Evaluation of Sources for List-1&List-2

1.Missouri Botanical Garden:

http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderSearch.aspx

Advantages:

1. Has prounciation
2. Has a lot of infomation listed clearly, including USDA hardness zone
3. Garden uses
4. Way and important things to notice in culture

weaknesses:

1. The characritic is in big paragraph, not easy to read
2. flower and fruit description are not detailed enough
3. pictures are not enough, low-res, can not show the whole plant sometimes
4. does not include leaf arrangement

2. UCONN plant database

http://www.hort.uconn.edu/plants/list.php

advantages:

1. easy to search (when you type in the genus, the list of plants in that genus appears on the right at the same time)
2. pictures from different angles
3. all features in lists(easy to read and find)
4. has USDA hardness zone and the orignal place
5. ID features

weaknesses:

1. do not include water usage and soil requirement
2. some plants can not be found

3. Sunset Western Garden Book, Lane Publishing, Palo Alto, Califonia

advantages:

1. has pictures focusing on the most important ID features of the plant
2. includes cultivars and variations
3. concise, easy to read
4. teaches the reader how to choose the plant based on their need
5. and how to grow them

weaknesses:

1. uses 24 climate zones, not the USDA hardness zone
2. only include plants in America
3. do not include landscape usage or the limitation
4. do not include photos of the plant

1.Acer campestre

Common name: edge maple / field maple

Family name: aceraceae

Useful Cultivars and Selections:

‘Carnival’ ‘Commodore’ ‘Compactum’ ‘Eastleigh Weeping”Elegant’ ‘Elsrijk’ ‘Evenly Red’ ‘Fastigiatum’ ‘Green Weeping’ ‘Leprechaun’ ‘Lienco’ ‘Marjolein’ ‘Nanum’ ‘Pendulum’ ‘Postelense’ ‘Pulverulentum’ ‘Punctatissimum’ ‘Puncticulatum’ ‘Queen Elisabeth’ ‘Red Shine’ ‘Royal Ruby’ ‘Ruby Glow’ ‘Schwerinii’ ‘Senator’ ‘Silver Celebration’ ‘Silver Dawn’ ‘Streetwise’ ‘Tauricum’ ‘Tomentosum’ ‘William Caldwell’ ‘Zorgvlied’

USDA Hardiness Zone: 5-8

Mature height and spread: 7.5-10.5m/7.5-10.5m

Form:

small, low-branched, dense, rounded, deciduous tree or large multi-stemmed shrub

Water use: medium

Soil requirement:

average, medium moisture, well-drained soils

Leaf arrangement: opposite

Fall colour: yellow

Flower/ Cone/ Fruit description:

flowers are produced in spring at the same time as the leaves open, yellow-green, in erect clusters 4–6 centimetres (1.6–2.4 in) across, and are insect-pollinated

fruit is a samara with two winged achenes aligned at 180°, each achene is 8–10 millimetres (0.31–0.39 in) wide, flat, with a 2 centimetres (0.79 in) wing

Suitable uses: street tree

Limitation:

No serious insect or disease problems. Leaf spots, tar spot, verticillium wilt, canker and root rots may occur. Potential insect pests include aphids, scale, borers and caterpillars. Mites may appear.

Quick ID description: 180 degree semara

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2. Acer palmatum

Common Name: Japanese maple

Family Name: Aceraceae

Useful Cultivars and Selections:

‘Aka shigitatsu sawa’,

‘Ao ba jo’: a dwarf with bronze-green summer foliage

Atropurpureum: wine-red, including new branches

‘Bloodgood’agm: an improved cultivar of ‘Atropurpureum’

‘Burgundy Lace’agm

‘Butterfly’; small leaves with white borders

‘Chitose-Yama’agm

‘Crimson Queen’ (see under ‘Dissectum’)

USDA Hardiness Zone: 5-8

Mature Height and Spread: 15-20 feet/15-20feet

Form: rounded deciduous tree

Water Use: Moist but well-drained

Soil Requirements: Loam, Clay, Sand, Chalk

Leaf Arrangement/Foliage: opposite

Fall Colour: copper, red, orange, yellow, green

Flower/Cone/Fruit description(s): fruit: length: 3cm, 120 degree

Limitations: Hardy with shelter from late frosts and cold winds

Suitable Uses: small tree in garden, street tree

Quick ID description: 120 degree semara

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3. Aesculus hippocastanum

Common Name: horse chestnut

Family Name: Hippocastanaceae

Useful Cultivars and Selections: ‘Baumannii’，’Pendula’，’Pyramidalis’，’Rubicunda’，’Tortuosa’

USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-8

Mature Height and Spread:

Height: 50.00 to 75.00 feet

Spread: 40.00 to 65.00 feet

Form: deciduous tree, crown is symetrical and round

Water Use: Medium

Soil Requirements: well-drained

Leaf Arrangement/Foliage: opposite

Fall Colour: yellow

Flower/Cone/Fruit description(s): fruit looks like chestnut but bigger

Limitations: require full sun

Suitable Uses: streen tree, park tree

Quick ID description: 7 lobes leaves, fruits like chestnut

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4. Cornus Kousa

Common Name: kusa dogwood

Family Name: cornaceae

Useful Cultivars and Selections:

var. chinensis, ‘Beni Fuji’, ‘Elizabeth Lustgarten’, ‘Gold Star’, ‘Little Beauty’, ‘Milky Way’ , ‘Satomi’, ‘Snowboy’, ‘Summer Stars’, ‘Temple Jewel’, ‘Variegata’, ‘Wolf Eyes’

USDA Hardiness Zone: 5-8

Mature Height and Spread: 15-30 feet

Form: multiple stem, deciduous tree

Water Use: medium

Soil Requirements: moisture, well-drianed, acid

Leaf Arrangement/Foliage: opposite

Fall Colour: red

Flower/Cone/Fruit description(s): the flowers are surrounded by four large, showy, pointed bracts

dull, raspberry red, pendant fruits when ripe, diameter of the fruit:1.5cm

Limitations: May suffer from cornus anthracnose diseases

Suitable Uses: flowering tree

Quick ID description: red fruit, parallel vein, opposite leaves

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5.Enkianthus campanulatus

Common Name: furin-tsutsuji

Family Name: Ericaceae

Useful Cultivars and Selections:

Deep pink- and red-flowered cultivars:

1. ‘Akatsuki’
2. ‘Bruce Briggs’
3. ‘Donardensis’
4. ‘Hollandia’
5. Jan Iseli Pink’ and ‘Jan Iseli Red’
6. ‘Princeton Red Bells’

 

White- and cream-flowered cultivars

1. ‘Renoir’
2. ‘Wallaby

 

Variegated cultivars

1. ‘Tokyo Masquerade’

USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-7

Mature Height and Spread: 6-10 ft/ 4-6 ft

Form: deciduous shrub

Water Use: medium

Soil Requirements: acid, well-drained

Leaf Arrangement/Foliage: alternate

Fall Colour: purple, green

Flower/Cone/Fruit description(s): clusters, red

Limitations: can not tolerent hot and drought

Suitable Uses: parks and gardens

Quick ID description: upright branches, flower and fruit in clusters, leaves cluster at top of branches

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6.Euonymus japonicas

Common Name: evergreen spindle

Family Name: Celastraceae

Useful Cultivars and Selections:

‘Albomarginatus’ – leaves green, narrowly margined white

‘Bravo’ – green and creamy-yellow variegated leaves, upright habit

‘Chollipo’agm

‘Green Spire’ – evergreen columnar narrow shrub

‘Kathy’ – green and white variegated, broad leaves, shorter growing than most

‘Latifolius Albomarginatus’ – green leaves with broad white margin

‘Ovatus Aureus’agm

‘President Gauthier’ – dark green and creamy-white variegated leaves, slightly more lax habit than others

USDA Hardiness Zone: 7

Mature Height and Spread: 15 ft/ 6 ft

Form: oval shrub

Water Use: little

Soil Requirements: adapatible to variety of soil

Leaf Arrangement/Foliage: opposite

Fall Colour: dark green

Flower/Cone/Fruit description(s): not obvious

Limitations: No particular limitations.

Suitable Uses: Specimen, foundation plant, natural or sheared hedge or screen.

