List: tree types
I have so many thoughts about the election, but so far they remain a tangle of nettlesome threads.
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If I could remember where on Twitter I read the suggestion of making (alphabetical) lists to relieve anxiety, I would give that person credit.
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These are off the top of my head.
A – alder, ash, aspen, avocado, apple, acacia, almond
B – beech, birch, banyan, baobab, bottle, banana, blue spruce, bald cypress, boxwood
C – cherry, crab apple, catalpa, cottonwood, crape myrtle, cacao, coffee, chestnut, cinnamon
D – dogwood
E – elder, elm, ebony
F – fir, fig
G – gum
H – hawthorn, honey locust, holly, hemlock, hickory, hackberry, hazelnut
I – ironwood
J – jack pine, jacaranda
K – kauri, kumquat, Kentucky coffee
L – lime, linden, lemon, live oak
M – maple, magnolia, mesquite, mahogany, madrone, mangrove, mango, mountain laurel
O – olive, osage orange, oak
P – pear, persimmon, paw paw, pecan, peach, papaya
Q – quince, queen of heaven*
R – rhododendron, rowan, redwood, redbud
S – staghorn sumac, sycamore, sweetgum, sourwood, sassafras, serviceberry, sequoia
T – tulip poplar, teak
W – willow, walnut, witch hazel
Y – yew, yellowwood
*apparently the common name is actually “tree of heaven”, Ailanthus altissima
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