Since the start of the year, we have been received spruce samples showing needle thinning, browning, and loss in the lower canopy (Fig 1, 2, 3). If I said these are Colorado Blue Spruce, we could call ...

A conifer is a needle leaf plant that produces seeds in cones. Juniper, arborvitae, spruce, pine, etc. are all conifers. The plants we will describe below are not true conifers, but are conifer-like.

Needles are "singly wrapped around the twig and between .75 to 1.25 inches long with a white line underneath." They are deciduous, falling off in winter, and not prickly.

Examples of trees with simple leaves are tuliptree (our state tree), oaks, eastern redbud, and maples (except boxelder, a maple sometimes called ash-leaf maple). Examples of compound leaves include ...

First, is it a simple leaf (one leaf blade), or a compound leaf (many leaflets that comprise the overall leaf). Examples of trees with simple leaves are tuliptree (our state tree), oaks, eastern ...