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Answer:
Would you like to learn how to identify trees in your local community? The best place to get started is by looking at the tree's foliage.
Trees With Leaves
This is a big category, so let's break it down into two main groups:
Trees with needles or scale-like leaves. Cedar and juniper trees have scale-like leaves that look more like flattened out fans than either leaves or needles. Cedar trees have green scales and small cones. Junipers, on the other hand, have bluish, berry-like cones.
Trees with leaves. To make things simpler, we are once again going to break this category into two groups.
Trees With Simple Leaves
These trees have one leaf attached to each stem. Leaves with a consistent leaf edge are called unlobed leaves while trees with leaves that form shapes along their margins are called lobed leaves. If your tree has unlobed leaves, you must next determine whether or not it has teeth - or serrations around its margin.
Unlobed and smooth (no teeth). Magnolia have large, glossy green leaves with rust-colored hairs on the under-surface. Live oaks have long slender deciduous leaves and small acorns. Dogwoods have wavy edges and 6-7 veins that pattern either side of the leaf's midrib. If your tree has leaves that are oblong or elliptical and appear crowded on short branches, it might be a Blackgum. And if its leaves are thick and pointed, it might be a Persimmon