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Littleleaf Linden(Tilia Cordata)

Leaves- simple, heart shaped, oblique base, finely serrated, 1.25 to 3in long, 1.25 to 2.5in, dark green Height 60 to 80 feet Spread 35 to 50 feet Alternate leaves veins are pinnate Thin brown or green branches no thorns Yellow Flowers pleasant fragrance, and showy summer flowering

London Planetree (Plantanus acerifolia) Foliage: Deciduous broadleaf 75 to 100 feet tall 65 to 80 foot spread spreading shape bark flakes to reveal the white bark underneath Zones 5 to 8 Partial shade to full sun Wet to moist moisture level Soil: sandy, clay, or loam

used for shade also known as "bloodgood" cross between American sycamore and oriental sycamore Easily transplanted Pests really hurt the tree anthrosnoce powdery Mildew cankers bacterial leaf scorch sycamore lacebug sycamore scale American plum borer

All maples have seeds that spin to the ground (acer) deciduous

Norway Maple (Acer platanoides)

broadly round crown bark starts black and smooth then becomes rougher with age Paired leaves palmate leaves marginal teeth with hair like edges bright yellow-green flowers in the spring fruit matures in to casing as above has milky sap reproduces by seed or through roots like an aspen looks like sugar maple and red maple

Sugar maple Zones 3 through 8 Ornamental 60 to 75 ft. tall 40 to 50 ft. spread slow to medium growth Full sun various soils oval shape leaves causes syrup great 4 firewood doesn't do well with salt prefers moist soil but slightly drought resistence yellow green flower

winged seeds

Amur Maple (Acer ginnala) zone 3 to 8 opposite buds buds are reddish brown or lighter 1/8 in imbricate buds 3 lobe center lobe longest Doubly sereated Glaborus surface 1.5 to 3 in surface Dark green above, light green beneath, bright red in fall Yellow-white with a fragrance paired samaras fruit brown to red rounded outline with multi-stem growth prefers moist well drained soils full sun to partial shade

Freeman Maple(Acer freemani) 40 to 60 ft tall 20 to 40 ft spread Oval shape does best in full sun rich well drained soils urban tolerant

3 to 5 lobed blades more like silver maple than red maple some cultivators are fruitless 2 joined samaras per stalk

zone 4 trough 8

Silver Maple(Acer Saccharinum) Opposite sides Simple leaf 5 plantae lobed margins deeply serrated 2.5 to 5 in long

 Monoecious, red flowers samara 1.5 to 2.5 in long stout chestnut brown twig buds reddish brown to green scaled light grey bark Smooth when young(bark) can be 100ft tall trunks usually split into subtrunks early on

Sources http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/trees/handbook/th-3-125.pdf http://hort.ufl.edu/database/documents/pdf/tree_fact_sheets/tilcora.pdf www.treehelp.com/trees/london-planetree/index.asp http://onlinegardener.com/trees/London%20plane%20tree.pdf http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/pubs/midatlantic/acpl.htm http://www.arborday.org/treeguide/TreeDetail.cfm?id=14 http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/trees/handbook/th-3-85.pdf http://plantfacts.osu.edu/pdf/0246-48.pdf http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/trees/handbook/th-3-127.pdf http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=5