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34. Hedge Maple
September 2014
September 2014
The Hedge Maple Tree is tall and skinny.

September 2014
The leaves are small and they are turning yellow.

September 2014
The bark of the tree is scratchy, rough, flaky and mossy.

November 2014
November 2014
They are not very many leaves and
some of the branches were broken.

November 2014
The leaves have changed colors to yellowish orange.

November 2014
The bark has a lot of moss on it.

April 2015
April 2015

April 2015
The Hedge Maple Tree has gotten taller and
it has new branches.

April 2015
The leaves are lighter and brighter in color.

April 2015

April 2015
The bark has moss growing on it and it is really rough.

April 2015
The tree now has light green and dark green buds.


35. River Birch
September 2014
September 2014
September 2014
The River Birch Tree is very big.

September 2014
It has a lot of compound leaves.

September 2014
The bark is smooth, slick, flaky, slippery and paper-like.

November 2014
November 2014
The River Birch Tree seems bigger and
it has lost all of its leaves. There are no more spider webs.

November 2014
November 2014
The leaves are now orangish.

November 2014
There is not as much paper bark.

April 2015
April 2015

April 2015
The River Birch Tree has more branches.

April 2015
The leaves are very small.

April 2015
The bark is peeling more.

36. Caucasian Wingnut
September 2014
September 2014

September 2014
The Caucasian Wingnut Tree is medium size and it has lot of branches.

September 2014
The leaves are compound leaves.

 
September 2014
The bark is bumpy, scratchy and sharp and it has moss on it.

November 2014
November 2014
The tree has less leaves and they are brown.

November 2014
The leaves are a little smaller and they felt drier.

November 2014
There is a hole in the bark and
it is rough, bumpy, scratchy and shaggy.

April 2015
April 2015

April 2015
The Caucasian Wingnut has no leaves.

April 2015
There is more moss growing on the trunk.

April 2015
There are new leaves growing on the tree.

April 2015

April 2015