewhere as an ornamental tree and for rootstock. It is used for bonsai in Japan...

– Siberian Crabapple

Malus coronaria

Malus coronaria

Malus coronaria, also known by the names sweet crabapple or garland crab, is a North American species of Malus . It often is a bushy shrub with rigid, contorted branches, but frequently becomes a small tree with a broad open head. It prefers rich moist soil and is most abundant east of the...

– Sweet Crabapple

Malus domestica – Orchard Apple

Malus floribunda

Malus floribunda

Malus floribunda, or Japanese flowering crabapple, originates from Japan and East Asia. It may be a wild species, or a hybrid of M. sieboldii x M. baccata....

– Japanese Flowering Crabapple

Malus fusca

Malus fusca

Malus fusca is a species of crabapple. It is native to western North America from Alaska to California, where it grows in coniferous forests. The fruits are small round apple-shaped pomes....

– Oregon Crabapple; Pacific Crabapple

Malus ioensis

Malus ioensis

Malus ioensis, or the prairie crabapple, is a species of crabapple tree native to the United States. The most common variety, Malus ioensis var. ioensis, is found primarily in the prairie regions of the upper Mississippi Valley. Another variety, Malus ioensis var...

– Prairie Crabapple

Malus sieversii

Malus sieversii

Malus sieversii is a wild apple native to the mountains of Central Asia in southern Kazakhstan, eastern Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Northern Afghanistan and Xinjiang, China. It has recently been shown to be the sole ancestor of most cultivars of the domesticated apple...

– Asian Wild Apple

Malus sylvestris

Malus sylvestris

Malus sylvestris, the European wild apple, is a species of Malus , native to Europe from as far south as Spain, Italy and Greece to as far north as Scandinavia and Russia. Its scientific name means "forest apple", and the truly wild tree has thorns.In the past, M. sylvestris was thought to be an...

– European Wild Apple

Mespilus – Medlars

Mespilus canescens – Stern’s Medlar

Mespilus germanica – Common Medlar

Photinia

Photinia

Photinia is a genus of about 40-60 species of small trees and large shrubs in the Rosaceae family. As interpreted here, they are restricted to warm temperate Asia, from the Himalaya east to Japan and south to India and Thailand, but some botanists also include the closely related North American...

– Photinias

Photinia davidiana – Stranvaesia Photinia; David’s Photinia

Photinia glabra

Photinia glabra

Photinia glabra is a species in the family Rosaceae.-References and external links:*...

– Japanese Photinia

Photinia serrulata – Chinese Photinia

Photinia x fraseri – Red Tip Photinia; Red Tip

Prunus

Prunus

Prunus is a genus of trees and shrubs, which includes the plums, cherries, peaches, apricots and almonds. There are around 430 species spread throughout the northern temperate regions of the globe. Many members of the genus are widely cultivated for fruit and ornament.-Botany:Members of the genus...

– Cherries, Plums, Peaches, Apricots, Almonds and Cherry Laurels

Prunus alleghaniensis

Prunus alleghaniensis

The Allegheny Plum is a species of New World plum, native to North America.-Identification:The leaves are two to three and a half inches long, the tip is usually long and pointed. The leaf margins are finely toothed. The twigs sometimes have thorns. The bark is fissured in older specimens.The...

– Allegheny Plum

Prunus americana

Prunus americana

Prunus americana, commonly called the American Plum, Wild Plum, or Marshall's Large Yellow Sweet Plum, is a species of Prunus native to North America from Saskatchewan to New Mexico east to New Hampshire and Florida. It has often been planted outside its core range and sometimes escapes cultivation...

– American Plum

Prunus amygdalus – Almond

Prunus andersonii

Prunus andersonii

Prunus andersonii is a species of shrub in the rose family, part of the same genus as the peach, cherry, and almond. Its common names include desert peach and desert almond. It is native to eastern California and western Nevada, where it grows in forests and scrub in desert and mountains...

– Desert Peach

Prunus angustifolia

Prunus angustifolia

Prunus angustifolia pronounced , known commonly as Chickasaw Plum, Cherokee plum, Florida sand plum, sandhill plum, or sand plum, is a plum bearing tree native to North America. It was originally cultivated by Native Americans before the arrival of Europeans...

– Chickasaw Plum

Prunus armeniaca – Apricot

Prunus avium

Prunus avium

Prunus avium, commonly called wild cherry, sweet cherry, bird cherry, or gean, is a species of cherry, native to Europe, west Turkey, northwest Africa, and western Asia, from the British Isles south to Morocco and Tunisia, north to the Trondheimsfjord region in Norway and east to the Caucasus, and...

– Sweet Cherry

Prunus capollin – Capulin

Prunus caroliniana

Prunus caroliniana

Prunus caroliniana, known as the Carolina Cherry Laurel, with syns. Cherry Laurel, Carolina Cherry, Laurelcherry or Wild Mock Orange, is a flowering tree native to the Southeastern United States, from North Carolina south to Florida and westward to eastern Texas. It was once classified as...

– Carolina Cherry Laurel

Prunus cerasifera – Cherry Plum

Prunus cerasus – Sour Cherry

Prunus domestica

Prunus domestica

Prunus domestica is a Prunus species with many varieties. These are often called "plums" in common English, though not all plums belong to this species. Its hybrid parentage is believed to be Prunus spinosa and Prunus cerasifera var. divaricata...

– Garden Plum

Prunus emarginata – Bitter Cherry

Prunus fasciculata

Prunus fasciculata

Prunus fasciculata, also known as wild almond, desert almond, or desert peach is a spiny and woody shrub producing wild almonds, native to the deserts of Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah....

– Desert Almond

Prunus fremontii

Prunus fremontii

Prunus fremontii is a shrub or small tree reaching up to five meters in height, known by the common name desert apricot. It takes its scientific name from John C. Frémont. It is found in southwestern North America in north and western Baja California especially, mostly Pacific and western, and the...

– Desert Apricot

Prunus hortulana – Prairie Plum; Hortulana Plum

Prunus ilicifolia

Prunus ilicifolia

Prunus ilicifolia is an evergreen shrub to tree, producing edible cherries, with shiny and spiny toothed leaves similar in appearance to holly...

– Holly-leaved Cherry

Prunus insititia – Damson Plum; Bullace

Prunus laurocerasus – Common Cherry Laurel

Prunus lusitanica

Prunus lusitanica

Prunus lusitanica, with common name Portugal laurel, is a species of cherry, native to southwestern France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, and Macaronesia .-Distribution:...

– Portuguese Cherry Laurel

Prunus lyonii – Catalina Cherry

Prunus maackii

Prunus maackii

Prunus maackii, commonly called the Manchurian cherry or Amur chokecherry, is a species of cherry native to Korea and both banks of the Amur River, in Manchuria in northeastern China, and Amur Oblast and Primorye in southeastern Russia....

– Amur Chokecherry

Prunus mahaleb

Prunus mahaleb

Prunus mahaleb is a species of cherry native to central and southern Europe, western and central Asia, and northwest Africa, from Morocco north to France, southern Belgium, and Germany, and east to northern Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan.It is a deciduous tree or large...

– Mahaleb

Prunus maritima – Beach Plum

Prunus mexicana

Prunus mexicana

Prunus mexicana, commonly known as the Mexican Plum, is a species of plum tree that is found in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States as well as Northern Mexico. Its native range stretches from South Dakota and Ohio in the north to as far south as Alabama and Coahuila. Mexican Plum is...

