Woody Plant Identification
Anacua
• Leaves big and green • Feels like sandpaper.
Ash
• Smooth leaves • white stem• long tear drop seeds in bunches.
Brasil
• black berries• long thorns • stemmed leaflets grow out of thorns.
Catclaw acacia
• Striped bark • catclaw shaped thorns
Cedar elm
• serrated leaf margins • no thorns.
Cenizo
• silverish-white leaves• purple flowers • does not have thorns.
Ebony
• Tiny spike like thorns ,side-by-side • opposite leaf pattern. • large seed pods
Granjeno
• Thorns V-shaped pattern that eventually turn into stems.
• zig-zag shaped patterned stems• little orange berries.
Guajillo
• Large fern like leaves• small black thorns.
Guayacan
• no thorns. • leaves resemble the shape of tiny moose
antlers.
Hackberry
• leaves are rough in texture • tiny little purple berries • No thorns.
Huisache
• small V-shaped white thorns• small leaves• reddish color bark.
Lime Prickly Ash
• small thorns, double catclaw @ base • veins going through the stem and leaves.
Live Oak
• smooth leaves• small acorn seeds
Mesquite
• leaves have wishbone shaped pattern • mid sized thorns• Green or yellow pod
Palo Verde
• A tree with green bark and has no thorns.
Retama
• green bark• yellowish red thorns• Long leaves with leaflets
Salt Cedar
• Tall tree with aqua color to grayish color shoe string type leaves.
Tasajillo
• Cactus like tree with thorns on the stems
Texas Persimmon
• leaves that are cupped on the leaf margins.
Wild Olive
• white flowers • grayish rough bark • large velvety leaves• Olive-like fruit
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