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What kind of tree produces these seed pods looking like spiky balls?
That is a sweet gum tree.
The distinctive compound fruit is hard, dry, and globose,1–1.5 inches (25–38 mm) in diameter, composed of numerous (40-60) capsules.[13] Each capsule, containing one to two ...
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Are these rowan berries? Yes or no, are they edible?
The rowan tree's leaves grow in opposite pairs off the stem, not alternately as shown here, and its fruits are red.
I suggest that the tree is bird cherry or prunus avium and its fruits are bitter.
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What is this tree with shiny leaves and a fuzzy seed pod?
That's a magnolia tree.
I first saw one in Delaware in the dead of winter encased in ice after an ice storm. All the other trees had dropped their leaves, but the magnolia doesn't shed its thick ...
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What kind of tree produces these long multi-seed pods?
After waiting months for the leaves to return on the tree and reading the comment made by Jamesqf, this is a Honey Locust Tree.
On the Wikipedia page for the tree, there is a picture that matches ...
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Do golden color pine trees associate with the name of Fluffy?
What you have there is almost certainly a variety of Chameacyparis lawsoniana. These trees are characterized by the flattened scale-like leaves in a fairly dense branching cluster. Wate's golden pine ...
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Help identifying berry (maybe elderberry?)
Now we know the size of the leaves that's a Cherry Laurel, either Carolina Laurel (leaves look a better match) or English Laurel. The fruit will all turn purple in the next few weeks. One of my ...
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Can you identify these trees from the logs?
#9 is a Plane tree (Platanus) species. Probably American Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)in the USA. The bark is characteristic of these trees.
I would guess that #'s 1, 2, 3 and possibly 4 all come ...
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Do Redwood Trees grow in families?
Former botanist here.
It is not uncommon for this sort of behaviour to happen in the botanical world. There are many forms of this sort of thing, the most commonly seen one is coppicing. Coppicing is ...
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Which tree produces heart shaped seeds enveloped in a long pod?
With pictures posted, it looks like it is the African tulip tree (Spathodea campanulata). The decisive features were the long pod with the pores. Similar (but not as strongly heart-shaped) seeds are ...
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What is this tree with shiny leaves and a fuzzy seed pod?
100% magnolia, I have 3 of them in my yard. Beautiful trees, have very fragrant blossoms in the spring and summer.
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What is this type of tree?
Hard to identify from the pictures, but I am pretty sure it is a birch tree.
The white spots on the bark and the structure of the leafs are a good indicators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch
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Can anyone help to identify this tree with strange green flower/fruit in North Georgia woods?
This is not a pawpaw, or even a tree! This strange substance on the tree is actually a parasitic fungi of the genus Exobasidium in the family Exobasidiaceae.
Therefore I will identify the fungi and ...
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Do Redwood Trees grow in families?
Coast Redwoods don't often reproduce from seed. Instead, they sprout from a (live) stump or from the base, trunk, or roots near the trunk of a living tree.
And yes, this commonly causes a "fairy&...
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What kind of tree produces these long multi-seed pods?
I am going to say that the tree belongs to the Catalpa family. Here is a picture of the green bean pods.
In the autumn they bear 20–50 centimetres (7.9–19.7 in) long fruits that resemble a slender ...
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