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RECOMMENDED LANDSCAPE PLANT MATERIALS
Large Trees

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Large Trees (50 Feet and Taller) - Deciduous
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cypress Bald Cypress - Native
  • Sun
  • Adapted to much of state
  • Rust red fall color
  • Needs lots of room
  • Upright tree, 60 to 70 feet tall, 30 to 45 feet wide
  • May show iron deficiency in extremely alkaline soils
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    cypress
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    bur oak Bur Oak - Native
  • 50 to 60 feet tall
  • Adapted over entire state
  • Should be more widely used
  • Increasingly available in Texas nursery trades
  • Native over much of eastern half of Texas
  • Acorns the size of walnuts or larger
  • Deciduous with yellow to brown fall color
  • Needs lots of room
  • Can grow fast in good soils
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    bur oakd
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    chinguapin oak Chinguapin Oak - Native
  • 40 to 50 feet tall
  • Foliage glossy dark green and silvery white beneath
  • Will be more widely used in future
  • Native in band of Central Texas, but adapted to most of state
  • Fall color yellow to orange
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    chinguapin oak
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    chinguapin oak Pecan - Native
  • Best in deep soils
  • Caddo, Pawnee, Sioux, Kanza are among the best
  • Natives often make good landscape trees
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    shumard oak Shumard Oak - Native
  • 50 to 60 feet tall
  • One of the finest shade trees for Texas
  • Deciduous with brilliant red and sometimes yellow fall colors
  • Adapted in most of the sate
  • Summertime foliage dark green on stately formal trees
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    oak
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    caddo maple Caddo Maple - Native
  • Gold to orange red fall color
  • Flying winged seeds
  • Will grow in limestone and blackland soils and as far west as Fort Worth without supplemental watering
  • Large Trees (50 Feet and Taller) - Evergreen
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    cedar Deodar Cedar
  • Very large pyramidal tree
  • Attractive blue-green foliage
  • 40 to 50 feet tall
  • Some bagworm, borer and cotton root rot problems
  • Has shown extensive freeze damage, even death in extreme winters from Tyler and Waco northward
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    southern oak Southern Live Oak
  • Beautiful, stately, spreading tree
  • For western areas, choose trees propagated from the live oaks which grow in the western Cross timbers area
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