Tree Identification

As the tree grows it starts the appearance of rings inside the trunk. Counting the rings of a tree gives a fairly accurate measure of a tree’s age. The growth rings show how the weather has changed and affected the tree’s quality of life over the years. The wider the rings the more growth of the tree and the closer it is to ideal weather conditions. The narrow the rings will indicate less growth due to cold weather or drought conditions. The oldest layer of growth is in the center; the…

Worksheet to hand out to students showing different parts and types of leaves. Have students examine leaves and compare to this handout in small groups. . . Basic tree identification sheet, if ID b…

In Yule celebrations long ago, evergreens were commonly used for rituals and decorations. The trees' steadfastness in the face of bitter cold and dark gave people hope that the sun would indeed come back to warm the earth again. Any...

How helpful of Discover the Wild to produce a quick guide to tree buds. A perfect handy guide for Spring walks. They say this about their guide, …. here is a quick guide to some of the commo…

Most trees can be easily identified by inspecting their leaves, seed pods, flowers, bark, or shape.

These pictures and their accompanying text are taken from a beautiful old book on tree identification written by R. ST. Barbe Baker, the self-styled founder of the wonderfully-named The Men of the Trees, an organisation I know nothing about, but wish I had belonged to. The book came out in the 1940s, so all of it is now copyright free. I post this material for those of you who are of a Crafty persuasion (you know who you are;) and anyone else who is interested and would find the information…

Have you ever given much consideration to the various pine trees around you? My children and I have been slowly identifying the deciduous trees in our neighborhood and can now identify a few during the winter by the buds that develop in late summer. But it wasn’t until recently that we set on a quest …

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“Leaves - arrangement, description & texture 🙂🌱 Phyllotaxis - ‘opposite’ leaves arise from the stem at the same level & the same node, on opposite sides of the stem. ‘alternate’ (spiral) pattern, each leaf arises at a different node on the stem. #nature #trees”

Other conifer tree ideas for the back of the property.