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  • Pine, Loblolly

    This fast-growing “yellow pine” is the most abundant and valuable species in East Texas from Orange county westward to Walker and Waller Counties. The species is also abundant northward to the Oklahoma line. The Loblolly pine also constitutes the pine of the “Lost Pine Region” in the vicinity of Bastrop. The Loblolly invades abandoned fields…

  • Eastern Redcedar

    The Eastern red cedar is a tree of oval, columnar, or pyramidal form and pointed at the apex. This species is the tallest of the junipers, with individuals sometimes reaching nearly 100 feet, but usually between 30 and 40 feet in height and a diameter 1 to 3 feet at breast height. The species usually…

  • Western Soapberry

    Western soapberry is a small tree that grows to 35 feet. The mature tree has a rounded crown and a trunk that measures up to two feet in diameter. The tree grows along fence rows and river valleys from Louisiana west across the southern Plains and into the Chihuahua and Sonora Deserts, but it is…

  • Eastern Redcedar

  • Oak, Water

    Water oak is a tall slender tree that reaches 50′ to 80′ in height. It is characterized as having a rounded crown that is symmetrical in shape. It is a medium-sized deciduous tree, growing to 30 m (100 ft) tall with a trunk up to 1 m (3 ft) in diameter. Water Oak is adapted…

  • Persimmon, Common

  • Oak, Blackjack

    Quercus marilandica (Blackjack oak) is a small oak, one of the red oak group Quercus sect. Lobatae, but fairly isolated from the others. It is native to the southern and central United States. The Blackjack oak grows in poor, thin, dry, rocky or sandy soils where few other woody plants can thrive, usually on low…

  • Hercules Club, Prickly Ash

    This tree is a native of East Texas and ranges westward to the valley of the Colorado River and northward to Dallas and Tarrant Counties, and to some extent, southward to the Rio Grande Valley. It is a small tree, seldom over 30 feet in height, with a short trunk usually under 1 foot in…

  • Dogwood, Flowering

    The Dogwood grows in the forests of eastern Texas, usually under the larger forest trees. It is a small tree, up to 30 feet high and 12 inches in diameter, occasionally larger, with a rather flat and spreading crown and short, often crooked trunk. The BARK is reddish-brown to black and broken up into small…

  • Oak, Durand

    The Durand Oak is often 60-90 feet high with a tall trunk 2-3 feet in diameter; comparatively small branches, lower horizontal, upper ascending, forming a dense round-topped head. In the bayou region of the South, and on the dry prairies of the East it is a fine, tall irregularly shaped tree, with lumber equal to…