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Forest Trees of Texas: How to Know Them

Chapter 180: Index
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A practical field guide that explains tree structure and growth—roots, cambium, sapwood, heartwood, leaves, and reproductive parts—and how water, minerals, light, and gases support development. It clarifies common classification terms and exceptions, maps major regional forest types, and catalogs native and introduced species with notes on their uses. Identification aids include drawings of leaves, twigs, fruits, keys, and a glossary, while editorial material offers straightforward advice for nontechnical readers on recognizing, managing, and conserving local trees and the forest products they yield.

S
Samara—An indehiscent winged fruit such as that of maple.
Sapwood—The recently formed, usually light colored wood, lying outside of the heartwood.
Scabrous—Rough, with stiff, bristly hairs.
Scales—The small, modified leaves which protect the growing-point of a bud or the part of a cone which bears the seeds. The small flakes into which the other bark of a tree divides.
Scurfy—Covered with small bran-like scales.
Serrate—Having sharp teeth on margin.
Sessile—Seated; without a stalk.
Sheath—A tubular envelope or covering such as surround the base of pine-needles.
Silky—Covered with long, soft, straight, fine hairs.
Simple—Consisting of one part, not compound.
Sinus—The cleft or opening between two lobes.
Sinuate—Wavy.
Softwood—A general term given conifers, the wood of which may or may not be of low density.
Stamen—Male organ of flower. Consists of a pollen-bearing anther on a filament.
Stipule—A leaf-appendage at the base of the leaf-stalk.
Stipule-scar—The scar left by the fall of the stipule.
Stolon—A runner or basal branch that may root.
Striate—Marked with fine elongated ridges or lines.
Striations—Long narrow lines or ridges.
Strobile—A fruit marked by overlapping scales as in the pine, birches, etc.
Sucker—A shoot arising from an underground bud.
Superposed—Said of buds when they are arranged one above the other.
Symmetrical—Regular as to the number of parts. Having the same number of parts in each circle.
T
Terminal—Located at the outer end.
Thorn—A stiff, woody, sharp-pointed projection as found on locust; a spine.
Tolerant—Applied to trees which endure certain factors, particularly shade.
Tomentose—Densely pubescent; hairy. Covered with matted-hairs.
Tomentum—A dense layer of woolly hairs.
Truncate—Ending abruptly, as if cut off at the end.
Tufted—Growing in clusters.
U
Unisexual—Consisting of one sex only, either staminate or pistillate.
V
Valvate—Said of buds in which the scales merely meet without overlapping. Fruit opening by valves.
Veins—Threads of fibro-vascular tissue in leaves or other organs.
W
Whorl—A group of three or more similar organs, as leaves or buds, arranged about the same place of attachment.
Whorled—Borne in a whorl.

