That's right—one more way to ID your tree is by taking a whiff of its bark. While not all trees will have a distinct odor, some do. According to the National Park Service , the Ponderosa pine ...

The five most common maple trees are red maple, sugar maple, silver maple, boxelder, and bigleaf. Learn how to identify each of these fascinating species.

Wojtech will share his knowledge about local tree identification and bark at his lecture, "Bark: Get to Know Your Trees", at the Darien Library on Tuesday, Feb. 2 at 7 p.m.

Both of these free mobile apps help to identify tree species with photos of the leaf. Also, the apps provide beautiful high-resolution images of their flowers, fruit, petiole, seeds and bark.

But even the trees whose bark can accurately be described as rough and brown are pretty easy to identify with little practice. Few tree books have good photographs of bark, but the two I own that ...

Sometimes in my wanderings after the leaves are off the trees I come across enormous or otherwise intriguing trees and wonder what they are. Since I'm always walking amongst them, I'd just like to ...

Training one’s eye to identify trees is a fun way to connect with the world around us and can be useful for making home landscape selections. Identifying trees by their bark | All Access ...

Every species of tree has unique characteristics, from its bark to its leaves, that you can use as clues to identify ...

Identify the symptoms. These vary from species to species, but they typically include tiny little pinholes in the tree bark and sawdustlike powder, called frass, around the holes.