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@TreeIDer

Beginner tree identifier hopefully helping tree enthusiasts. Help me ID trees!

Picked up this book. It comes with a small pocket guide. Going hiking soon.

TreeIDer's tweet image. Picked up this book. It comes with a small pocket guide. Going hiking soon.

@Love_forests: @TreeIDer if you like identifying trees, have you seen this tree ID app? forestry.gov.uk/mobileapp” Really great app. Thanks!


Really cool underwater trees! Gotta try this someday. youtube.com/watch?v=Lsa8Vh…


Gambel's (scrub) oak can be a tree or shrub-like. Distinctive leaves and acorns. Very common in Utah. Good for fires.

TreeIDer's tweet image. Gambel's (scrub) oak can be a tree or shrub-like. Distinctive leaves and acorns. Very common in Utah. Good for fires.

It's getting harder to tree ID with this snow but I'm still at it!

TreeIDer's tweet image. It's getting harder to tree ID with this snow but I'm still at it!

The Audubon tree app is a great way to start learning trees @audubonsociety


There are simple leaves (attach directly to the branch) or compound leaves (subdivided blades attached to a main vein)-great clue for IDing


(2/2) cottonwoods have distinctive leaves twigs and bark. They can be deceptive in the fall or winter with no cotton.

TreeIDer's tweet image. (2/2) cottonwoods have distinctive leaves twigs and bark. They can be deceptive in the fall or winter with no cotton.

(1/2) Cottonwood: common tree near water. Catkins and cottony seeds in spring. Great for friction fires.

TreeIDer's tweet image. (1/2) Cottonwood: common tree near water. Catkins and cottony seeds in spring. Great for friction fires.

Leaves have pinnate or palmate veins. Palmate veins branch from one point at the stem. Pinnate veins branch from a vein up the middle.


Fir trees have flat needles. Spruce have round or square and can be rolled in your fingers.


Conifers are most likely 1 of 4 types:pines spruces firs or cedars. Pines have needles in bundles of 2,3, or 5. There's 150 species of pine.


Douglas Fir: Distinctive for its flat non-bundled needles and flaky cones with 3-pointed bracts. Very common.

TreeIDer's tweet image. Douglas Fir: Distinctive for its flat non-bundled needles and flaky cones with 3-pointed bracts. Very common.

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