Tree of the Week: Chokecherry
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By: Mark Halpin, Forestry Manager Chokecherry, bitter cherry, bitter berry, bird cherry – none of the common names assigned to Prunus virginiana make it sound like something you’d want to […]
Tree of the Week: Flowering Dogwood
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Legendary plantsman Michael Dirr calls Cornus florida, the flowering dogwood, “the aristocrat of native flowering trees”, and who could disagree? The white flowers (pink on some cultivars) are not actually […]
Tree of the Week: Redbud
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Flowering dogwood might be our state tree, but Eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis) is our most reliably beautiful flowering tree. It’s ubiquitous both as a cultivated plant and as a volunteer […]
Tree of the Week: Serviceberry
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Serviceberry (Amelanchier spp., in our region typically A. canadensis, A. arborea and A. x grandiflora) has easily climbed its way to the top of nearly every list you’ll see of […]
Tree of the Week: Yoshino Cherry
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For over 1000 years, the people of Japan have observed the spring tradition of hanami, “flower viewing,” which does not just refer to any old flower. The sakura, the illustrious […]
Tree of the Week: Lacebark Pine
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Missouri is not a great place to grow needled evergreens. We have only two natives of this description, shortleaf pine and eastern red cedar, that favor the rocky hills of […]
Tree of the Week: Callery Pear
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#treeoftheweek is #callerypear Each April, like a spring snow storm, a thick blanket of brilliant white flowers covers the trees lining many of Missouri’s major highways, and each spring it […]