Quick ID description: dense shrub, dark green/ golden and green leathery leaves

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7. Gleditsia triacanthos f. inermis

Common Name: Thornless Honeylocust

Family Name: Fabaceae

Useful Cultivars and Selections:

Gleditsia triacanthos f.inermis‘Sunburst’

Gleditsia triacanthos f.inermis‘Moraine’

Gleditsia triacanthos f. inermis ‘Emerald Kascade’

USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-10

Mature Height and Spread:  20m/11m

Form: imformal spreading

Water Use: medium

Soil Requirements: adapt to a variety of soil types

Leaf Arrangement/Foliage: alternate

Fall Colour: green

Flower/Cone/Fruit description(s): 35 cm legume

Limitations: can not tolerate cold and wet weather in Vancouver or acid soil

Suitable Uses: street trees

Quick ID description: double compound leaf, leaflets are small

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8. Juglans ailantifolia

Common Name: heartnut

Family Name: Juglandaceae

USDA Hardiness Zone: 6-7

Mature Height and Spread: 20m/15m

Form: Long, spreading, arching stems; fountain-like mound

Water Use: medium

Soil Requirements: well-drained

Leaf Arrangement/Foliage: alternate

Fall Colour: green

Flower/Cone/Fruit description(s): the fruit is dry but does not split open when ripe

Limitations: difficult to transfer, need irrigation in summer

The only significant disease Japanese walnuts are susceptible to is the Walnut Bunch Disease

need a sunny position sheltered from strong winds

Suitable Uses: street tree, can grow in short period flood

Quick ID description: leaf scar

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9. Leucothoe fontanesiana

Common Name: dog hobble

Family Name: Ericaceae

Useful Cultivars and Selections: ‘Girard’s Rainbow’, ‘Scarletta’, ‘Rollisoni’

USDA Hardiness Zone: 6-8

Mature Height and Spread: 1-1.5m

Form: deciduous shrub

Water Use: medium

Soil Requirements: acid soil

Leaf Arrangement/Foliage: alternate

Fall Colour: red

Flower/Cone/Fruit description(s):

small white urn-shaped flowers on all sides of elongated, axillary clusters, each white, inverted urn-shaped with 5 small lobes in late spring; fruit a globular, 5-lobed capsule more or less depressed at the apex

Limitations: Subject to leaf spot disease; does not withstand drought or drying wind

Suitable Uses: ground cover

Quick ID description: red branches, zigzag,leathery leaf

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10.Nyssa sinensis

Common Name: black gum/ sour gum

Family Name: Nyssaceae

Useful Cultivars and Selections: ‘tupelo’

USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-9

Mature Height and Spread: 30-50 ft/ 20-30 ft

Form: deciduous tree

Water Use: medium to wet

Soil Requirements: moist acidic soil

Leaf Arrangement/Foliage: alternate

Fall Colour: red

Flower/Cone/Fruit description(s): fruit like blueberries

Limitations: Some susceptibility to leaf spots, canker, rust, leaf miner and scale.

Suitable Uses: steet tree,  fall colour

Quick ID description: friut, leathery leaves

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11. Phyllostachys bambusoides

Common Name: Giant Timber Bamboo

Family Name: Poaceae

Useful Cultivars and Selections:

‘Allgold’, ‘Castillonis’, ‘Marliacea’

USDA Hardiness Zone: 6-9

Mature Height and Spread: 15-22m, running bamboo can spread everywhere

Form: running bamboo

Water Use: medium

Soil Requirements: well-drained

Leaf Arrangement/Foliage: opposite

Fall Colour: freen

Flower/Cone/Fruit description(s): no

Limitations: running bamboo must have containers underground

Suitable Uses: slugs may damage new shoots

Quick ID description: very tall running bamboo

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12.Robinia pseudoacacia ‘Frisia’

Common Name: Black Locust

Family Name: Fabaceae

Useful Cultivars and Selections: ‘ frisia’

USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-9

Mature Height and Spread: 27m/10m

Form: deciduous tree

Water Use: dry to medium

Soil Requirements: can grow in poor soil

Leaf Arrangement/Foliage: alternate

Fall Colour: yellow

Flower/Cone/Fruit description(s):

White to lavender‭/ ‬purple flower, intensely fragrant.(May or June)

legume, containing four to 10 seeds.

