Leaf Identification

Nature is a language, Can't you read?

 

Learning how to describe leaves helps:

  • In identification
  • The individual communicate characteristics of a tree or bush to another.

The American Ash Tree

Fraxinus americana

  • A criss-cross patterning
  • Bark Peels
  • impacted by the Emerald Ash borer

Emerald Ash borer

Leaf Identification

  • A Pinnately Compound Leaf (depend on location of the bud)
  • opposite arrangement of leaves
  • pinnate venation
  • Elliptical leaf shape
  • leaf margins entire (no serration)

Your Turn!

 

Fill out your forms for each of the tree samples that you have

Leaf Identification

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Leaf Identification

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