Identifier

3.24636

Type

Drawing

Date created

1943

Description

Page 4 of 4, illustrations showing identifying characteristics of different types of winter twigs, created to accompany "Winter Twigs" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Original identifying text has detached and is no longer present.

Illustrations are divided into seven sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:

1) [Original text] TREES WITH FLATTENED YELLOWISH BUDS

• Bitternut hickory -- Carya cordiformis
• Witch-hazel -- Hamamelis virginiana

2) [Original text] TREES WITH LONG NARROW BUDS

• Shadbush -- Amelanchier canadensis
• Beech -- Fagus grandifolia

3) [Original text] U-SHAPED BUNDLE SCARS, DIAPHRAGMED PITH

• Black walnut -- Juglans nigra
• Butternut -- Juglans cinerea

4) [Original text] TREES WITH  GREEN TWIGS

• Sassafras -- Sassafras albidum

5) [Original text] LARGE END BUD WITH LOOSE, DARK OUTER SCALES

• Shagbark hickory -- Carya ovata 

6) [Original text] DARK RED WINTER BUDS

• Linden -- Tilia americana 
• Mountain ash -- Sorbus
• Sour gum -- Nyssa sylvatica 

7) [Original text] DOWNY WHITE BUDS

• Silver poplar -- Populus alba

Appeared In

Morton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, Vol. 18, no. 11, p. 61-64.