Directory of Tree Identification Resources

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Woody plants belong to many different plant families and these families may be made up of both woody and non-woody members. This category brings together sites on tree identification which cannot be covered adequately in the category Plantae where plants are arranged taxonomically in families.

Resources in This Category

• About.com - A Tree Leaf Key

  http://forestry.about.com/library/treekey/bltree_key_id_start.htm
  A quick leaf guide for identification of over 50 common North American trees.

• Dendrology at Virginia Tech

  http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/factsheets.cfm
  Includes ID keys and fact sheets on over 900 species of wild and cultivated trees in North America.

• Fact Sheets for 680 Trees

  http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/database/trees/trees_scientific.shtml
  Descriptions, illustrations, US range maps and cultivation of species from around the world.

• Palm Tree Photo Gallery

  http://www.junglemusic.net/palmgallery.htm
  Over a thousand photographs of palms from around the world.

• Plant Kaleidoscope

  http://www.biologie.uni-ulm.de/systax/dendrologie/
  Large image gallery of cultivated woody plants in Europe.

• Taxonomy of Woody Plants

  http://members.tripod.com/~Hatch_L/tlan.html
  Links on woody plant taxonomy including original identification keys to major genera.

• Tree Identification Expert

  http://www.st-tech.com/tree/tree-identification.aspx
  Offers software which identifies northern forest trees. Includes details of the trees covered and an FAQ.

• Tree-Identification.com

  http://www.tree-identification.com/
  Provides information about the general identification of trees as well as more specific techniques for a limited number of species. Includes information about dendrology.

• Trees Identification

  http://trees.luidp.net/en/
  Provides help with tree identification.

• What Tree is it?

  http://www.oplin.org/tree/
  Tree identification. Especially useful way to work from the shapes of leaves.

 

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