Limitations: branches are brittle

Suitable Uses: street tree

Quick ID description: compound leaf, legume, zigzag branches

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13. Salix ‘Chrysocoma‘

Common Name:  golden weeping willow

Family Name: Salicaceae

Useful Cultivars and Selections: ‘Chrysocoma’

USDA Hardiness Zone: 6

Mature Height and Spread: 5-7m/10-15m

Form: deicduous tree, weeping

Water Use:   high

Soil Requirements: moist

Leaf Arrangement/Foliage: alternate

Fall Colour: yellowish green to brown

Flower/Cone/Fruit description(s):

Catkins appear with the leaves in late March until April, with both male and female flowers in the same catkin. Showy, Green-yellow. / White capsule, from July to August, very showy.

Limitations: require water

Suitable Uses: steet, lawn tree

Quick ID description: leaves are long, flowers 3-4 cm

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14. Spiraea nipponica

Common Name: Tosa spirea ‘Snowmound’

Family Name: Rosaceae

Useful Cultivars and Selections:  ‘Snowmound ‘

USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-8

Mature Height and Spread: 1.5-2.5m

Form: deciduous shrub

Water Use: well-drained

Leaf Arrangement/Foliage: alternate

Fall Colour: green

Flower/Cone/Fruit description(s): white flowers on the top of the branches

brown capsule fruits

Limitations: no

Suitable Uses: flower shrub

Quick ID description: small, simple, dark green, alternate leavesds

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15. Stewartia monadelpha

Common Name: Orangebark Stewartia ,Tall Stewartia

Family Name: Theaceae

Mature Height and Spread: 20-25m/ 20-25m

Form: pyramidal crown shape. deciduous tree

Water Use: medium

Soil Requirements: moisture, well-drained, rich

Leaf Arrangement/Foliage: alternate

Fall Colour: red

Flower/Cone/Fruit description(s): Flower color: white/cream/gray

Suitable Uses: specimen; deck or patio; street without sidewalk; container or planter

Quick ID description: leaves and bud, smooth, yellow trunk

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16 Viburnum X bodnantense ‘Dawn’

Common Name: viburnum

Family Name: Adoxaceae

Useful Cultivars and Selections: ‘Dawn; ’Deben‘; ‘Charles Lamont’

USDA Hardiness Zone: 5-7

Mature Height and Spread: 1.5-2.5m/1.5m

Form: vase shape deciduous shrub

Water Use: medium

Soil Requirements: well-drained, moisture, drought tolerance

Leaf Arrangement/Foliage:  opposite

Fall Colour: green

Flower/Cone/Fruit description(s): flower: fragrant,.spherical, blue-black or purple fruits 

Limitations:

Late winter/early spring flowers are susceptible to frost damage.

The fruit can cause a mild stomach upset if ingested

May be affected by a leaf spot

Suitable Uses: flower shrub

Quick ID description: big bud.teeth margin， red petiole

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17. Viburrum lantana

Common Name: Way faring tree viburnum

Family Name: Adoxaceae

Useful Cultivars and Selections:’Aureum’ ‘Emerald Triumph”Mohican”Variegatum’

USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-8

Mature Height and Spread: 7-8ft/ 7-10 ft

Form: large deciduous shrub

Water Use: dry to medium

Soil Requirements: withstand fry compact soil

Leaf Arrangement/Foliage: opppsite

Fall Colour: green

Flower/Cone/Fruit description(s):

Flower

1.small white flowers with yellow stamens in flat clusters

2.flower clusters are 3″ to 5″ across

3.moderately showy in bloom

4.bloom time is mid-May

5.generally quite floriferous

 

Fruit:

1.berries are held in flat clusters

2.color changes from green to red to blue-black

3.color change occurs in August and September

4.each fruit cluster can display all colors at the same time

5.quite showy in fruit

6.can dry and persist like raisins

7.birds like the fruit

8.best fruiting occurs when several clones are planted together

Limitations:

leaf spot disease is occasionally a problem

Suitable Uses: shrub boarder

Quick ID description: obvious vein in the back; teeth margin

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Sources of information:

http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=VAPA

http://www.greatplantpicks.org/plantlists/search

http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderSearch.aspx

http://www.greatplantpicks.org/plantlists/search

1.Acer davidii

Common name: Snakebark maple

Family name: Aceraceae

Useful Cultivars and Selections: ‘Ernest Wilson’, ‘George Forrest’

USDA Hardiness Zone: 5

Mature height and spread:10-15m tall, long, arching branches.

Form:upright, slightly spreading, variable.

Water use:Medium

Soil requirement:Moisture, well-drained soils. Prefers acidic soils that are kept consistently moist.

