This tutorial teaches how to identify trees by their leaves and bark. It covers leaf type, arrangement, structure, and margins, as well as bark textures. The tutorial includes slides on each topic and a quiz to test identification. After completing the tutorial, users can apply their new skills to identify real trees outside.

1. What Tree Is It? A Tutorial About Identifying Trees

2. Introduction This tutorial introduces several concepts that will help you identify trees. After you complete the tutorial you can go out into a wooded area with a tree identification book and start to identify the trees that grow near where you live. “Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.” Chinese proverb

3. Introduction (cont’d) Manually click through the slides that describe how to identify leaves and bark. Then take the quiz. “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. Part 1: Identifying Leaves Leaf Type Leaf Arrangement Leaf Structure Leaf Margins

5. Leaf Type (Overall form) Scale-like Needles Broad and flat

6. Leaf Type (Overall form) Scale-like Needles Broad and flat

7. Leaf Type (Overall form) Scale-like Needles Broad and flat

8. Leaf Type (Overall form) Scale-like Needles Broad and flat

9. Leaf Arrangement (How the leaf attaches to the branch) Alternate Opposite Whorled

10. Leaf Arrangement (How the leaf attaches to the branch) Alternate Opposite Whorled

11. Leaf Arrangement (How the leaf attaches to the branch) Alternate Opposite Whorled

12. Leaf Arrangement (How the leaf attaches to the branch) Alternate Opposite Whorled

13. Leaf Structure Simple Compound Small “leaves” on a compound leaf are called leaflets. Palmate Pinnate

14. Leaf Structure Simple Compound Small “leaves” on a compound leaf are called leaflets. Palmate Pinnate

15. Leaf Structure Simple Compound Small “leaves” on a compound leaf are called leaflets. Palmate Pinnate

16. Leaf Structure Simple Compound Small “leaves” on a compound leaf are called leaflets. Palmate Pinnate

17. Leaf Structure Simple Compound Small “leaves” on a compound leaf are called leaflets. Palmate Pinnate

18. Leaf Margins(What the edges of the leaves look like) Entire Serrate Double Serrate Dentate Lobed

19. Leaf Margins(What the edges of the leaves look like) Entire Serrate Double Serrate Dentate Lobed

20. Leaf Margins(What the edges of the leaves look like) Entire Serrate Double Serrate Dentate Lobed

21. Leaf Margins(What the edges of the leaves look like) Entire Serrate Double Serrate Dentate Lobed

22. Leaf Margins(What the edges of the leaves look like) Entire Serrate Double Serrate Dentate Lobed

23. Leaf Margins(What the edges of the leaves look like) Entire Serrate Double Serrate Dentate Lobed

24. Part 2: Tree Bark Smooth Furrowed Scaly Shaggy Papery

25. Part 2: Tree Bark Smooth Furrowed Scaly Shaggy Papery

26. Part 2: Tree Bark Smooth Furrowed Scaly Shaggy Papery

27. Part 2: Tree Bark Smooth Furrowed Scaly Shaggy Papery

28. Part 2: Tree Bark Smooth Furrowed Scaly Shaggy Papery

29. Part 2: Tree Bark Smooth Furrowed Scaly Shaggy Papery

30. Tree Identification Quiz On each of the following pages you will see pictures of the leaves and bark of a specific tree. There will also be three descriptions. You have to choose the correct description. The following page will tell you if you have chosen the correct description.

31. Tree ID Quiz 1 Description A Leaves: scale-like Bark: furrowed Description B Leaves: needles Bark: furrowed Description C Leaves: needles Bark: shaggy

32. Tree ID Quiz Answer 1 Hemlock Tree (Description B) Leaves: needles Bark: furrowed

33. Tree ID Quiz 2 Description A Leaves: flat, simple, entire, opposite Bark: shaggy Description B Leaves: flat, compound, serrate, opposite Bark: furrowed Description C Leaves: flat, compound, entire, opposite Bark: shaggy

34. Tree ID Quiz Answer 2 Shagbark Hickory (Description C) Leaves: flat, compound, entire, opposite Bark: shaggy

35. Tree ID Quiz 3 Description A Leaves: needle, compound, double serrate alternate Bark: smooth Description B Leaves: flat, simple, double serrate, opposite Bark: papery Description C Leaves: flat, simple, lobed, opposite Bark: papery

36. Tree ID Answer 3 Silver Beech (Description B) Leaves: flat simple, double serrate, opposite Bark: papery

37. Tree ID Quiz 4 Description A Leaves: flat, simple, pointed lobes, alternate Bark: smooth and flakey Description B Leaves: flat, simple, entire, opposite Bark: papery Description C Leaves: flat, compound, lobed, opposite Bark: smooth, flakey

38. Tree ID Answer 4 American Sycamore (Description A) Leaves: flat, simple, pointed lobes, alternate Bark: smooth and flakey

39. Congratulations… …you have completed the tree identification tutorial. It is time to find some real trees to identify. "Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees." -- Karle Wilson Baker