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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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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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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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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 - 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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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
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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 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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[Vines],
[Dwarf Shrubs],
[Small Shrubs],
[Medium Shrubs],
[Large Shrubs],
[Small Trees],
[Medium Trees],
[Large Trees]
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