Pennsylvania Hardwood Trees
The next several slides will familiarize you with the terminology needed to use the summer key to pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania hardwood trees. It s a great time of the year in pennsylvania to get out and walk around in the woods. Our mill is capable of cutting logs up to 72 inches in diameter. Trees can be identified using many factors including leaves bark twigs buds flowers and fruits. It also occurs farther south on north facing slopes and cool moist ravines.
This presentation will focus on using leaves for tree identification. Hardwood trees lose their leaves each autumn. 20 40 10 20 beautiful autumnal color tolerates poor soils tends to be short lives. About 90 percent of all the trees in pennsylvania s forests are hardwoods.
Pennsylvania hardwoods good example of the northern red oak. This forest type is characterized by a mixture of hardwoods and conifers and usually contains. Pennsylvania s forests grow some of the most valuable hardwoods in the world. 20 30 10 20 beautiful flowers and berries only alternate.
These giant evergreens are actually the pennsylvania state tree. Identify trees using the summer key to pennsylvania trees. Tall straight dark bark with thin rounded ridges. Ahc crystal spring is a division of atlanta hardwood corporation located in the heart of the allegheny mountains of pennsylvania.
Most common hardwoods unlike the conifers or softwood firs spruce and pines hardwood trees have evolved into a broad array of common species. The wood of these trees is generally hard and dense but there are exceptions. They can grow tall and strong making it a favored wood for construction. The wood from hardwood trees tends to be harder because the trees grow at a slower rate giving the wood its greater density.
40 50 40 50 early successional tree can grow in poor soil pleasant mint flavor. Our fourth concentration drying yard specializes in red oak white oak and poplar along with hard and soft maple and cherry.