Deciduous  Trees   -  Traditional                     

Alder         Arbutus        Beech         Birch          Black Cottonwood and Eastern Cottonwood         

Elder            Elm            Maple Tree (all Maples)           Mountain Ash          Oak          

Poplars - Trembling Aspen and Balsam Poplar            Walnut             Willows

 

Red Alder  - growing on the Pacific West Coast near the beach on Vancouver Island. Red Alder is a tree on the Coast Forest Region of B.C. The buds and twigs are reddish, but the trunk and bark are gray, and actually more whitish in these pictures.

 

 

 

Red Alder trunk and bark - a grove of red alders are seen in the background.

 

Red Alder leaves 

 

 

Sitka Alder bushes on the mountain                                                             

  

 

 

 

Arbutus trees on a cliff close to the sea shore near Horseshoe Bay, BC

  

 

 

Arbutus leaves                                                      

  

 

Arbutus  Berries                   

   

 

Arbutus Trunk

 

 

 

 

Beech Tree

 

Beech leaves in autumn

 

 

Trembling Aspen Forest 

  

Images - The pleasant, peaceful sound of the fluttering aspen leaves in the wind. The bright aspen forest floor.   Image by Ray W

 

 

Clump of Trembling Aspens in summer          

                          

 

Trembling Aspen Leaves

 

Aspen Trunk

     

 

 

Moss growing at the base of a poplar tree

 

Trembling aspen - also known as  " white poplar "

 

Grove of white poplars - these particularly are very whitish. 

 

When conditions are right Trembling Aspens can grow to be very large and tall as in the case with this dense stand of white poplars in Banff National Park, Alberta.

 

 

Trembling aspens (in foreground) growing beside the Mackenzie River, NWT

 

White poplar forest on the shore of Hutch Lake, Northern Alberta - about 20 miles North of High Level. 

 

 

Birch Trunk

 

Weeping Birch                                                                    

   

   

 

 

 

Paper Birch in Autumn                         

     

 

Paper Birch in early winter - Elk Island Park, Alberta

 

Paper Birch Leaves and Trunk in Fall

 

Birch leaves in summer

 

Paper Birch Trunk

 

  

 

 

Young birch tree growing in very rocky land, near shore of Prelude Lake, North West Territories

 

 

 

Water Birch

Water Birch Trunk and Bark

 

 

Black Cottonwood

   

 

 

Black Cottonwood leaves in autumn.

 

Black Cottonwood fall colours - Dinosaur Provincial Park , Alberta

 

 

Black Cottonwood forest in the Red Deer River Valley. The preferred natural habitat for black cottonwood trees in southern Alberta is along river valleys close to water. 

 

 

 

Eastern Cottonwood  at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta

 

Trunk of Eastern Cottonwood

 

Leaf of Eastern Cottonwood

 

Leaves of Eastern Cottonwood

 

 

 

Golden Elder - Garden Variety 

 

Elder berries (Creston, BC)

 

 

White Elm                                                                       

  

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White Elm Trunk

 

Balsam Poplar (Black Poplar)                                   

 

 

 

Trunk of mature Balsam (Black) Poplar          

    

   

 

Black Poplar in Bloom

 

 

Russian Poplar (not native to Canada)

 

 

Big Leaf Maple - growing in Stanley Park, Vancouver BC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ferns growing on Big Leaf Maple near Lynn Creek, North Vancouver

 

 

Douglas Maple

   

 

Douglas Maple growing on the slope of Mt. Revelstoke, BC

 

 

Manitoba Maple

 

Manitoba Maple Trunk

 

Manitoba Maple in bloom

 

 

Maple Seeds

 

 

 

Manitoba maple leaves

 

 

Maple Tree in Nelson, B.C.

   

 

 

Red Maple in autumn at Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, BC

 

Red Maple Leaves

 

Red Maple leaf

 

Red Maple in Stanley Park, Vancouver BC

 

Vine Maple in Stanley Park, Vancouver                 

   

 

Trunk of Vine Maple

 

Vine Maple leaf and seeds in autumn

 

 

 

Mountain Ash (domestic)                          

   

 

Mountain Ash Trunk                                

 

 

Mountain Ash in Fall         

 

Ripe Mountain Ash berries

 

Mountain Ash - native tree on the mountain near Lake Louise, Alberta

 

 

White Oak                                                      

  

White Oak Tree Trunk

 

 

 

Bur Oak                                                           

  

Bur Oak Leaves           

    

Trunk and Bark

     

 

Oak tree in bloom

 

Oak tree in the fall

 

 

Walnut growing in Nelson, British Columbia                                                                     

     

Walnut Trunk                                  

     

Walnut Leaf

 

The actual walnut is inside.

   

 

Walnuts

 

 

Willow trees along bank of Bow River - Calgary, Alberta                                              

There are over 50 different species of Willows in Canada. So it is really tough identifying a particular willow tree accurately. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leaves of Willow - species unknown

 

Willow Blossom

 

 

Leaves of Pussy Willow

Pussy Willow - McLennan, Alberta

 

Wolf Willow                                                               

    

 

 

Wolf Willow Blossoms     

 

Wolf Willow berries

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