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:
- ‘Akatsuki’
- ‘Bruce Briggs’
- ‘Donardensis’
- ‘Hollandia’
- Jan Iseli Pink’ and ‘Jan Iseli Red’
- ‘Princeton Red Bells’
White- and cream-flowered cultivars
- ‘Renoir’
- ‘Wallaby
Variegated cultivars
- ‘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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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