Index

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A
Acacia berlandieri 123
Acacia, catclaw 85
Acacia farnesiana, sweet 123
Acacia greggii 85
Acer barbatum 126
Acer grandidentatum 126
Acer grandidentatum var. sinuosum 126
Acer negundo 100
Acer rubrum 99
Acer saccharinum 98
Adelia, common 116
Aesculus glabra 101
Aesculus pavia 101
Ailanthus altissima 125
Alder, hazel, speckled 123
Alnus rugosa 123
Anacahuita 128
Anama 128
Anaqua 128
Apple, hedge 69
Aralia spinosa 104
Arbutus texana 129
Arizona cypress 122
Arrow-wood 125
Ash, Berlandier 128
Ash, Carolina 113
Ash, green 115
Ash, Mexican 128
Ash, poison 95
Ash, prickly 92, 104
Ash, Texas 128
Ash, wafer 93
Ash, water 113
Ash, white 114
Ash juniper 26
Asimina triloba 72
B
Baldcypress 25
Baretta 124
Basswood, American 103
Basswood, Carolina 126
Basswood, Florida 126
Bayberry, Southern 123
Beaded locust (Sophora) 124
Bear berry 124
Beech, American 41
Beech, blue 38
Beech, water 38
Betula, nigra 40
Birch, river (red) 40
Bitternut hickory 30
Blackhead, ebony 84
Blackgum 105
Blackhaw, rusty 121
Bois-d’arc 69
Boxelder 100
Buckeye, Ohio 101
Buckeye, red 101
Buckthorn 127
Buckthorn, wooly 109
Buffaloberry 129
Bumelia, buckthorn, gum, elastic 109
Bumelia lanuginosa 109
Bumelia lanuginosa var. rigida 109
Bumelia, lycioides 109
Bumelia, Texas 127
Burning bush (Euonymous) 125
Buttonbush, common 120
Buttonwood (sycamore) 77
C
Capote 127
Carpinus caroliniana 38
Carya aquatica 31
Carya cordiformis 30
Carya illinoensis 29
Carya ovata 32
Carya texana 34
Carya tomentosa 33
Castanea pumila 42
Catalpa, northern 118
Catalpa, speciosa 118
Catalpa, western 118
Cedar, eastern red 27
Cedar, mountain 26
Celtis laevigata 67
Celtis, occidentalis 66
Cephalanthus occidentalis 120
Cercis canadensis 88
Cherry, black 82
Cherry, southwestern black 82
Chicle 127
Chilopsis linearis 119
Chinaberry 125
China-tree, wild 102
Chinkapin, Allegheny 42
Chionanthus virginicus 117
Chittamwood 125
Coral bean 124
Cordia boisseri 128
Corkwood 35
Cornus florida 107
Cotinus obovatus 126
Cottonwood, eastern 36
Crataegus 78
Crataegus opaca 79
Cupressus arizonica 122
Cypress (baldcypress) 25
D
Desertwillow 119
Devils-walkingstick 104
Diospyros texana 128
Diospyros virginiana 110
Dogwood, flowering 107
E
Ebony, Texas (blackbead) 84
Ehretia anacua 128
Elastic, gum 109
Elaeagnus angustifolia 129
Elm, American 61
Elm, cedar 63
Elm, Chinese 129
Elm, red 64
Elm, Siberian 129
Elm, slippery 64
Elm, water 65
Elm, white 61
Elm, winged 62
Euonymus atropurpureus 125
Euonymus bungeanus 129
F
Fagus grandifolia 41
Farkleberry 108
Fir, Douglas 24
Forestiera acuminata 116
Fraxinus americana 114
Fraxinus berlandieriana 128
Fraxinus caroliniana 113
Fraxinus pennsylvanica 115
Fraxinus texensis 128
Fringetree, white 117
G
Gleditsia aquatica 89, 90
Gleditsia texana 89
Gleditsia triacanthos 89
Grancy-gray beard 117
Great leadtree 124
Gregg leadtree 86, 124
Guaiacum 124
Guajillo 123
Guayacan 124
Gum, black 105
Gum, cotton 106
Gum, elastic 109
Gum, red 76
Gum, sour 105
Gum, sweet 76
Gum, tupelo 106
H
Hackberry 66
Hackberry, sugar 67
Halesia diptera 112
Hamamelis virginiana 75
Haw 78
Haw, rusty black 121
Hawthorn 78
Hawthorn, riverflat 79
Hazel, alder 123
Helietta parvifolia 124
Hercules-club 92, 104
Hickory, bigbud 33
Hickory, bitternut 30
Hickory, black 34
Hickory, mockernut 33
Hickory, pignut 30
Hickory, shagbark 32
Hickory, water 31
Hickory, white 33
Holly, American 96
Honeylocust 89
Hophornbeam, eastern 39
Hoptree, common 93
Hornbeam, American 38
Horse-sugar 111
Huckleberry, tree 108
I
Ilex decidua 97
Ilex opaca 96
Ilex vomitoria 97
Indian soap plant 102
Ironwood 38, 39
J
Judas tree 88
Juglans, microcarpa 28
Juglans, nigra 28
Juniper, alligator 122
Juniper, ashe 26
Juniper, drooping 122
Juniper, Mexican mountain cedar 26
Juniper, one seed 122
Juniper, Rocky Mountain 122
Juniper, weeping 122
Juniperus ashei 26
Juniperus deppeana 122
Juniperus flaccida 122
Juniperus monosperma 122
Juniperus scopulorum 122
Juniperus virginiana 27
K
Knackaway 128
L
Laurel, cherry 83
Laurelcherry, Carolina 83
Leadtree, Gregg 86
Leadtree, Mexicana, great 124
Leitneria floridana 35
Leucaena greggii 86, 124
Leucaena pulverulenta 86, 124
Leucaena retusa 86, 124
Linden, American 103
Liquidambar styraciflua 76
Locust, beaded 124
Locust, black 91
Locust, honey 89
Locust, pink 124
Locust, water 90
Locust, yellow 91
M
Maclura pomifera 69
Madrone, Texas 129
Magnolia, evergreen 70
Magnolia, grandiflora 70
Magnolia, Southern 70
Magnolia, sweetbay 71
Magnolia, virginiana 71
Maple, Florida 126
Maple, mountain, or sugar 126
Maple, red 99
Maple, silver 98
Maple, soft 98, 99
Maple, Southern sugar 126
Maple, Uvalde bigtooth 126
Mayhaw 79
Melia azedarach 125
Mesquite, honey 87
Mimosa 86, 124
Morus alba 68
Morus microphylla 68
Morus rubra 68
Mulberry, red 68
Mulberry, Texas 68
Mulberry, white 68
Myrica cerifera 123
Myrtle, sweet 123
Myrtle, wax 123
N
Necklace tree 124
Northern catalpa 118
Nyssa aquatica 106
Nyssa sylvatica 105
O
Oak, basket 59
Oak, black 45
Oak, blackjack 47
Oak, bluejack 50
Oak, bur 57
Oak, chestnut 59
Oak, chinkapin, chestnut 60
Oak, cow 59
Oak, Durand (white) 54
Oak, Emory 51
Oak, Graves 44
Oak, gray 51
Oak, live 52
Oak, Mexican blue 51
Oak, Mohrs 53
Oak, mossy-cup 57
Oak, overcup 58
Oak, pin 48, 49
Oak, post 56
Oak, red 46
Oak, sandjack 50
Oak, shin 53
Oak, Shumard 43
Oak, Spanish 46
Oak, Southern red 46
Oak, spotted 43
Oak, swamp chestnut 59
Oak, swamp post oak 58
Oak, Texas 44
Oak, water 48, 49
Oak, water white 58
Oak, white 55
Oak, willow 49
Old man’s beard, 117
Olive, Russian 129
Olive, Texas wild 128
Orange, mock 83
Osage-orange 69
Ostrya virginiana 39