Create a digital tree collection from 7 different softwood tree species and 24 different hardwood tree species. As you build your collection, you will identify various parts of each tree.  Your collection must include the following:

  • Scientific name
  • Commercial uses
  • One picture of each of the following items:
    • leaf for each tree
    • seed
    • tree bark
    • tree twig
    • one of the following, depending on what the tree may produce:
      • fruit
      • cones
      • catkins
      • seeds with wings
      • pods
      • nuts

You must identify each of these items for the following species that are regularly commercially harvested trees in the south.

  1. Longleaf Pine
  2. Loblolly Pine
  3. Shortleaf Pine
  4. Eastern Hemlock
  5. Eastern Redcedar
  6. Eastern White Pine
  7. Slash Pine
  8. Overcup Oak
  9. Post Oak
  10. Chestnut Oak
  11. Southern Red Oak
  12. Cherrybark Oak
  13. Water Oak
  14. Willow Oak
  15. White Ash
  16. American Beech
  
  1. Eastern Cottonwood
  2. Pignut Hickory
  3. Yellow Birch
  4. American Elm
  5. Slippery Elm
  6. Cedar Elm
  7. Sweetgum
  8. Water Tupelo
  9. Pecan
  10. Southern Magnolia
  11. Silver Maple
  12. Red Maple
  13. American Sycamore
  14. Yellow Poplar
  15. Black Willow

Complete each page of the Tree Collection PowerPoint and make sure to find all of the identifying factors required for each tree.  Try to use the GRIN or Virginia Technology resource links below. If you find a tree that does not have all of the parts listed, you may have to search for some images. (Be aware that some of the image results from a search engine may not be properly identified!) 

  
GRIN Taxonomy for Plants:

  1. Place each tree’s common name listed in the search block for Common name of the tree
  2. Click the button at the top that says submit query
  3. Click on the scientific name of the plant on the query results page
  4. At the top of the next page, look for several green bars and click images.  This will help you collect data and accurate images of your trees.

Virginia Technology Tree ID:

  1. Place the common name of the tree in the section for the common name
  2. Click the button Display Matching Species

 

When you are finished, submit your tree collection to the 5.04 Tree Collection Dropbox. Remember, you will be taking a tree identification quiz in this unit and this work will help you develop the ability to identify commercially grown trees. Use this project to help you study as you learn to identify these trees of the south.

Complete the 5.04 Quiz in the Quizzes area.

When you are ready, take the Unit 5 Test in the Quizzes area.

 

 

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