Leaf arrangement:Opposite

Fall colour:Bright yellow, orange or red.

Flower/ Cone/ Fruit description:Small yellow flower with 5 sepals & 5 petals in April.

Suitable uses:Attractive small tree or large shrub for the landscape, used as a specimen plant.

Limitation:No serious pests or diseases. Potentially susceptible to verticillium wilt, leaf spots, tar spot, canker and root rots. Insects include aphids, scale, borers, caterpillars, and mites.

Quick ID description:Opposite, slightly heart-shaped, unevenly toothed leaves.

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2.Acer griseum

Common name: Paperbark Maple

Family name: Aceraceae

Useful cultivars and selections: ‘Ginzam’

USDA Hardiness Zone: 6

Mature height and spread: 6-9m

Form: Oval to oval-rounded tree with slender upright branching

Water use: Medium

Soil requirements: moist, well-drained soils

Leaf arrangement/Foliage: opposite

Fall colour: orange and red

Flower/cone/fruit description(s): yellow flowers are androdioecious, produced in small pendent corymbs in spring / fruit being a paired samara with two winged seeds about 1 cm long with a 3 cm wing

Limitations: Intolerant of drought 

Suitable uses: Deserves a location where its ornamental features can be appreciated (near a deck or patio). Appropriate as an understory tree in a woodland garden or as a specimen in many locations around the home.  Shade Tree。

Quick ID description: compound leaf, 3-leaflets, peeling orange bark distinctive / trifoliate leaves and exfoliating cinnamon-brown bark / buds sharply pointed and dark purplish-brown 

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3. Acer macrophyllum (N)

Common name: Bigleaf maple

Family name: Aceraceae

Useful cultivars and selections: Western or Oregon Maple

USDA Hardiness Zone: 5-9

Mature height and spread: 80-100 ft (25-30 m) tall/wide

Form: Round

Water use: Prefer moist sites

Soil requirements: well-drained soil, can grow in heavy clay soil.  

Leaf arrangement: opposite

Fall colour: yellow

Flower/cone/fruit description(s): flower: yellow

Limitations: Young, undamaged trees are generally free of serious disease or decay. Old or damaged trees commonly have serious defects caused by wood-rotting fungi

Suitable uses: planted in larger yards or parks/ street tree

Quick ID description: The leaf is big, 20-60 cm in length.

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4. Cercidiphyllum japonicum

Common name: katsura tree（or katsura)，Caramel tree 

Family name: Cercidiphyllaceae

Useful cultivars and selections: ‘Aureum’, ‘Heronswood Globe’, and ‘Ruby’

USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-8

Mature height and spread: 12m/ 8m

Form: Oval, spreading, upright

Water use: Medium

Soil requirements: Clay soil, Acid to neutral

Leaf arrangement/Foliage: opposite

Fall colour: gold orange or red

Flower/cone/fruit description(s): not significant

Limitations: has little tolerance for drought particularly when young. The leaves may be damaged by late frosts

Suitable uses: Shade tree/ street tree

Quick ID description:  heart-shaped base of the leaf

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5.X Chitalpa tashkentensis

Common name: Chitalpa

Family name: Bignoniaceae

Useful cultivars and selections: Pink Down; Morning Cloud

USDA Hardiness Zone: 6 to 9 

Mature height and spread: 20.00 to 35.00 feet/20.00 to 35.00 feet

Form: Partially to fully deciduous small tree, open, airy

Water use: Medium

Soil requirements: deep, moderately fertile, medium moisture, well-drained soils

Fall colour: green

Flower/cone/fruit description(s): 15 to 40 flowers in a terminal raceme, corollas are zygomorphic, calyx are 2-lobed, color is white to pale or dark pink and often with distinct purple veins, flowers are sterile and produce no fruit.

Limitations:

Powdery mildew can be a significant problem in growing areas with high summer humidity (e.g., the southeastern U. S.) and in growing conditions where trees are planted in too much shade. Additional disease problems include verticillium wilt, root rot and leaf spots. Watch for aphids, mealybugs, scale and whiteflies.

Disease and pests: This hybrid tree is highly subject to Thielaviopsis root rot, whereas foliar powdery mildew is usually confined to wet spring conditions.

Suitable uses: residential tree, smaller park tree, street tree with a long summer flowering period.

Quick ID description: Lanceolate leaves, dull green. 