– Mexican Plum

Prunus munsoniana – Wild Goose Plum

Prunus myrtifolia – Myrtle-leaved Cherry Laurel

Prunus nigra

Prunus nigra

Prunus nigra is a species of Prunus, native to eastern North America from New Brunswick west to southeastern Manitoba, and south to Connecticut across to Iowa...

– Canada Plum

Prunus padus – Bird Cherry

Prunus pensylvanica – Pin Cherry; Fire Cherry

Prunus persica – Peach

Prunus pumila

Prunus pumila

Prunus pumila, commonly called sand cherry, Bessey cherry, dwarf cherry, eastern sand cherry, Great Lakes sand cherry, prostrate dwarf cherry, Rocky Mountain cherry, or western sand cherry, is a species of Prunus native to eastern and central North America, from New Brunswick west to Ontario and...

– Sand Cherry

Prunus salicifolia – Willow-leaf Cherry

Prunus serotina – Black Cherry

Prunus serrulata

Prunus serrulata

Prunus serrulata or Japanese Cherry; also called Hill Cherry, Oriental Cherry or East Asian Cherry, is a species of cherry native to Japan, Korea and China. It is known for its spring cherry blossom displays and festivals....

– Japanese Cherry

Prunus spinosa

Prunus spinosa

Prunus spinosa is a species of Prunus native to Europe, western Asia, and locally in northwest Africa. It is also locally naturalised in New Zealand and eastern North America....

– European Sloe

Prunus subcordata

Prunus subcordata

Prunus subcordata, known by the common names Klamath plum, Oregon plum, and Sierra plum, is a member of the genus Prunus , native to the west coast of the Western United States in California and western and southern Oregon...

– Sierra Plum

Prunus subhirtella

Prunus subhirtella

Prunus subhirtella, sometimes also called Spring Cherry, Higan cherry, or Rosebud cherry is a small tree originating in Japan, but unknown in the wild. It is probably of hybrid origin between Prunus incisa and Prunus spachiana....

– Autumn Cherry

Prunus umbellata – Flatwoods Plum; Hog Plum

Prunus virginiana – Chokecherry

Pseudocydonia

Pseudocydonia

Pseudocydonia sinensis , the only species in the genus Pseudocydonia, is a deciduous or semi-evergreen tree in the family Rosaceae, native to eastern Asia in China. It is closely related to the east Asian genus Chaenomeles, and is sometimes placed in Chaenomeles as C...

– Oriental Quinces

Pseudocydonia sinensis – Chinese Quince

Pyracantha

Pyracantha

Pyracantha is a genus of thorny evergreen large shrubs in the family Rosaceae, with common names Firethorn or Pyracantha. They are native to an area extending from Southeast Europe east to Southeast Asia, resemble and are related to Cotoneaster, but have serrated leaf margins and numerous thorns...

– Firethorns

Pyracantha coccinea

Pyracantha coccinea

Pyracantha coccinea is the European species of Firethorn that has been cultivated in gardens since the late 16th century. The tree has small white flowers. It produces small, bright red berries. The fruit is bitter and astringent, making it inedible when raw. The fruit can be cooked to make...

– Scarlet Firethorn

Pyrus – Pears

Pyrus calleryiana – Callery Pear; Bradford Pear

Pyrus communis – Common Pear

Pyrus cordata – Plymouth Pear

Pyrus cossonii – Algerian Pear

Pyrus elaeagrifolia – Oleaster-leaf Pear

Pyrus kawakamii – Kawakam Pear; Kawakam Evergreen Pear

Pyrus koehnei – Koehne Pear; Koehne Evergreen Pear

Pyrus nivalis

Pyrus nivalis

Pyrus nivalis, commonly known as the "snow pear", is a type of pear that grows naturally from south-east Europe to western Asia. Like most pears, its fruit can be eaten raw or cooked; they have a mild sour taste. The plant is very colorful and may grow to a height of up to 10 meters and a width of...

– Snow Pear

Pyrus pashia

Pyrus pashia

The Wild Himalayan Pear, Pyrus pashia, is a small to medium size deciduous tree of the small and oval shaped crown with ovate, finely toothed leaves, attractive white flowers with red anthers and small pear-like fruits. It is a fruit bearing tree that is native to southern Asia...

– Afghan Pear

Pyrus pyrifolia

Pyrus pyrifolia

Pyrus pyrifolia is a pear tree species native to China, Japan, and Korea. The tree's edible fruit is known by many names, including: Asian pear, Chinese pear, Korean pear, Japanese pear, Taiwan pear, and sand pear.....

– Sand Pear; Asian Pear; Nashi Pear

Pyrus salicifolia

Pyrus salicifolia

Pyrus salicifolia is a species of pear, native to the Middle East. It is also widely grown as an ornamental tree, almost always as a pendulous cultivar, and is called by various common names, including Willow-leafed Pear, Willowleaf Pear, Weeping Pear, and similar...

– Willow-leaf Pear; Weeping Pear

Pyrus ussuriensis – Siberian Pear; Chinese Fragrant Pear

Rhaphiolepis

Rhaphiolepis

Rhaphiolepis syn. Raphiolepis Lindl.) is a genus of about 15 species of evergreen shrubs and small trees in the family Rosaceae, native to warm temperate and subtropical eastern and southeastern Asia, from southern Japan, southern Korea and southern China south to Thailand and Vietnam. The genus is...

– Rhaphiolepis Trees

Rhaphiolepis indica

Rhaphiolepis indica

Indian Hawthorn or India Hawthorn is an evergreen shrub in the family Rosaceae. The species is from southern China, grown for its decorative pink flowers, and is popular in bonsai culture. The fruit is edible when cooked, and can be used to make jam.Indian Hawthorn is a mainstay horticultural...

– Indian Hawthorn
Sorbus

Sorbus

Sorbus is a genus of about 100–200 species of trees and shrubs in the subfamily Maloideae of the Rose family Rosaceae. Species of Sorbus are commonly known as whitebeam, rowan, service tree, and mountain ash...

– Mountain Ashes and Rowans

Sorbus americana

Sorbus americana

The tree species Sorbus americana is commonly known as the American Mountain-ash. It is a relatively small deciduous perennial tree, native to eastern northern North America....

– American Mountain Ash

Sorbus aria

Sorbus aria

Sorbus aria , the Whitebeam or Common Whitebeam is a deciduous tree, compact and domed, with few upswept branches; it generally favours dry limestone and chalk soils. The hermaphrodite cream-white flowers appear in May, are insect pollinated, and go on to produce scarlet berries, which are often...

– Whitebeam

Sorbus aucuparia

Sorbus aucuparia

Sorbus aucuparia , is a species of the genus Sorbus, native to most of Europe except for the far south, and northern Asia...

– European Mountain Ash; Common Rowan

Sorbus cashmiriana

Sorbus cashmiriana

Sorbus cashmiriana , is a species of rowan native to the western Himalaya, including in Kashmir.It is a small, usually short-lived deciduous tree growing to 6–8 m tall, with a trunk up to 25 cm diameter. The bark is smooth grey or red-grey...

– Kashmir Rowan

Sorbus decora

Sorbus decora

Sorbus decora, commonly known as the showy mountain-ash or "dogberry" is a deciduous shrub or very small tree native to northeastern North America. It occurs throughout the Great Lakes-St...

– Showy Mountain Ash

Sorbus sitchensis

Sorbus sitchensis

Sorbus sitchensis, also known as Sitka Mountain-ash, is a small shrub of the western United States.-Description:A multistemmed shrub, it is indigenous to the Pacific Coast of North America, from Alaska to northern California and eastward to Idaho and western Montana.The otherwise similar Sorbus...

