10 secrets to identifying trees

You don’t have to be an expert yourself to inspire children to take a closer look at trees. Here are 10 ideas to get started

can also help ID trees. For instance, trees with smooth, unbroken bark could be beech or red maple; peeling bark can mean sycamore or birch.Photograph by Nadya So / Getty ImagesEven the ridges of the bark can provide some clues: White ash bark has vertical ridges that intersect, but northern red oak bark has vertical uninterrupted ridges. Bark from the white oak has horizontal ridges.

Junipers are different from pines—they don’t have the typical-looking cones but instead show off what look like large blue berries. Douglas firs have more distinctive cones than other pines, with “mouse-tailed bracts” that look like three-pronged tongues sticking out from the cones’ scales.blooms can also help narrow down the ID. For example, some dogwoods and black locust trees both have white flowers—but black locust flowers grow in bunches, and dogwood flowers are scattered throughout.

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