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6.Davidia involucrata

Common name: Handkerchief tree

Family name: Cornaceae

Useful cultivars and selections:

1. involucrata var. involucrata, which has the leaves thinly pubescent (short-haired) on the underside;
2. involucrata var. vilmoriniana, with glabrous (hairless) leaves

USDA Hardiness Zone: 5

Mature height and spread: 20-25m/15m

Form: deciduous tree that typically grows 20-40’ tall with a broad pyramidal habit

Water use: Well-drained

Leaf arrangement/Foliage: alternate

Fall colour: green

Flower/cone/fruit description(s):

Flowers: Borne in compact, roughly spherical, reddish purple flower heads, about 2 cm in diameter. Flower heads are overshadowed by a pair of thin, white bracts, the longest one being up to 30 cm long and about twice the size of the other. The delicate bracts flutter in the breeze giving rise to the common names handkerchief, dove and ghost tree. Blossom time: April to may

Fruits: Hard, dark-green nuts, which turn purple when ripe. Each fruit contains 6–10 seeds. Seeds germinate erratically, and trees may need 10–20 years to flower. Fruit time: October

Flowers form a tight cluster about 1-2 cm across, and produces two pure white leaf-like bracts(works like raincoat) that sit on either side of the cluster.

The fruit is a very hard nut about 3cm long surrounded by a green husk about 4 cm long by 3cm wide.

Limitations: No particular limitations

Suitable uses: Grown as an ornamental in low maintenance architectural city, courtyard gardens cottage, informal garden patio, container plants

Quick ID description: White wax (can be rubbed off) over the back of leaf ,Long-shoot short-shoot morphology, tooth leaf edge

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7. Euonymus planipes

Common name: dingle-dangle tree

Family name: Celastraceae

Useful cultivars and selections:  ‘Sancho’ is a free-flowering cultivar of E. planipes, leading to an abundance of red fruits in autumn, along with red autumn foliage

Mature height and spread: 2.5m/2.5m

Form:deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees

Water use: medium

Soil requirements: well-drained

Leaf arrangement/Foliage: opposite

Fall colour: red

Flower/cone/fruit description(s):

Fruit: Capsular, dry, pinkish red fruits with orange-covered seeds.Split to reveal vivid-orange seeds

Flower: Occur in small groups, inconspicuous and of green or yellow shades

Limitations: Poisonous

Suitable uses: Flower borders and beds. Cast shade in a woodland planting scheme and under-plant with early-flowering oriental hellebores, wood anemones and snowdrops. 5 months (winter) without leaves

Quick ID description: Capsular fruit, red leaf colour in fall, maginal teeth, the terminal bud at the end of the branch is bigger than the axillary buds.

 

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8.Ginkgo biloba

Common name: Ginkgo

Family name: Ginkgoaceae

Useful cultivars and selections:

Ginkgo biloba ‘Fastigiata’：Fastigiate or columnar ginkgo forms have been available in commerce for over 100 years. Nurseries often sell these forms under several different labels including Ginkgo biloba forma fastigiata, G. b. fastigiata or G. b. ‘Fastigiata’. These fastigiate forms (fastigiate meaning upward branching) typically grow 30-50′ tall with upright, narrowly conical habits that are just slightly broader at the base. ‘Fastigiata’ is an all-male cultivar. Leaves turn a uniform golden yellow in autumn (spectacular when backlit by early morning or late afternoon sun) and persist for several weeks. When the leaves do drop, they drop rapidly, forming a golden carpet around the tree.

Ginkgo biloba ‘Magyar’：An introduction that is gaining momentum in the trade, this plant is a non-fruiting male with upright, ascending branching to 60′ tall and half as wide. It is well-suited to urban planting as a street tree.

Ginkgo biloba ‘Chi-Chi’ ：Dwarf, dense, mounded, slow-growing, multi-stemmed shrub form of the popular ginkgo tree. It typically grows to only 4-5′ tall with a fan-shaped habit and over 10 years. ‘Chi-Chi’ is a male clone. Its cultivar name translates as “breasts” in reference to unusual swellings (clusters of dormant buds) which appear on the bark of plants as they mature (usually after 10 years). Leaves turn a uniform golden yellow in autumn.

