Acer griseum (paper-barked maple), bark (3.37514)
Date: March 1986Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer griseum (paper-barked maple), detail of distinctive peeling orange bark
Living Collections Accession Number: 836-58*3
Location on grounds using The Morton Arboretum grid map: E-61/42-81 (Frost Hill)
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), bark (3.37979)
Date: April 1983Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), closeup detail of bark that is furrowed and plated, typical of older trees
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), bark (3.38066)
Date: October 8 2002Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), detail of neatly furrowed bark on tree trunk
Extent: 1 slide
Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn. (European black alder), bark, trunk (3.71502)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn. (European black alder), gray bark in detail. Green area in lower left-hand corner.
Betula nigra L. (river birch), bark (3.71589)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra L. (river birch), grayish brown peeling bark in detail. Half in sun, half in shade.
Cryptomeria japonica (L. f.) D. Don (Japanese-cedar), bark (3.72695)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Cryptomeria japonica (L. f.) D. Don (Japanese-cedar), reddish brown bark
Metasequoia glyptostroboides Hu & W. C. Cheng (dawn-redwood), bark (3.73000)
Date: 2005Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Metasequoia glyptostroboides Hu & W. C. Cheng (dawn-redwood), bark is reddish brown when young but becomes darker fissured and exfoliating in long narrow strips base bittressing and developing an irregular fluted character
Albizia julibrissin var. rosea (Carriere) Mouillefert (pink silk-tree), bark (3.73433)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Albizia julibrissin var. rosea (Carriere) Mouillefert (pink silk-tree), bark is rather smooth and gray-brown with lots of lenticels
Abies concolor (Hook.) Nutt. (white fir), trunk, bark (3.81575)
Date: August 13 2003Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies concolor sp. (white fir), trunk, bark
Extent: 1 slide
Paper-barked maple (Acer griseum) bark (3.36327)
Date: 2010Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Photographic image
Description:Closeup view of cinnamon-colored, peeling paper-barked maple (Acer griseum) bark in summer
Acer pensylvanicum (striped maple), bark (3.38048)
Date: May 20 1983Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer pensylvanicum (striped maple), closeup detail of bark covered in white and gray vertical stripes
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus palustris (pin oak), bark and buds (3.47395)
Date: May 1977Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus palustris (pin oak), two images split, with top image showing detail of relatively smooth gray bark with broad and shallow dark fissures, and bottom image detailing several small, sharp brown buds with scales, clustered at end and near tip of brown twig with lenticels and leaf scar
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus rubra (northern red oak), bark (3.57795)
Date: August 20 1973Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus rubra (northern red oak), closeup detail of dark gray bark with long, broad, smooth ridges and shallow fissures.
Extent: 1 slide
Carya ovata (shagbark hickory), fruit and bark detail (3.64040)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (shagbark hickory), two separate images detailing sections of fruit and trunk, top showing close-up of fragments of fruit with nuts in cross-sections revealing thick fruit husk, ribbed nut, hollow nut shell, nuts and whole seed, and bottom image of mature bark in long flat plates with outwardly curving ends
Extent: 1 slide
Acer griseum (paper-barked maple), winter bark (3.37515)
Date: January 1994Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer griseum (paper-barked maple), detail of orange-brown bark coated in ice during the winter
Extent: 1 slide
Acer miyabei (Miyabe's maple) (3.37545)
Date: October 1994Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer miyabei (Miyabe's maple), characteristic wide branches that sweep low to the ground
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), bark (3.37999)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), part of the trunk of a tree with identification tag that reads "Sugar Maple; Acer saccharum Spontaneous" located near the Administration Building at The Morton Arboretum; bark of trunk is furrowed and plated, indicative of an older tree
Extent: 1 slide
Celtis occidentalis (hackberry), mature bark and buds detail (3.64020)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Celtis occidentalis (hackberry), two separate images detailing sections of trunk and twig, top showing grayish-brown bark with conspicuous warty knobs, and bottom left image of slender brown twig with two alternate buds at tip
Extent: 1 slide
Betula lenta L. (sweet birch), bark (3.71565)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula lenta L. (sweet birch), green and gray bark in detail, white background
Betula nigra L. (river birch), bark (3.71590)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra L. (river birch), grayish brown peeling bark in detail, with a spot of sun on the left, mostly in shade.
Heptacodium miconioides Rehd. (seven-son flower), bark (3.72069)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Heptacodium miconioides Rehd. (seven-son flower), bark, snow in background
Caragana arborescens Lam. (Siberian pea-shrub), bark (3.73469)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Caragana arborescens Lam. (Siberian pea-shrub), bark is gray-brown with multiple lenticels
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), bark (3.37991)
Date: January 1970Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), part of the trunk of a tree with identification tag that reads "Sugar Maple; Acer saccharum Spontaneous"; bark of trunk is furrowed and plated, indicative of an older tree
Extent: 1 slide
Acer rubrum (red maple), bark (3.38151)
Date: December 1981Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer rubrum (red maple), closeup detail of gray, ridged bark on older tree trunk
Extent: 1 slide
Acer griseum (paper-barked maple), bark (3.37518)
Date: October 1958Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer griseum (paper-barked maple), detail of distinctive orange-brown bark peeling and curling
Extent: 1 slide
Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), bark detail (3.37730)
Date: June 1980Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood), detail of greenish bark with deep furrows and ridges
Extent: 1 slide
Acer pensylvanicum (striped maple), bark (3.38049)
Date: October 1973Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer pensylvanicum (striped maple), greenish gray bark with vertical white stripes, 9 inch diameter
Extent: 1 slide
Magnolia acuminata (cucumbertree), detail of bark and bud (3.63694)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Magnolia acuminata (cucumbertree), split image: on the top, a close-up detail of bark that is gray-brown in color and furrowed with straight, flat-topped ridges; on the bottom, a close-up detail of a single large bud, silky gray in color and blunt-tipped.
Extent: 1 slide
Betula nigra 'Little King' (FOX VALLEY® river birch), trunk (3.71568)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra 'Little King' (FOX VALLEY® river birch), multiple trunks in detail, light grayish brown peeling bark, wood chips in foreground, grass in background.
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bark (3.37409)
Date: March 1967Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), detail of gray-brown flaky scales and mottled bark
Extent: 1 slide
Acer miyabei (Miyabe's maple) (3.37546)
Date: October 1994Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer miyabei (Miyabe's maple), characteristic wide branches that sweep low to the ground
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), bark (3.38001)
Date: February 1964Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), closeup detail of furrowed and plated bark indicative of an older tree
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), tree trunks (3.37425)
Date: November 1968Creator: Coulter, Ronald M.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bark on two tree trunks with gray-brown flaky scales and mottled peeling patches of white
Extent: 1 slide
Acer griseum (paper-barked maple), bark and tag (3.37519)
Date: June 7 1985Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer griseum (paper-barked maple), closeup detail of bark with tree tag
Living Collections Accession Number: 592-58*1
Location on grounds using The Morton Arboretum grid map: N-51/50-40 (near Meadow Lake)
Extent: 1 slide
Acer saccharum (sugar maple), leaves and bark (3.37993)
Date: September 5 1974Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (sugar maple), partial view of the trunk of the tree with bark that is slightly furrowed and becoming plated; a few twigs with typical 5-lobed leaves are also visible
Extent: 1 slide
Acer spicatum (mountain maple), bark and leaves (3.38193)
Date: May 1977Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer spicatum (mountain maple), partial view of bark that is slightly grooved and dull brown in color, with dark green leaves that are 3-lobed and heart-shaped at the base
Extent: 1 slide