Plant Samples Passes Out
Master Gardener Training, 2020: Plant parts showing various characteristics
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Simple Leaf
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1. Unlobed Rhododendron, Rhododendron
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2. Lobed Japanese Fatsia, Fatsia japonica
Compound Leaf
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3. Pinnate Large pinnate leaf: Heavenly Bamboo, Nandina domestica
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4. Palmate Himalayan Blackberry, Rubus armeniacus
Leaf arrangement
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5. Alternate Pacific Waxmyrtle, Myrica californica
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6. Opposite Laurustinus, Viburnum tinus
Bud arrangement
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7. Alternate winter branch, Oregon White Oak, Quercus garryana
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8. Opposite winter branch, Norway Maple, Acer platanoides
Pine
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9. 2-needle pine: Shore Pine, Pinus contorta var. contorta
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10. 3-needle pine: Ponderosa Pine, Pinus ponderosa
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11. 5-needle pine: Western White Pine, Pinus monticola
Fir
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12. Example: Grand Fir, Abies grandis
Spruce
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13. Example: Colorado Blue Spruce, Picea pungens var. glauca
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14. Example: needleless spruce branch: Blue Spruce without needles, just “pegs”
Branchlets of four native “cedars”, together to emphasize their differences:
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16. Western Red Cedar, Thuja plicata
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17. Incense Cedar, Calocedrus decurrens
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18. Port Orford Cedar, Chamaecyparis lawsoniana
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19. Alaska Cedar,Chamaecyparis nootkatensis,