Appendix A-1. LARGE TREES FOR HOUSTON
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Botanical Name Common Name* Comments Acer rubrum var drummondii D Drummon Red Maple Wet sites Acer rubrum var tridens D Trident Red Maple Wet sites Acer barbatum D Southern or Texas Sugar Maple Betula nigra D River Birch Wet sites Bumelia lanuginosa D Chittamwood, Gum bumelia or Wooly Bucket Drought-tolerant/Attracts birds Carya cordiformis D Bitternut Hickory Carya illinoenses D Pecan Nut Carya texana D Black Hickory Drought-tolerant Carya tomentosa D Mockery Nut Hickory Fruit Diospyros virginiana D Persimmon, eastern Fruit Ehretia anacua D Anacua Flowering/Fruit/Drought-tolerant Fraxinus americana D White Ash Fraxinus Pennsylvanica D Green Ash Ginkgo biloba D Ginkgo Male only Ilex opaca (and cultivars) E American Holly Female/Fruit Juglans nigra D Black Walnut Liquidambar styraciflua D Sweetgum Fall color Liriodendron tulipifera D Tulip tree or Yellow Poplar Flowering/Wet sites Magnolia grandiflora E Southern Magnolia Flowering Magnolia virginiana E Sweet Bay Magnolia Flowering/Wet sites Metasequoia glyptostroboides D Dawn Redwood Nyssa aquatica D Water tupelo Wet sites Nyssa sylvatica var biflora D Swamp tupelo or Black Gum Wet sites Nyssa sylvatica var sylvatica D Black Gum Fruit/Fall color Pinus palustris E Longleaf Pine Pinus taeda E Loblolly Pine Pinus glabra E Spruce Pine Plantanus mexicana D Mexican Sycamore Wet sites Plantanus occientalis D Sycamore Prunus serotina D Black Cherry Flowering/Fruit Quercus acutissima D Sawtooth Oak Quercus alba D Oaks, white Fall color Quercus canbii D Canby Oak Quercus falcata D Southern Red Oak Quercus laurifolia D Laurel Oak Quercus lyrata D Overcup Oak Wet sites Quercus macrocarpa D Bur Oak Wet sites/Drought-tolerant Quercus michauxii D Swamp Chestnut Oak Fall color Quercus muehlenbergii D Chinkapin Oak Drought-tolerant Quercus nutallii D Nutall Oak Fall color/Wet sites Quercus palustris D Pin Oak Fall color Quercus phellos D Willow Oak Quercus polymorpha D Monterrey Oak Quercus rizophyllia D Loquat Leaf Oak Quercus shumardii D Shumard Oak Fall color Quercus stellata D Post Oak Quercus virginiana D Live Oak Sassafras albidum D Sassafras Fall color/Attracts birds Taxodium distichum var distichum D Bald Cypress Wet sites/Drought-tolerant Taxodium distichum var nutans D Pond Cypress Taxodium mucronatum D Montezuma Bald Cypress Tilia caroliniana D Carolina Basswood Ulmus americana D American Elm Ulmus alata D Winged Elm Ulmus crassifolia D Cedar Elm Drought-tolerant Ulmus parvifolia var drakii D Drake Elm Zelkova serrata D Japanese Zelkova []