HARDWOOD
WINTER ID KEY
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You selected:  An alternately-branched
shrub with single or absent terminal buds.
Smooth bark.  Twigs are bitter tasting.
Note:  There are 3 choices on this page!

  7.  Lower trunk bark might be flaky,
        but upper bark is smooth and gray.
        Small buds are sharp-pointed.
        If so, try black cherry.

          or

  7.  Bark gray with large "patches" across stems.
        Terminal bud is 1-2 times longer than wide.
        If so, try shrub cherries.

          or

  7.  Terminal buds usually more than
        4 times longer than wide.
        Bitter taste may not be very strong.
        If so, try juneberry.

CAREFULLY read each option
on the right.  This is the
hardest key to work through.
Pick the one that is closest
to your sample or describes
what you remember from
where you saw the tree.
Click on the "key" icon wpeF.jpg (1022 bytes)
to go to the next set of choices.

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wpe5.jpg (2127 bytes)U.P. TREE  IDENTIFICATION  KEY
from Michigan State University Extension

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