Cornus alternifolia 'W. Stackman' (GOLDEN SHADOWS® Pagoda Dogwood PP11287), leaf, spring (3.65062)
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Cornus alternifolia 'W. Stackman' (GOLDEN SHADOWS® Pagoda Dogwood PP11287), leaf, spring
Tree Portraits: Kentucky Coffeetree (3.31858)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Kentucky coffeetree tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf and drawings of its seeds and twig. Tape adhered to bottom left corner indicates assigned letter.
Descriptive text in bottom left:
- R
Extent: 1 sheet
Exhibits: Beall Woods trees, various oaks (3.34251)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit board created by Elizabeth Zimmerman for The Morton Arboretum, depicting drawings of various leaves, trunks, and fruit from oak trees found in Beall Woods.
Labels:
- --- / Oak
- Chinquapin Oak
- Shingle Oak
- Overcup [Oak]
Extent: 1 slide
Abeliophyllum distichum Nakai (white-forsythia), leaves (3.81499)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abeliophyllum distichum Nakai (white-forsythia), pointed simple leaves, green and red colored leaves, oval shaped leaves, grey brown thin branch flared out to three thin light brown stems
Extent: 1 slide
Pinus heldreichii (Heldreich Pine), leaf, mature (3.61102)
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus heldreichii (Heldreich Pine), leaf, mature
Cornus racemosa (Gray Dogwood), leaf, lower surface (3.65332)
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Cornus racemosa (Gray Dogwood), leaf, lower surface
Tree Portraits: Staghorn Sumac (3.31833)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a staghorn sumac tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf and drawing of flower. Tape adhered to bottom left corner indicates assigned letter.
Descriptive text in bottom left:
- l
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: River Birch 2 (3.31903)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a River Birch tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf.
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Bur Oak (3.31826)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a bur oak tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf. Tape adhered to bottom left corner indicates assigned letter.
Descriptive text in bottom left:
- d
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Hawthorn 3 (3.31896)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a hawthorn tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf.
Extent: 1 sheet
Quercus rubra (northern red oak), new leaves, buds (3.57756)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus rubra (northern red oak), closeup detail of new leaves, pinkish-red in color, budding from a twig, set against black backdrop
Extent: 1 slide
Carya ovata (shagbark hickory), unfolding leaves (3.64059)
Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (shagbark hickory), closeup of reddish scales of bud split and opened into flower-like petals surrounding newly emerged, furled green leaves
Extent: 1 slide
Acer palmatum ‘Dissectum Atropurpureum’ (Cut-leaved Purple Japanese maple), leaves (3.38040)
Type: Photographic image
Description: Acer palmatum ‘Dissectum Atropurpureum’ (Cut-leaved Purple Japanese maple), closeup detail of ferny, lace-like purple foliage
Extent: 1 slide
Tree Portraits: Unidentified tree 1 (3.31819)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of an unidentified tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf. Tab taped to bottom left corner includes assigned number.
Descriptive text in bottom left tab:
- 36
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Lacebark Elm (3.31878)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a lacebark elm, or Chinese elm, tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf.
Extent: 1 sheet
Single leaf in a swirl of snow (3.38467)
Creator: Korling, Torkel
Type: Photographic image
Description:Single leaf in a swirl of snow
Extent: 1 photograph
Tree Portraits: Hawthorn 2 (3.31863)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Hawthorn tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf.
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf casts (3.34284)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Three decorative plaster casts of leaves created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum. The casts on the left and right are unidentified, while the cast in the center depicts a leaf from a tulip tree, labeled as follows:
- TULIP TREE
- LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA
Extent: 1 slide
Tree Portraits: Butternut (3.31855)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a butternut, or white walnut, tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, and a drawings of its seeds and chambered pith. Tape adhered to bottom right corner indicates assigned letter.
Descriptive text in bottom right:
- o
Extent: 1 sheet
Educational charts: Tree Lotto (3.34245)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting 16 unlabeled leaf silhouettes in 4 columns of 4. The chart may have been used for game of "tree lotto."
Extent: 1 slide
Dogwoods in Fall, Washington, D.C. (3.36826)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Dogwood trees and understory with fallen leaves, located in Washington. D.C.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Acer japonicum (Fullmoon maple), leaves and flower (3.37526)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer japonicum (Fullmoon maple), closeup detail of leaves that are almost circular with many short lobes and reddish flower
Extent: 1 slide
Striped leaves on plant at University of Illinois (3.37760)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Striped leaves on plant at University of Illinois
Extent: 1 negative
Tree Portraits: Tulip-tree (3.31830)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a tulip-tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf and a drawing of flower. Tape adhered to bottom left corner indicates assigned letter.
Descriptive text in bottom left:
- h
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Persimmon 2 (3.31900)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a persimmon tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf and a drawing of a twig with fuit.
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Redbud (3.31823)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a redbud tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, and a drawing of a seed pod. Tape adhered to bottom left corner indicates assigned letter.
Descriptive text in bottom left:
- b
Extent: 1 sheet
Quercus alba (white oak), new leaves (3.38321)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus alba (white oak), cluster of soft downy pinkish and curled new leaves
Extent: 1 slide
Tree Portraits: Crabapple (3.31893)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a crabapple, or possibly hawthorn, tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf.
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Catalpa (3.31816)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a catalpa tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf. Tab taped to bottom right corner includes descriptive text and assigned number.
Descriptive text in bottom right tab:
- whorled
- 10
- OPPOSITE
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Hackberry (3.31870)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a hackberry tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf.
Extent: 1 sheet
Boxelder and Poison Ivy (3.34341)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A display depicting boxelder and poison ivy leaves and stems.
Extent: 1 slide
Cornus alternifolia 'W. Stackman' (GOLDEN SHADOWS® Pagoda Dogwood PP11287), leaf, upper surface (3.65063)
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Cornus alternifolia 'W. Stackman' (GOLDEN SHADOWS® Pagoda Dogwood PP11287), leaf, upper surface
Cornus sanguinea 'Winter Flame' (Winter Flame Blood-twigged Dogwood), leaf, young (3.65346)
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Cornus sanguinea 'Winter Flame' (Winter Flame Blood-twigged Dogwood), leaf, young
Tree Portraits: White ash (3.31859)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a white ash, or American ash, tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf. Tape adhered to bottom right corner indicates assigned letter.
Descriptive text in bottom right:
- S
Extent: 1 sheet
Exhibits: Beall Woods trees, detailed bark and leaves (3.34252)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit board created by Elizabeth Zimmerman for The Morton Arboretum, depicting detailed drawings of the leaves, bark, and a flower found on trees in Beall Woods.
Labels:
- Hackberry
- Tulip - / "Yellow Poplar"
- Sugarberry
- Dogwood
- Sour Gum -
- Sweet / Gum -
Extent: 1 slide
Ginkgo biloba (ginkgo), fruit and leaves (3.37026)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ginkgo biloba (ginkgo), detail of leaves with fruit
Extent: 1 slide