– Sitka Mountain Ash; Pacific Mountain Ash

Spiraea

Spiraea

Spiraea , is a genus of about 80-100 species of shrubs in the family Rosaceae, subfamily Spiraeoideae. They are native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere, with the greatest diversity in eastern Asia....

– Spirea Trees and Shrubs

Spiraea nipponica – Nippon Spiraea; Snowmound

Rubiaceae

Rubiaceae

The Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the coffee family, madder family, or bedstraw family. The group contains many commonly known plants, including the economically important coffee , quinine , and gambier , and the horticulturally valuable madder , west indian jasmine ,...

: The Madder Family

Caffea – Coffee Trees

Caffea arabica – Coffee; Ethiopian Coffee

Casasia

Casasia

Casasia is a flowering plant genus in the family Rubiaceae. These shrubs or small trees occur on the Caribbean islands and in one case in Florida.Some of the ten accepted species were formerly placed elsewhere, e.g...

– Casasia Trees

Casasia clusiifolia – Sever-year Apple

Cephalanthus

Cephalanthus

Cephalanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the madder family, Rubiaceae. Different authorities accept between six and 15 species, which are commonly known as Buttonbushes. Cephalanthus occidentalis is native to the southeastern United States. The others occur in tropical regions of the...

– Cephalanthus Trees

Cephalanthus occidentalis

Cephalanthus occidentalis

Cephalanthus occidentalis is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family, Rubiaceae, that is native to eastern and southern North America. Common names include Buttonbush, Common Buttonbush, Button-willow and Honey-bells....

– Button Bush

Cinchona

Cinchona

Cinchona or Quina is a genus of about 38 species in the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical South America. They are large shrubs or small trees growing 5–15 metres in height with evergreen foliage. The leaves are opposite, rounded to lanceolate and 10–40 cm long. The flowers are white, pink...

– Cinchona Trees

Cinchona pubescens

Cinchona pubescens

Cinchona pubescens is known for its bark's high quinine content- and has similar uses to Cinchona officinalis in the production of quinine, most famously used for treatment of malaria . Its native range spans Costa Rica, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. In Ecuador, C...

– Quinine Tree

Exostema

Exostema

Exostema is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It consists of trees and shrubs, endemic to the neotropics, with most of the species occurring in the West Indies. Estimates of the number of species range from 25 to 44....

– Exostema Trees

Exostema caribaeum – Princewood; Caribbean Princewood

Guettarda

Guettarda

Guettarda is a plant genus in the family Rubiaceae. Most of these plants are known by the common name Velvetseed. Estimates of the number of species range from about 50 to 162. Most of the species are neotropical. Twenty are found in New Caledonia and one reaches Australia...

– Velvetseeds

Guettarda elliptica – Oval-leaf Velvetseed

Guettarda scabra – Rough-leaf Velvetseed

Hamelia

Hamelia

Hamelia is a genus of flowering plants in the coffee family, Rubiaceae. The name honors French botanist Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau .-Selected species:* Hamelia axillaris Sw. – Guayabo Negro* Hamelia cuprea Griseb....

– Hamelia Bushes

Hamelia patens

Hamelia patens

Hamelia patens is a large perennial shrub or small tree in the coffee family, Rubiaceae, that is native to the American subtropics and tropics. Its range extends from Florida in the southern United States to as far south as Argentina...

– Firebush; Hummingbird Bush

Morinda

Morinda

Morinda is a genus of flowering plants in the madder family, Rubiaceae. The generic name is derived from the Latin words morus, meaning "mulberry," and indica, meaning "of India," referring to the shape of the fruits. -Description:...

– Morindas or False Mulberry Trees

Morinda citrifolia – Tahitian Noni; Great Morinda; Indian Mulberry; Beach Mulberry

Pinckneya – Pinckneya Trees

Pinckneya pubens – Pinckneya; Fevertree; Feverbark Tree

Rutaceae

Rutaceae

Rutaceae, commonly known as the rue or citrus family, is a family of flowering plants, usually placed in the order Sapindales.Species of the family generally have flowers that divide into four or five parts, usually with strong scents...

: The Citrus Family

Calodendrum

Calodendrum

Calodendrum is a genus of medium-sized evergreen trees comprising two species from Africa. Calodendrum capense is a well known tree that is widely cultivated, while Calodendrum eickii is a rare forest tree from Tanzania. The botanical name comes from Greek, kalos means beautiful and dendrum means...

– Calodendrum Trees

Calodendrum capense

Calodendrum capense

Calodendrum capense is an African tree which was first studied at The Cape in South Africa and cultivated widely for its prolific flower display...

– Cape Chestnut

Citrus

Citrus

Citrus is a common term and genus of flowering plants in the rue family, Rutaceae. Citrus is believed to have originated in the part of Southeast Asia bordered by Northeastern India, Myanmar and the Yunnan province of China...

– Oranges, Lemons, Limes, Grapefruits, and Kumquats

Citrus aurantiifolia – Lime

Citrus aurantium – Sour Orange

Citrus grandis – Shaddock; Pumelo

Citrus japonica (Fortunella japonica

Fortunella japonica

Citrus japonica 'Japonica is a species of Kumquat. It is an evergreen tree. It produces edible golden-yellow colored fruit. The fruit is small and usually round but can be oval shaped. The peel has a sweet flavor but the fruit has a sour center. The fruit can be eaten raw and but mainly used to...

) – Kumquat

Citrus limon – Lemon

Citrus medica – Citron

Citrus paradisi – Grapefruit

Citrus reticulata – Mandarin

Citrus sinensis – Sweet Orange

Poncirus – Astringent Oranges

Poncirus trifoliata – Trifoliate Orange

Ptelea – Ptelea Trees

Ptelea trifoliata – Hop Tree

Zanthoxylum

Zanthoxylum

Zanthoxylum is a genus of about 250 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs in the citrus or rue family, Rutaceae, native to warm temperate and subtropical areas worldwide. Common names include Prickly-ash and Hercules' Club.The fruit of several species are used to make the spice...

– Prickly Ashes

Zanthoxylum americanum

Zanthoxylum americanum

Zanthoxylum americanum, the Common Prickly-ash, Common Pricklyash, Common Prickly Ash or Northern Prickly-ash , is an aromatic shrub or small tree native to central and eastern portions of the United States and Canada...

– American Prickly Ash

Zanthoxylum clava-herculis

Zanthoxylum clava-herculis

Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, the Hercules' Club , pepperwood, or Southern prickly ash, is a spiny tree or shrub native to the southeastern United States. It grows to 10-17 m tall and has distinctive spined thick, corky lumps 2-3 cm long on the bark...

– Hercules’ Club

Zanthoxylum coriaceum – Biscayne Prickly Ash

Zanthoxylum fagara

Zanthoxylum fagara

Zanthoxylum fagara is a species of flowering plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae that is native to southern Florida and Texas in the United States, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America as far south as Paraguay...

– Wild-lime Prickly Ash

Zanthoxylum flavum

Zanthoxylum flavum

Zanthoxylum flavum is a medium-sized tree in the citrus family, Rutaceae. Common names include Noyer,West Indian Satinwood, Yellow Sanders, Tembetaria, and Yellow Sandalwood...

– Satinwood

Zanthoxylum martinicense – White Prickly Ash; Espino Rubial; Pino Macho

Salicaceae

Salicaceae

Salicaceae are a family of flowering plants. Recent genetic studies summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has greatly expanded the circumscription of the family to contain 55 genera....

