Hackberry, Sugarberry Scientific Name: Celtis occidentalis
Description: A tree greatly varying in size, 20-70' and occasionally in advantageous situations 130' high, with a trunk diameter of 4'. Bearing a superficial resemblance to the Elms. Bark warm light brown, broken into confluent, discontinuous, irregular, shallow ridges, the large limbs, widely divergent, the branches nearly horizontal.
Habitat: Common in rich woods or on river banks.
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Type: Tree Source:Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs by F. Schuyler Mathews
Photograph: Paul Wray, Iowa State University from www.forestryimages.org. |
