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27 Cards in this Set
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Butternut
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- Biggest leaf in the state
- Wood is soft and has a satiny finish - Sap makes a high quality syrup - Native Americans used crushed fruits to poison fish |
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Black Walnut
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- Wood is hard, rich, and dark brown
- Most valuable of Native Trees - Worth up to $20,000 and have been stolen from yards - Used for fine furniture, caskets, etc - Inner bark can be used as a laxative - Nuts have been used for flavoring in ice cream |
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Bitternut Hickory
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-Wood is shock resistant, used for tool handles as well as wagon parts
- Wood is burned to give ham flavoring - Fruits are inedible - Oil extract from fruits was used as a remedy for rheumatism and for oil lamps |
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Shagbark Hickory
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- Can grow up to 100 feet and can be as old as 200 years
- Wood is light brown, hard, strong, flexible and heavy - Great firewood - burns hot for a long time |
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Black Cherry
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- Used for cabinets, showcases, counters, bars, and caskets
- "Cherry Bounce" - Daniel Boone made himself several caskets |
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Wild Plum
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- Found around fence posts, forest edges, and pastures
- Over 300 different varieties - Spur shoots used for mending clothes - Fruits made into preserves and jellies |
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Mulberry
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- Berries are edible
- Two species (one is native, one is from Asia) - Introduced species was grown to feed silk worms |
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Basswood
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- Wood is white, soft, light and weak
- Iroquois masks were carved in living tree and hollowed out later - Climax community tree - Bark was used to bind warrior's wounds |
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Sugar Maple
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- Used for fiddlebacks
- Best fall colors of any native tree - Main source of sap for syrup - Canada's national tree |
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Silver Maple
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- Common on riverbanks and bottomlands (floodplains and swamps)
- Splits easily - One of the fastest growing maples |
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Box Elder
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- Maple family's "ugly duckling"
- Short-lived tree - Prized tree out west (because it thrives) - Attracts bugs |
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Green Ash
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- Planted in yards as ornamental
- Handles flooding - Used for oars and paddles as well as hockey sticks |
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Ironwood
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- Densest of all Minnesota trees
- Also called hop-hornbeam - Bark is scratched - Leaves feel like money |
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Bur Oak
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- Fire resistant bark
- Transplants easily - Halloween Tree |
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White Oak
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- Can live over 500 years
- Used in colonial ship building - Used for holding whiskey, rum, and wine - Good coffee substitute |
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Red Oak
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- Grows in rocky, clay or sandy soils
- Makes cheap furniture - Hold leaves throughout winter - Fruits serve as a cleansing laxative |
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Pin Oak
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- Fruits (acorns) are eaten by wildlife
- Straight-growing tree |
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American Elm
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- New York tree is reported to be over 600 years old
- Can have over 1 million leaves - Form "tree tunnels" - Hard to split and full of water - Indians used bark for ropes and canoes - Council tree - Susceptible to a certain fungus |
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Slippery Elm
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- Inner bark makes a viscous slime that is useful in dressing wounds
- Relieves inflammation - Used for cough medicine |
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Hackberry
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- Street tree (though not common or abundant)
- Almost always afflicted with mite galls - Used for barrel hoops, fence posts, athletic goods and cheap furniture |
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Cottonwood
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- Prefers bottomlands and sandbars (wet areas)
- Warps badly while drying, and is difficult to split - Used for boxes and paper pulp - Fastest growing (10 feet a year) - Sucker roots |
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Willow
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- Over 20 species (many hybridize)
- Loves growing in wet areas - Used for wickerware and baskets - Many mammals feed on twigs and buds in winter (especially MOOSE!) - Extract is a pain reliever - Can grow a new tree by sticking branch into wet ground |
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Dogwood
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- Common shrub and like wet areas
- At least 6 species in Minnesota - Used for Indian Tobacco - Wood is often made into daggers |
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Gooseberry
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- Fruits are eaten by nearly all mammal species while twigs and buds are eaten by MOOSE!, deer and porcupines
- Plants transmit blister rust (deadly fungus) to white pines |
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American Hazelnut
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- Shrub produces edible fruits (filberts) which are used in bar drinks, and sometimes used as an additive in butter
- Dense growth makes a great hiding spot for nesting sites |
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Prickly Ash
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- Tall shrub/small tree (20 feet)
- Member of citrus family - Crushed leaves smell like citrus - Causes numbness of the mouth |
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Eastern Red Cedar
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- Grows well in dusty areas
- Wood is reddish color - Used to make pencils - Very fragrant - |