: The Willow Family

Populus – Poplars, Cottonwoods, and Aspens

Populus alba – White Poplar

Populus angustifolia

Populus angustifolia

Populus angustifolia is a species of poplar tree known by the common names Narrowleaf Cottonwood and Willow-leaved Poplar. This tree is native to the Great Basin in the United States where it is most often found by streams and creeks at some elevation.The tree is slim in profile, with yellow-green...

– Narrowleaf Cottonwood

Populus balsamifera

Populus balsamifera

Populus balsamifera, commonly called balsam poplar, bamtree, eastern balsam poplar, hackmatack, tacamahac poplar, tacamahaca,...

– Balsam Poplar

Populus candicans – Balm of Gilead

Populus canescens – Gray Aspen

Populus deltoides deltoides – Eastern Cottonwood

Eastern Cottonwood

Populus deltoides, the eastern cottonwood, is a cottonwood poplar native to North America, growing throughout the eastern, central, and southwestern United States, the southernmost part of eastern Canada, and northeastern Mexico.-Description:...

Populus deltoides monilifera – Plains Cottonwood

Populus grandidentata

Populus grandidentata

Populus grandidentata — the large-tooth, or big-tooth, aspen — is a deciduous tree native to eastern North America.-Name:...

– Bigtooth Aspen

Populus heterophylla

Populus heterophylla

Populus heterophylla, known as the Swamp Cottonwood, also called the River Cottonwood, Downy Poplar, Swamp Poplar, or Black Cottonwood which is actually Populus trichocarpa, is a large deciduous Poplar belonging to section Leucoides of the larger Salindaceae family, found in wet bottom land...

– Swamp Cottonwood

Populus nigra – Lombardy Poplar; Black Poplar

Populus simonii – Simon Poplar

Populus tremuloides

Populus tremuloides

Populus tremuloides is a deciduous tree native to cooler areas of North America, commonly called quaking aspen, trembling aspen, American aspen, and Quakies,. The trees have tall trunks, up to 25 metres, with smooth pale bark, scarred with black. The glossy green leaves, dull beneath, become golden...

– Quaking Aspen

Populus trichocarpa

Populus trichocarpa

Populus trichocarpa is a deciduous broadleaf tree species native to western North America. It is used for timber, and is notable as a model organism in plant biology. Its full genome sequence was published in 2006...

– Black Cottonwood

Populus x acuminata – Lanceleaf Cottonwood

Populus x canadensis – Canada Poplar

Salix – Willows

Salix alaxensis – Feltleaf Willow

Salix alba – White Willow

Salix amygdaloides – Peachleaf Willow; Almondleaf Willow

Salix arbusculoides – Littletree Willow

Salix babylonica – Weeping Willow; Chinese Weeping Willow

Salix bebbiana

Salix bebbiana

Salix bebbiana is a species of Willow that is indigenous to Canada and the northern United States, from Alaska and Yukon south to California and Arizona and north-east to Newfoundland and New England...

– Bebb Willow

Salix caprea – Goat Willow

Salix caroliniana

Salix caroliniana

Salix caroliniana, commonly known as the coastal plain willow, is a shrub or small tree native to the southeastern United States, Mexico and parts of Central America and the Caribbean. It is an obligate wetland species and grows as an emergent species in the Everglades. In the absence of fire, S....

– Coastal Plain Willow; Carolina Willow

Salix daphnoides – Daphne Willow; Violet Willow

Salix discolor

Salix discolor

Salix discolor is a species of willow native to North America, one of two species commonly called Pussy Willow.It is native to the northern forests and wetlands of Canada and the northeastern contiguous United States .It is a weak-wooded deciduous shrub or...

– Pussy Willow

Salix eriocephala – Heartleaf Willow

Salix exigua

Salix exigua

Salix exigua Salix exigua Salix exigua (Sandbar Willow, Narrowleaf Willow, or Coyote Willow; syn. S. argophylla, S. hindsiana, S. interior, S. linearifolia, S. luteosericea, S. malacophylla, S. nevadensis, S...

– Sandbar Willow

Salix floridana

Salix floridana

Salix floridana is a species of willow in the family Salicaceae. It is native to the southeastern United States in northern Florida and southwestern Georgia.It is a deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 6 m tall...

– Florida Willow

Salix fragilis – Crack Willow

Salix glaucophylloides – Dune Willow; Broadleaf Willow

Salix hookeriana

Salix hookeriana

Salix hookeriana is a species of willow known by the common names dune willow, coastal willow, and Hooker's willow. It is native to the west coast of North America from Alaska to northern California, where it grows in coastal habitat such as beaches, marshes, floodplains, and canyons...

– Hooker Willow; Coast Willow

Salix lasiandra – Pacific Willow; Western Black Willow; Yellow Willow; Whiplash Willow

Salix lasiolepis

Salix lasiolepis

Salix lasiolepis is a species of willow native to western and southwestern North America, in the United States from central and southern Washington and southwestern Idaho south to California and Texas, and in Mexico from the Baja California peninsula east to Coahuila and south to Jalisco. The name...

– Arroyo Willow

Salix lucida

Salix lucida

Salix lucida is a species of willow native to northern and western North America, occurring in wetland habitats....

– Glossy Willow; Shiny Willow

Salix monticola – Mountain Willow

Salix nigra – Black Willow

Salix pellita – Satiny Willow

Salix pentandra – Laurel Willow; Bay-leaved Willow

Salix petiolaris – Meadow Willow

Salix prolixa

Salix prolixa

Salix prolixa is a species of willow known by the common name MacKenzie's willow. It is native to western North America from Alaska and northwestern Canada to the high mountains of California and Utah. It grows in moist habitat such as riverbanks, springs, and marshes. It is a shrub growing 1 to 5...

– Mackenzie Willow

Salix purpurea – Purple Osier Willow; Basket Willow

Salix pyrifolia – Balsam Willow

Salix scouleriana

Salix scouleriana

Salix scouleriana Salix scouleriana Salix scouleriana (Scouler's Willow; syn. S. brachystachys Benth., S. capreoides Anderss., S. flavescens Nutt., S. nuttallii Sarg., S...

– Scouler Willow; Fire Willow; Mountain Willow

Salix sericea

Salix sericea

Salix sericea, also known as silky willow, is a shrub in the Salicaceae family that grows in swamps and along rivers in eastern United States and Canada...

– Silky Willow; Satin Willow

Salix sitchensis

Salix sitchensis

Salix sitchensis is a species of willow known by the common name Sitka willow. It is native to northwestern North America from Alaska to northern California to Montana. It is a common to abundant plant in many types of coastal and inland wetland habitat, such as marshes, riverbanks, swamps, coastal...

– Sitka Willow

Salix viminalis – Osier Willow; Basket Willow

Salix x sepulcralis "Chrysocoma" – Golden Weeping Willow

Sapindaceae

Sapindaceae

Sapindaceae, also known as the soapberry family, is a family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales. There are about 140-150 genera with 1400-2000 species, including maple, horse chestnut and lychee....

: The Soapberry Family

Cupania

Cupania

Cupania is a plant genus in the family Sapindaceae.-List of species:* C. alternifolia* C. americana* C. glabra* C. guatemalensis* C. vernalis-See also:* List of plants of Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil...

– Toadwoods

Cupania glabra – Florida Toadwood

Cupaniopsis

Cupaniopsis

Cupaniopsis is a genus of about 60 species of shrubs and trees in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. They are native to New Guinea, New Caledonia, Australia and Fiji. In Australia, they are commonly known as tuckeroos. Carrotwood Cupaniopsis is a genus of about 60 species of shrubs and trees in the...

