TDFPlants


 * **__Eglantine__**- A very hardy shrub that can get quite big, possibly up to 10 feet tall. It blooms just once, with single pink flowers about 1.5 to 2 inches across. The foliage emits a nice apple fragrance, especially when rubbed. In the fall, Eglantine puts on a nice show with lots of bright red leaves.
 * **__Birch Trees__**- Can grow to a height of 40 feet. The bark of the tree peels as it ages. Birches are typical "pioneer" trees, able to invade and colonise bare land successfully. Birch trees are wind pollinated.
 * **__Red Maple Tree__**- This tree grows everywhere from the organic muck of shallow fresh water swamps to the rocky quartzite slopes of the Appalachian Mountains. This tree's small, numerous red flowers bloom in the early spring, before the leaves come out. The leaves are 3 or 5 lobed, red stemmed, and vary from 2 to 5 inches long.
 * **__Witch Hazel__**- Witch hazel is a tree with branches that are very flexible -- so springy, in fact, that American Indians used them to make bows! Despite its name, witch hazel has nothing to do with witchcraft. In medieval English, witch was spelled wych, and it meant flexible.
 * **__Beech Tree__**- The beech casts some of the darkest shade in the forest, and very few other trees grow under it. The beech tree is most easily identified by its bark. The bark is light colored, and very smooth, as this tree never develops furrows. The leaves are fairly small, toothed, with veins terminating in teeth. There are no lobes on the leaves, which turn yellow in the fall. The nuts, which fall before the leaves turn, are small, triangular shaped, and edible.
 * __**Sugar Maple Tree**__- In the fall, the sugar maple becomes the most colorful tree in the forest. The fall foliage is usually orange or red, and the whole tree generally turns at once. This is the tree whose sap is used to produce maple syrup.

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