The swollen, copper-colored trunk of a mature Elephant Tree, White Tank Mountains, Arizona. Photo: Dominic Sherony / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Bursera microphylla, commonly
A mature Bigcone Douglas-fir rising above chaparral in Big Santa Anita Canyon, San Gabriel Mountains. Photo: OctopusHat / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Pseudotsuga macrocarpa,
Texas Walnut growing in its typical wild habitat: a rocky, dry wash at Slaughter Canyon, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico. Photo: JerryFriedman, via Wikimedia
A mature Paurotis Palm clump showing its signature habit: dozens of slender trunks of different heights rising together from a single root mass. Photo: Daderot,
Mexican Ash leafing out in spring, with new pinnately compound foliage emerging alongside clusters of small flowers. Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, via Wikimedia Commons (CC
A wild Florida Thatch Palm growing in pine rockland on Big Pine Key, part of its last stronghold in the Lower Florida Keys. Photo: Ezra
The crown of a Florida Silver Palm, its fan fronds flashing silvery-white underneath as they turn in the breeze, photographed near Bahia Honda Key. Photo:
A mature Anacua with the gnarled, fluted multi-trunk form and rounded evergreen crown typical of old specimens. Photo: David J. Stang, via Wikimedia Commons (CC
West Indian Mahogany with its characteristic rounded, spreading crown, Shark Valley, Everglades National Park. Photo: Daderot, Wikimedia Commons (CC0) Swietenia mahagoni, the West Indian Mahogany,
Swamp Tupelo growing with the classic flared trunk base of a permanently wet Coastal Plain swamp. Photo: Ryan Watson, iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0) Nyssa biflora,
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