– Cupaniopsis Trees

Cupaniopsis anacardioides

Cupaniopsis anacardioides

Cupaniopsis anacardioides, with common names Tuckeroo, Carrotwood, Beach Tamarind and Green-leaved Tamarind,is a species of flowering tree in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae, that is native to eastern and northern Australia. The usual habitat is littoral rainforest on sand or near estuaries...

– Carrotwood

Dodonaea

Dodonaea

Dodonaea is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plants in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae, with a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia and Australasia. By far the highest species diversity is in Australia...

– Dodonaea Trees

Dodonaea viscose – Varnish Leaf

Exothea – Exothea Trees

Exothea paniculata – Butterbough; Inkwood

Hypelate – Hypelate Shrubs

Hypelate trifoliata – White Ironwood

Koelreuteria

Koelreuteria

Koelreuteria is a genus of three species in the family Sapindaceae, native to southern and eastern Asia.They are medium-sized deciduous trees growing to 10–20 m tall, with spirally arranged pinnate or bipinnate leaves. The flowers are small and yellow, produced in large branched panicles...

– Koelreuteria Trees

Koelreuteria bipinnata

Koelreuteria bipinnata

Koelreuteria bipinnata, also known as is a species of Koelreuteria native to Asia, particularly to China. It is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree growing between 10–20 meters tall. They are also one of the few trees that bloom in the summer...

– Chinese Flame Tree

Koelreuteria paniculata

Koelreuteria paniculata

Koelreuteria paniculata, with the common name Goldenrain tree, is a species of Koelreuteria native to eastern Asia, in China and Korea...

– Goldenrain Tree

Litchi – Litchi Fruit Trees

Litchi chinensis – Litchi

Sapindus

Sapindus

Sapindus is a genus of about five to twelve species of shrubs and small trees in the Lychee family, Sapindaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions in both the Old World and New World. The genus includes both deciduous and evergreen species. Members of the genus are commonly known as...

– Soapberries

Sapindus drummondii – Western Soapberry

Sapindus saponaria

Sapindus saponaria

Sapindus saponaria is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree native to the Americas. Common names include wingleaf soapberry, western soapberry, jaboncillo, and mānele . Its genus name, "Sapindus", comes from the Latin, meaning Indian soap, and its specific epithet means "soapy."-Subspecies:*S. s....

– Wingleaf Soapberry

Sapindus marginatus – Florida Soapberry

Sapotaceae

Sapotaceae

Sapotaceae is a family of flowering plants, belonging to order Ericales. The family includes approximately 800 species of evergreen trees and shrubs in approximately 65 genera . Distribution is pantropical....

: The Sapodilla Family

Bumelia – Bumelias

Bumelia celastrina – Saffron Plum Bumelia

Bumelia lanuginosa – Gum Bumelia

Bumelia lycioides – Buckthorn Bumelia

Bumelia tenax – Tough Bumelia

Chrysophyllum

Chrysophyllum

Chrysophyllum is a genus of about 70-80 species of tropical trees, growing rapidly to 10–20 m or more in height. The genus is native to tropical regions throughout the world, with the greatest number of species in northern South America. One species, C...

– Chrysophyllum Fruit Trees

Chrysophyllum cainito

Chrysophyllum cainito

Chrysophyllum cainito is a tropical tree of the family Sapotaceae, native to the lowlands of Central America and the West Indies. It grows rapidly and reaches 20 m in height....

– Star Apple

Chrysophyllum oliviforme – Satinleaf

Dipholis – Bustics

Dipholis salicifolia

Dipholis salicifolia

Dipholis salicifolia, commonly called willow bustic or White Bully, is a species of flowering plant native to Florida, the West Indies and Central America. It was previously considered a member of the genus Sideroxylon, with the binomial Sideroxylon salicifolium...

– Willow Bustic

Manilkara

Manilkara

Manilkara is a genus of trees in the family Sapotaceae. Collectively known as manilkara trees, they occur throughout the tropics. A close relative is the genus Pouteria....

– Manilkara Trees

Manilkara bahamensis – Wild Dilly

Manilkara bidentata – Ausubo; Balata

Manilkara zapota – Sapodilla

Mastichodendron – Mastichodendron Trees

Mastichodendron foetidissimum – Mastic

Simaroubaceae

Simaroubaceae

The Simaroubaceae is a small, mostly tropical, family in the order Sapindales. In recent decades it has been subject to much taxonomic debate, with several small families being split off...

: The Quassia Family

Ailanthus

Ailanthus

Ailanthus is a genus of trees belonging to the family Simaroubaceae, in the order Sapindales . The genus is native from east Asia south to northern Australasia....

– Ailanthus Trees

Ailanthus altissima – Tree of Heaven; Ailanthus

Alvaradoa

Alvaradoa

Alvaradoa is a genus of plant in family Simaroubaceae.It contains the following species :* Alvaradoa jamaicensis, Benth.* Alvaradoa amorphoides Liebm....

– Alvaradoas

Alvaradoa amorphoides

Alvaradoa amorphoides

Alvaradoa amorphoides is a species of plant in the Simaroubaceae family. It is a common native plant in Mexico but is also native to southern Florida, where is it endangered.-External links:* * *...

– Mexican Alvaradoa

Picramnia

Picramnia

Picramnia is a genus of plant considered to be in the family Picramniaceae, but sometimes placed in Simaroubaceae. The name is conserved against the genera Pseudo-brasilium Adans., and Tariri Aubl., both which have been rejected .-Selected species:* P. acreana Ule* P. andrade-limae...

– Picramnia Trees

Picramnia pentandra – Bitterbush

Simarouba

Simarouba

Simarouba is a genus of trees and shrubs in the Simaroubaceae family, native to the neotropics. It has been grouped in the subtribe Simaroubina along with the Simaba and Quassia genera. They have compound leaves, with between 1 and 12 pairs of alternate pinnate leaflets. Their flowers are...

– Simarouba Trees

Simarouba glauca

Simarouba glauca

Simarouba glauca is a species of flowering tree that is native to Florida in the United States, southern Mexico, Central America, and the Greater Antilles. Common names include Paradise Tree, Aceituno, and Bitterwood. Its seeds produce an edible oil. The tree is well suited for warm, humid,...

– Paradise Tree; Bitterwood

Solanaceae

Solanaceae

Solanaceae are a family of flowering plants that include a number of important agricultural crops as well as many toxic plants. The name of the family comes from the Latin Solanum "the nightshade plant", but the further etymology of that word is unclear...

: The Nightshade Family

Nicotiana

Nicotiana

Nicotiana is a genus of herbs and shrubs of the nightshade family indigenous to North and South America, Australia, south west Africa and the South Pacific. Various Nicotiana species, commonly referred to as tobacco plants, are cultivated and grown to produce tobacco. Of all Nicotiana species,...

– Tobacco

Nicotiana glauca

Nicotiana glauca

Nicotiana glauca is a species of wild tobacco known by the common names tree tobacco and incorrectly also Mustard tree. Its leaves are attached to the stalk by petioles , and its leaves and stems are neither pubescent nor sticky like Nicotiana tabacum...

– Tree Tobacco

Solanum

Solanum

Solanum, the nightshades, horsenettles and relatives, is a large and diverse genus of annual and perennial plants. They grow as forbs, vines, subshrubs, shrubs, and small trees, and often have attractive fruit and flowers. Many formerly independent genera like Lycopersicon or Cyphomandra are...