Ginkgo biloba ‘Tubifolia’ ：‘Tubifolia’ (synonymous with ‘Tubiformis’ and ‘Tubeleaf’) is a tubular-leaved, slow-growing male form that typically grows to only 3-4’ tall over the first five years. It is particularly noted for having variable leaf shapes. On younger trees, leaves typically roll inward forming tube. As trees grow older, the leaves tend to flatten out, but with a more laciniate form than species leaves. This tree may eventually mature to as much as 20-25’ tall. Light green leaves turn an excellent golden yellow in fall.

Ginkgo biloba ‘Jade Butterflies’： An unusual dwarf, slow-growing form, this plant has bright green leaves and a mature height that is less than half that of standard forms. It’s an introduction out of New Zealand that is gaining popularity.

Ginkgo biloba ‘Shangri-La’ ：’Shangri-La’ is a more compact well-branched tree with a full and balanced crown. It typically matures to 55′ tall and to 40′ wide. It is a male tree that was discovered in 1963 in a planting of seedlings in Urbana, Illinois by Willet N. Wandell. U. S. Plant Patent PP 5,221 was issued on April 17, 1984. Patent documents describe the unique features of this male tree as: (a) rapid compact growth habit, (b) dense full crown with balanced moderate spread, and (c) freedom from production of the foul smelling fruit produced by female plants. As with species plants, the fan-shaped leaves are rich green to blue green during the growing season, but change to an often spectacular bright yellow in fall. Dangling staminate catkins (April-May) are not ornamentally significant.

Ginkgo biloba ‘Troll’ ：‘Troll’ is a dwarf shrubby cultivar that matures over time to only 3′ tall and as wide. It typically grows in a bushy mound, although it can be trained to grow as a small pyramidal tree. As with species plants, the fan-shaped leaves (biloba means two-lobed) are rich green to blue green during the growing season, but change to bright yellow in fall.

Ginkgo biloba ‘Mariken’：Can‘t find description

Ginkgo biloba ‘Autumn Gold’： This male (non-fruiting) selection is common in the trade and notable for its symmetrical crown that is broad and rounded. The mature size is 50′ tall with a 30′ spread and fall color is an excellent deep yellow.

Ginkgo biloba ‘Pendula’：Plants listed under this name are quite variable, with few expressing a strong weeping habit. Most bear branches that are horizontal or droop slightly

Ginkgo biloba ‘PNI 2720’：A very popular non-fruiting male form, this form assumes an upright habit that tapers to the point. It reaches 60′ tall, but only 25’ wide.

Ginkgo biloba ‘ Saratoga’：Commonly offered, this plant has a strong central leader and an upright, narrow habit (40′ tall and 30’ tall).

Ginkgo biloba ‘ Variegata’：Many different clones are offered under this name, but most feature leaves that are irregularly streaked with yellow.

USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-8

Mature height and spread: 40′-80/30′-40′

Form: decidious tree, spreading lateral branches

Water use: medium, tolerent to drought

Soil requirements:  moist, sandy, well-drained soil

Leaf arrangement/Foliage: long shoot short shoot

Fall colour: yellow

Flower/cone/fruit description(s):

Fruit: Naked seed produced on female tree only; clusters of 2-6; light orange to tan color; flesh covering seed has a foul smell, often described as rancid butter.

Limitations: The branches may spread too wide, the fruits have bad smell after mature

Suitable uses: street tree, lawn tree, shade tree.

Quick ID description: fan-like leaves, long shoot short shoot morphology, fruits

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9.Koelreuteria paniculata

Common name: Goldenrain tree

Family name: Sapindaceae

Useful cultivars and selections:

‘Coral sun’;

‘Fastigiata’, with a narrow crown;

‘September Gold’, flowering in late summer

USDA Hardiness Zone: 5

Mature height and spread: 6-10m/4-8m

Form: decidious tree,hemispherical, with space ascending branching

Water use: medium

Soil requirements: well-drained

Leaf arrangement/Foliage: alternate

Fall colour: green, yellow

Flower/cone/fruit description(s): The flowers are yellow, with four petals, growing in large terminal panicles 20–40 cm (8–16 in) long. The fruit is a three-parted inflated bladderlike pod 3–6 cm long and 2–4 cm broad, green ripening orange to pink in autumn, containing several dark brown to black seeds 5–8 mm diameter.

Limitations: intolerant of wetland / need well-drained soil

Suitable uses: street tree.

