Nominate a Tree

City: Dallas

  • Arborvitae, Oriental

    The Oriental Arborvitae grows to heights between 18 and 25 feet in a dense, compact, conical or columnar HABIT. Its width is usually from 10 to 15 feet in range. The branches start off growing vertically, but tend to relax and open up as the tree matures. Bagworms and spider mites are common insects associated…

  • Ash, White

    The White Ash is found in East Texas to the valley of the Trinity River. It grows best in the rich moist soils of the upper bottomlands. The BARK is gray and furrowed the branchlets smooth and gray with rust-colored winter buds. BUDS on TWIGS are set down into the leaf scars. The compound opposite…

  • Ash, White

    The White Ash is found in East Texas to the valley of the Trinity River. It grows best in the rich moist soils of the upper bottomlands. The BARK is gray and furrowed the branchlets smooth and gray with rust-colored winter buds. BUDS on TWIGS are set down into the leaf scars. The compound opposite…

  • Cypress, Bald

    The BALD CYPRESS grows in swamps which are flooded for prolonged periods, and on wet stream banks and bottomlands. It occurs in East Texas west to the Nueces River and also along streams and rivers of Central Texas. The straight trunk has numerous ascending branches, and narrow conical outline. In old age the tree generally…

  • Banana Shrub

    Michelia figo or BANANA SHRUB ( aka Port Wine Magnolia, and Magnolia figo) is a beautiful, slow growing, drought tolerant, evergreen tree growing up to 6-10 feet tall and nearly as wide. Dense, upright open oval to rounded habit that can be severely pruned. Michelia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the Magnolia…

  • Blackgum

    The Black Gum, often called Sour Gum or Black Tupelo, is found in eastern Texas to the valley of the Brazos river; usually in swampy wet soil, but sometimes on dry slopes with the oaks. The LEAVES are simple, 2 to 3 inches long, entire, obovate to elliptic, shiny, and dark green in color. In…

  • Buckeye, Horsechesnut

    Aesculus hippocastanum, a large deciduous tree, commonly known as BUCKEYE, horsechestnut or conker tree. Although the horsechestnut is sometimes known as the buckeye, this name is generally reserved for the new world members of the Aesculus genus. Native to a small area in the Pindus Mountains mixed forests and Balkan mixed forests of South East…

  • Buckeye, Red

    The Red Buckeye, native to the southeastern U.S. grows to heights normally between 10 and 20 feet with crown spreads having the same range. The tree can grow in sun or shade with wet or moist loam soil. Webworms and leaf spots are both problems known to be associated with the tree, although they are…

  • Buckeye, Texas or White

    The Texas Buckeye is now classified as a western, shrubby variety of Ohio Buckeye reaching its largest size (up to 50 feet) in the hard limestone of the central Edwards Plateau, although it also occurs in the northern Blacklands, Cross Timbers and Prairies, Pineywoods, and Post Oak Savannah. An ideal ornamental specimen for a small…

  • Catalpa, Southern

    The Catalpa is found naturalized in eastern and North Texas and occurs in various qualities of soils, most frequently on rich, moist bottoms. It is typically a medium-sized tree, rarely exceeding 50 ft. in height and 15 inches in diameter. The trunk is usually relatively short and the head broad with spreading branches. The BARK…