– Nightshades and Potatoes

Solanum erianthum

Solanum erianthum

Solanum erianthum is a species of nightshade that is native to southern North America and northern South America. It has been introduced to other parts of the world and has a nearly pantropical distribution. Common names include Potato Tree, Mullein Nightshade , Velvet Nightshade, and...

– Potato Tree; Mullein Nightshade

Staphyleaceae

Staphyleaceae

Staphyleaceae is a small family of five genera of flowering plants in the order Crossosomatales, native to the Northern Hemisphere and also in South America. The genus Staphylea, which gives the family its name, contains the "bladdernut" trees.Genera...

: The Bladdernut Family

Staphylea – Bladdernuts

Staphylea trifolia

Staphylea trifolia

Staphylea trifolia is native to eastern North America, from southern Ontario and southwestern Quebec west to Nebraska and Arkansas, and south to Florida....

– American Bladdernut

Sterculiaceae

Sterculiaceae

Sterculiaceae is a botanical name for a group of flowering plants at the rank of family, which is now considered obsolete. As is true for any botanical name, the circumscription, status and placement of the taxon has varied with taxonomic point of view...

: The Sterculia Family

Brachychiton

Brachychiton

Brachychiton is a genus of 31 species of trees and large shrubs, native to Australia , and New Guinea . Fossils from New South Wales and New Zealand are estimated to be 50 million years old, corresponding to the Tertiary.They grow to 4 – 30m tall, and some are dry-season deciduous...

– Bottle Trees

Brachychiton populneus

Brachychiton populneus

The Kurrajong is a small to medium sized tree found naturally in Australia in a diversity of habitats from wetter coastal districts to semi-arid interiors of Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. The extended trunk is a water storage devise for survival in a warm dry climate...

– Bottle Tree

Brachychiton populneus x acerifolius – Flame Tree

Brachychiton rupestris – Queensland Bottle Tree

Cola

Cola

Cola is a carbonated beverage that was typically flavored by the kola nut as well as vanilla and other flavorings, however, some colas are now flavored artificially. It became popular worldwide after druggist John Pemberton invented Coca-Cola in 1886...

– Cola Trees

Cola acuminata

Cola acuminata

Cola acuminata belongs to the family Sterculiaceae and its fruits are harvested from the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The fruits are rough, mottled and up to 8 inches long and contain large, flat and bright red coloured seeds...

– Cola Nut Tree; Kola Tree

Dombeya

Dombeya

Dombeya is a flowering plant genus. Traditionally included in the family Sterculiaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. These plants are known by a number of vernacular names which sometimes, misleadingly, allude to the superficial similarity of...

– Dombeya Trees

Dombeya rotundifolia

Dombeya rotundifolia

Dombeya rotundifolia, Dikbas or "South African Wild Pear" , is a small deciduous tree with dark grey to blackish deeply fissured bark, found in Southern Africa and northwards to central and eastern tropical Africa...

– South African Wild Pear

Dombeya wallichii

Dombeya wallichii

Dombeya wallichii is a flowering shrub of the genus Dombeya, sometimes called the Pink-ball.Native to Madagascar.The flowers are fragrant, smelling like coconut....

– Pink-Ball; Tropical Hydrangea

Firmiana

Firmiana

Firmiana is a genus of flowering plant in the Sterculiaceae family.It contains 12 or more the following species, including:* Firmiana hainanensis* Firmiana major* Firmiana simplex...

– Parasol Trees

Firmiana simplex

Firmiana simplex

Firmiana simplex, commonly known as the Chinese parasol tree or wutong is an ornamental plant or tree of the cacao, or chocolate, of the family Sterculiaceae of the order Malvales, native to Asia. It grows to a height of 12 m . It has alternate, deciduous leaves up to 30 cm across and small...

– Chinese Parasol Tree

Theobroma

Theobroma

Theobroma is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae, that is sometimes classified as a member of Sterculiaceae. It contains roughly 20 species of small understory trees native to the tropical forests of Central and South America...

– Cocoa Trees

Theobroma cacao – Cacao; Cacahuatl; Kakaw

Strelitziaceae

Strelitziaceae

Strelitziaceae is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants. The plants are very similar in appearance and growth habit to members of the related families Heliconiaceae and Musaceae...

: The Bird-of-paradise Family

Ravenala – Ravenala Trees

Ravenala madagascariensis – Traveler’s Tree; Traveler’s Palm

Strelitzia

Strelitzia

Strelitzia is a genus of five species of perennial plants, native to South Africa. The genus is named after the duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, birthplace of Queen Charlotte of the United Kingdom. A common name of the genus is bird of paradise flower, because of a supposed resemblance of its...

– Strelitzia Trees

Strelitzia nicolai

Strelitzia nicolai

Strelitzia nicolai, commonly known as the Giant White Bird of Paradise or Wild Banana are banana-like plants with erect woody stems reaching a height of 6 m and the clumps formed can spread as far as 3.5 m ....

– Giant Bird of Paradise

Styracaceae

Styracaceae

Styracaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Ericales, containing 11 genera and about 160 species of trees and shrubs. The family occurs in warm temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere....

: The Storax Family

Halesia

Halesia

Halesia , also known as is a small genus of four or five species of deciduous large shrubs or small trees in the family Styracaceae, native to eastern Asia and eastern North America...

– Silverbells

Halesia carolina – Carolina Silverbell

Halesia diptera

Halesia diptera

Halesia diptera is a species in the family Styracaceae, native to the southeastern United States from South Carolina and Florida west to eastern Texas....

– Two-winged Silverbell; Double-winged Silverbell

Halesia tetraptera

Halesia tetraptera

Halesia tetraptera is a species in the family Styracaceae, native to the southeastern United States....

– Four-winged Silverbell; Quaduple-winged Silverbell

Styrax

Styrax

Styrax is a genus of about 130 species of large shrubs or small trees in the family Styracaceae, mostly native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the majority in eastern and southeastern Asia, but also crossing the equator in South America...

– Storaxes and Snowbells

Styrax americanus – Storax; American Snowbell

Styrax grandifolius – Bigleaf Snowbell

Surianaceae

Surianaceae

Surianaceae is a family of plants in the order Fabales. It has an unusual distribution: the genus Recchia is native to Mexico, and the sole member of Suriana, S. maritima, is a coastal plant with a pantropical distribution; and the remaining three genera are endemic to Australia.They range in...

: The Bay Cedar Family

Suriana

Suriana

Suriana is a monotypic genus of flowering plants containing only Suriana maritima, which is commonly known as Bay Cedar. It has a pantropical distribution and can be found on coasts in the New and Old World tropics. Bay Cedar is an evergreen shrub or small tree, usually reaching a height of and...

– Suriana Trees

Suriana maritima – Bay Cedar

Symplocaceae

Symplocaceae

Symplocos is a genus of flowering plants in the order Ericales, containing about 250 species native to Asia, Australia and the Americas.Symplocos species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including The Engrailed....

: The Sweetleaf Family

Symplocos – Sweetleaf

Symplocos tinctoria – Sweetleaf; Horse Sugar

Tamaricaceae

Tamaricaceae

Tamaricaceae is a flowering plant family containing four genera. In the 1980s, the family was classified in the Violales under the Cronquist system; more modern classifications place them in the Caryophyllales.The family is native to drier areas of Europe, Asia and Africa...

: The Tamarisk Family

Tamarix

Tamarix

The genus Tamarix is composed of about 50-60 species of flowering plants in the family Tamaricaceae, native to drier areas of Eurasia and Africa...