Quick ID description: the leaflets lobed or lobe-toothed, emerging hot pink, coppery or bronze, turning yellow in the fall, heart-shaped fruit

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10. Sorbus ‘Joseph Rock’

Common name: mountain ash ‘Joseph Rock’

Family name: Rosaceae

Useful cultivars and selections: ‘ joseph rock’

USDA Hardiness Zone: 6

Mature height and spread: 8-12m/4-8m

Form: round-headed deciduous small tree

Water use: medium

Soil requirements: moist, well-drained, acidic to neutral

Leaf arrangement/Foliage: alternate

Fall colour: orange/ purple

Flower/cone/fruit description(s): White or pink flower blossom in May; Yellow or pink or red or brown or white berries in autumn; fruit edible

Limitations: Well drained environment needed; not resistant to drought; flower smells bad; May be affected by apple canker and fireblight; May be attacked by aphids, blister mites and sawflies

Suitable uses: Screening; Garden Tree; Small garden Tree; City/Urban Sites due to tolerance to pollution

Quick ID description: Alternate leaf arrangement with leaflets; stinky flowers; berry-like fruits; distinctive autumn leave and fruit colours

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11. Styrax japonicus

Common name: Japanese snowbell

Family name: styracaeae

Useful cultivars and selections: S. ‘Pink Chimes’ and S. ‘Snowcone’.

USDA Hardiness Zone: 5-9

Mature height and spread: 5-7m

Form: 0′ to 30′ tall deciduous flowering tree, broad, flt-topped canopy, branching is horizontal, single trunked

Water use: medium

Soil requirements: well-drained soil in full sun or part shade

Leaf arrangement/Foliage: alternate

Fall colour: brown

Flower/cone/fruit description(s):

flower: hang below foliage, 5-lobed with yellow stamens, in group of 3-6

fruit:dry-rounded drupes

Limitations: lack of cold tolerence, can not tolerate compact soil

Suitable uses: Garden use, beautiful white flowers in summer and  attractive fruit in winter.

Quick ID description: flowers and fruits in groups of 3-6

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12. Vaccinium parvifolium (N)

Common name: red huckleberry

Family name: Ericaceae

USDA Hardiness Zone: 5-9

Mature height and spread: 4m

Form: deciduous shrub, the stems and twigs slender, sharply angled (like V. myrtillus) when young

Water use: moist

Soil requirements: acidic with significant decaying organic matter

Leaf arrangement/Foliage: alternate

Fall colour: red

Flower/cone/fruit description(s):

Flower: yellow-white to pinkish-white with pink, decumbent bell-shaped 4-millimetre (0.16 in) to 5-millimetre (0.20 in) long.

Fruit: edible red to orange berry 6-millimetre (0.24 in) to 10-millimetre (0.39 in) in diameter.

Limitations: Requires shelter from strong winds[200]. Dislikes root disturbance, plants are best grown in pots until being planted out in their permanent positions

Suitable uses: Erosion control, hedge/screen, massing plant, natural woodland gardens, ornamental fruit, attracts wildlife.

Quick ID description: Ovate to oblong-elliptic, 9-millimetre (0.35 in) to 30-millimetre (1.2 in) long, and 4-millimetre (0.16 in) to 16-millimetre (0.63 in) wide, with an entire margin.

It has sharply angled, slender green branches that become grayish-brown as they mature.

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13. Vitex agnus-castus

Common name: Vitex

Family name: Lamiaceae

Useful cultivars and selections: ‘Silver Spire’ and ‘Alba’ have white flowers, and ‘Rosea’ has pink flowers.

USDA Hardiness Zone: 6-9

Mature height and spread: 2-5m/1.5-2.5m

Form: vase-shaped, deciduous shrub/ 3-5′ tall herbaceous perennial in cold area

Water use: medium

Soil requirements: well-drained

Leaf arrangement/Foliage: compound, palmate,

Fall colour: green

Flower/cone/fruit description(s): Showy, fragrant, violet and blue colour in July to August.

Limitations: Leaf spot and root rot are occasional problems. Winter hardiness in St. Louis is a problem.

Suitable uses: Garden use, interesting foliage and late summer flowers are attractive in shrub borders.

Quick ID description: palmate leaves. purple flowers

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Sourses of Information:

https://www.rhs.org.uk/

http://www.hort.uconn.edu/plants/index.php

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