– Tamarisk Trees

Tamarix gallica

Tamarix gallica

Tamarix gallica, the French Tamarisk, is a deciduous, herbaceous, twiggy shrub or small tree reaching up to about 5 meters high. It is indigenous to Saudi Arabia and the Sinai Peninsula, and very common around the Mediterranean region. It is present in many other areas as an invasive introduced...

– Gallic Tamarisk; Salt Cedar

Tamarix parviflora

Tamarix parviflora

Tamarix parviflora is a species of tamarisk known by the common name smallflower tamarisk.It is native to southeastern Europe but it is well-known elsewhere, such as western North America, where it is an invasive introduced species.It easily inhabits moist habitat, especially in saline soils. It...

– American Tamarisk; Tamarisk

Theaceae

Theaceae

The Theaceae is a family of flowering plants, composed of shrubs and trees. Some botanists include the family Ternstroemiaceae within the Theaceae while others do not...

: The Tea Family

Camellia

Camellia

Camellia, the camellias, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. They are found in eastern and southern Asia, from the Himalaya east to Korea and Indonesia. There are 100–250 described species, with some controversy over the exact number...

– Camellias

Camellia japonica

Camellia japonica

The Japanese Camellia is one of the best known species of camellia. Sometimes called the rose of winter, it is a member of the Theaceae family or tea family. It is a flowering shrub or a small tree native to Japan, Korea and China. It is the official state flower of Alabama.-Description:In the...

– Japanese Camellia; Camellian Rose

Camellia sinensis

Camellia sinensis

Camellia sinensis is the species of plant whose leaves and leaf buds are used to produce Chinese tea. It is of the genus Camellia , a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. White tea, green tea, oolong, pu-erh tea and black tea are all harvested from this species, but are processed...

– Tea Camellia; Tea Plant

Franklinia

Franklinia

Franklinia is a monotypic genus in the tea plant family, Theaceae. The sole species in this genus is a flowering tree, Franklinia alatamaha, commonly called the Franklin tree, and native to the Altamaha River valley in Georgia in the southeastern United States...

– Franklinia Shrubs

Franklinia alatamaba – Franklinia

Gordonia

Gordonia

Gordonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae, related to Franklinia, Camellia and Stewartia. Of the roughly 40 species, all but two are native to southeast Asia in southern China, Taiwan and Indochina. The remaining species, G...

– Gordonia Shrubs

Gordonia lasianthus – Loblolly Bay; Red Bay

Stewartia – Stewartias Shrubs

Stewartia malacodendron

Stewartia malacodendron

Stewartia malacodendron is a species of plant in the genus Stewartia and family Theaceae. It grows slowly into a large deciduous shrub or small tree, typically 3 to 4.5 meters tall, but sometimes as tall as 9 meters...

– Virginia Stewartia; Silky Stewartia; Silky Camellia

Stewartia ovata

Stewartia ovata

Stewartia ovata is a species of Stewartia native to low to mid-elevations in the southern Appalachian Mountains...

– Mountain Stewartia

Stewartia pseudocamellia – Japanese Stewartia; Deciduous Camellia

Theophrastaceae

Theophrastaceae

Theophrastaceae is a small family of flowering plants. As currently circumscribed, the family consists of seven genera and 95 species of trees or shrubs, native to tropical regions of the Americas....

: The Theophrasta Family

Jacquinia

Jacquinia

Jacquinia is a genus of evergreen shrubs and trees in the family Theophrastaceae, native to Central America and the Caribbean.The genus was established by Linnaeus in 1760 and named by him in honor of Jacquin.There are about 86 species. ....

– Jacquinia Trees

Jacquinia keyensis – Joewood

Thymelaeaceae

Thymelaeaceae

Thymelaeaceae is a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants composed of 50 genera and 898 species. It was established in 1789 by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu.Thymelaeaceae is in the order Malvales...

: The Mezereum Family

Daphne

Daphne

Daphne was a female minor nature deity. Pursued by Apollo, she fled and was chased. Daphne begged the gods for help, who then transformed her into Laurel.-Overview:...

– Daphne Laurels

Daphne laureola

Daphne laureola

Daphne laureola, or Spurge-laurel , is a species of Daphne in the flowering plant family Thymelaeaceae...

– Spurge Laurel

Daphne mezereum

Daphne mezereum

Daphne mezereum is a species of Daphne in the flowering plant family Thymelaeaceae, native to most of Europe and Western Asia, north to northern Scandinavia and Russia. In southern Europe it is confined to medium to higher elevations and in the subalpine vegetation zone, but descends to near sea...

– Mezereon

Tiliaceae

Tiliaceae

Tiliaceae is a botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family is not part of APG II, but it is found all through the botanical literature and remains prominently listed by nomenclatural databases such as IPNI....

: The Basswood Family

Tilia

Tilia

Tilia is a genus of about 30 species of trees native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The greatest species diversity is found in Asia, and the genus also occurs in Europe and eastern North America, but not western North America...

– Basswoods

Tilia americana

Tilia americana

Tilia americana is a species of Tilia native to eastern North America, from southeast Manitoba east to New Brunswick, southwest to northeast Texas, and southeast to South Carolina, and west along the Niobrara River to Cherry County, Nebraska...

– American Basswood

Tilia caroliniana – Carolina Basswood

Tilia cordata

Tilia cordata

Tilia cordata is a species of Tilia native to much of Europe and western Asia, north to southern Great Britain , central Scandinavia, east to central Russia, and south to central Spain, Italy, Bulgaria, Turkey, and the Caucasus; in the south of its range it is restricted to...

– Small-leaved Basswood

Tilia europaea – Common Lime

Tilia heterophylla

Tilia heterophylla

Tilia heterophylla , is a species of Tilia native to mesic forests in eastern North America from central New York south to northernmost Florida and west to Missouri; it is most common in the Appalachian Mountains....

– White Basswood

Tilia platyphyllos

Tilia platyphyllos

Tilia platyphyllos is a deciduous tree native to much of Europe, including locally in southwestern Great Britain, growing on lime-rich soils. The common name Large-leaved Linden is in standard use throughout the English-speaking world except in Britain, where it has largely been replaced by the...

– Large-leaved Basswood

Tilia tomentosa

Tilia tomentosa

Tilia tomentosa is a species of Tilia native to southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia, from Hungary and the Balkans east to western Turkey, occurring at moderate altitudes....

– White Linden

Ulmaceae

Ulmaceae

Ulmaceae is a family of flowering plant that includes the elms , and the zelkovas . Members of the family are widely distributed throughout the north temperate zone, and have a scattered distribution elsewhere except for Australasia.The family was formerly sometimes treated to include the...

: The Elm Family

Planera – Planera Trees

Planera aquatica

Planera aquatica

Planera aquatica, or Water Elm is single species in the southeastern U.S.A., a small deciduous tree 10-15 m tall, closely related to the Elms but with a softly, prickly nut 10-15 mm diameter, instead of a winged seed. It grows, as the name suggests, on wet sites. The leaves are 3-7 cm long, with a...

– Water Elm; Planertree

Ulmus – Elms

Ulmus alata – Winged Elm; Wahoo

Ulmus americana – American Elm; White Elm

Ulmus bergmanniana – Bergmann’s Elm

Ulmus canescens

Ulmus canescens

Ulmus canescens Melville is a small deciduous tree occasionally known by the common names Grey Elm, Grey-leafed Elm, and Hoary Elm. Its natural range extends through the lands of the central and eastern Mediterranean, including the islands of Sicily, Malta, Crete and Cyprus, as far south as Israel,...

– Grey Elm; Grey-leafed Elm; Hoary Elm

Ulmus castaneifolia – Chestnut-leafed Elm

Ulmus chenmoui – Chenmou Elm

Ulmus crassifolia – Cedar Elm

Ulmus davidiana – David Elm; Father David’s Elm

Ulmus davidiana var. japonica – Japanese Elm; Wilson’s Elm

Ulmus gaussenii

Ulmus gaussenii

Ulmus gaussenii W. C. Cheng, the Anhui, or Hairy, Elm, is a medium deciduous tree whose natural range is restricted to the valleys of limestone mountains in Anhui Province, eastern China. U...

– Anhui Elm

Ulmus glabra – Wych Elm; Scots Elm

Ulmus glaucescens

Ulmus glaucescens

Ulmus glaucescens Franch. the Gansu Elm, is a small deciduous tree from the northern provinces of China, where it is found along river valleys and on mountain slopes at elevations of between 2000 m and 2600 m .-Description:...

– Gansu Elm

Ulmus harbinensis

Ulmus harbinensis

Ulmus harbinensis Nie & Huang, also known as the Harbin Elm, is a small elm found only in the province of Heilongjang in the northeastern extremity of China, where it occurs in mixed forest.-Description:...

– Harbin Elm; Harbinese Elm

Ulmus laciniata – Manchurian Elm; Cut-leaf Elm

Ulmus laciniata var. nikkoensis

Ulmus laciniata var. nikkoensis

The Manchurian or Laciniate Elm Ulmus laciniata variety nikkoensis Rehder, commonly known as the Nikko Elm, was discovered as a seedling near Lake Chuzenji, near Nikkō, Japan, and obtained by the Arnold Arboretum in 1905. The taxonomy of the tree remains a matter of contention, and has been...

– Nikko Elm

Ulmus laevis – European White Elm; Fluttering Elm; Spreading Elm; Russian Elm

Ulmus lamellosa

Ulmus lamellosa

Ulmus lamellosa, commonly called the Hebei Elm, is a small deciduous tree native to four Chinese provinces, Hebei, Henan, Nei Mongol, and Shanxi, to the west and south of Beijing .-Description:...

– Hebei Elm

Ulmus macrocarpa – Large-fruited Elm

Ulmus mexicana

Ulmus mexicana

The Mexican Elm Ulmus mexicana Planch. is a large tree endemic to Mexico and Central America. It is most commonly found in cloud forest and the higher elevations of tropical rain forest with precipitation levels of between 2 m and 4 m per annum, ranging from San Luis Potosi south to Chiapas in...

– Mexican Elm

Ulmus minor subsp. angustifolia – Cornish Elm

Ulmus minor subsp. minor – Field Elm; Smooth-leaved Elm; Narrow-leaved Elm

Ulmus minor subsp. sarniensis – Guernsey Elm; Jersey Elm; Southampton Elm; Wheatley Elm

Ulmus minor var. plotii – Plot’s Elm; Goodyer’s Elm; Lock Elm

Ulmus parvifolia

Ulmus parvifolia

Ulmus parvifolia, commonly known as the Chinese Elm or Lacebark Elm, is a species native to China, Japan, North Korea and Vietnam...

– Chinese Elm; Lacebark Elm

Ulmus parvifolia var. coreana

Ulmus parvifolia var. coreana

The Korean Elm Ulmus parvifolia var. coreana Nakai is a variety of the Chinese Elm Ulmus parvifolia, native to Korea.-Cultivation:...

– Korean Lacebark Elm

Ulmus procera – English Elm; Atinian Elm

Ulmus pumila – Siberian Elm

Ulmus rubra

Ulmus rubra

Ulmus rubra, the Slippery Elm, is a species of elm native to eastern North America...

– Slippery Elm; Red Elm

Ulmus serotina – September Elm

Ulmus szechuanica

Ulmus szechuanica

Ulmus szechuanica Fang, known as the Szechuan , or Red-fruited, Elm, is a small to medium deciduous Chinese tree found along the Yangtze river through the provinces of Sichuan, Jiangxi, Anhui, and Jiangsu.-Description:...

– Szechuan Elm

Ulmus thomasii – Rock Elm; Cork Elm

Ulmus uyematsui – Arishan Elm

Ulmus villosa – Cherry Bark Elm

Ulmus wallichiana – Himalayan Elm; Kashmir Elm

Zelkova

Zelkova

Zelkova is a genus of six species of deciduous trees in the elm family Ulmaceae, native to southern Europe, and southwest and eastern Asia. They vary in size from shrubs to large trees up to 35 m tall . The leaves are alternate, with serrated margins, and a symmetrical base to the leaf blade...

– Zelkovas

Zelkova serrata

Zelkova serrata

Zelkova serrata is a species of Zelkova native to Japan, Korea, eastern China, and Taiwan. It is often grown as an ornamental tree, and used in bonsai.-Description:...

– Japanese Zelkova

Verbenaceae

Verbenaceae

Verbenaceae, commonly known as the verbena family or vervain family, is a family of mainly tropical flowering plants. It contains trees, shrubs and herbs notable for heads, spikes, or clusters of small flowers, many of which have an aromatic smell.Recent phylogenetic studies have shown that...

: The Verbena Family

Avicennia

Avicennia

Avicennia is a genus of flowering plants currently placed in the bear's breeches family, Acanthaceae. It contains mangrove trees, which occur in the intertidal zones of estuarine areas and are characterized by aerial roots. Species of Avicennia occur worldwide south of the Tropic of Cancer.The...

– Avicennia Trees

Avicennia germinans

Avicennia germinans

Avicennia germinans, commonly known as the black mangrove, is a species of flowering plant in the acanthus family, Acanthaceae.A. germinans grows in tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, on both Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and on the Atlantic coast of tropical Africa, where it thrives...

– Black Mangrove

Citharexylum

Citharexylum

Citharexylum is a genus of flowering plants in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. It contains 70 to 100 shrub and tree species commonly known as Fiddlewoods or Zitherwoods. They are native to the Americas, ranging from southern Florida and Texas in the United States to Argentina. The highest...

– Fiddlewoods

Citharexylum caudatum – Juniper Berry

Citharexylum fruticosum – Florida Fiddlewood

Citharexylum spinosum

Citharexylum spinosum

Citharexylum spinosum is a species of flowering plant in the verbena family, Verbenaceae, that is native to southern Florida in the United States, the Caribbean, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Common names include Florida Fiddlewood and Spiny Fiddlewood. It is a tree that reaches a height of up...

– Spiny Fiddlewood

Duranta

Duranta

Duranta is a genus of flowering plants in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. It contains 17 species of shrubs and small trees that are native from southern Florida to Mexico and South America...

– Durantas

Duranta erecta

Duranta erecta

Duranta erecta is a species of flowering shrub in the verbena family Verbenaceae, native from Mexico to South America and the Caribbean. It is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant in tropical and subtropical gardens throughout the world, and has become naturalized in many places...

– Golden Dewdrop; Pigeon Berry; Skyflower

Duranta erecta variegata – Variegated Skyflower; Pigeon Berry

Vitex

Vitex

Vitex is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae Martynov, nom. cons. . It has about 250 species. Its type species is Vitex agnus-castus. There is no universal English name, though "chastetree" is common for many species...

– Chaste Trees

Vitex agnus-castus

Vitex agnus-castus

Vitex agnus-castus, also called Vitex, Chaste Tree, Chasteberry, Abraham's Balm or Monk's Pepper, is a native of the Mediterranean region. It is one of the few temperate-zone species of Vitex, which is on the whole a genus of tropical and sub-tropical flowering plants...

– Chaste Tree