Tree Vocabulary

A type of fruit typically with multiple seeds throughout the flesh. Tomatoes, bananas, grapes, and pumpkins are examples.

• Berry

• Catkin

• Deciduous

• Drupe

• Evergreen

A string of tiny flowers, usually yellow or green. This type of flower usually spreads its pollen in the wind.

• Berry

• Catkin

• Deciduous

• Drupe

• Evergreen

Trees that drop their leaves in autumn.

• Berry

• Catkin

• Deciduous

• Drupe

• Evergreen

A type of fruit having a single seed enclosed in a hard shell enclosed in a soft juicy flesh. Cherries and peaches are examples.

• Berry

• Catkin

• Deciduous

• Drupe

• Evergreen

Trees that keep their green leaves throughout the year.

• Berry

• Catkin

• Deciduous

• Drupe

• Evergreen

A pore in the bark of young trunks and branches through which air passes into the branch. They can look like tiny polka dots or tiny stripes on bark.

• Lenticel

• Margin

• Pollination

• Samara

The leaf edges. They can be smooth, wavy, lobed, toothed, or bristle-tipped.

• Lenticel

• Margin

• Pollination

• Samara

Moving pollen from one flower to another in order to make seeds. Plants can be pollinated by insects, birds, mammals, wind, or water.

• Lenticel

• Margin

• Pollination

• Samara

A type of fruit that has a papery tissue surrounding the seed to help disperse the seed in the wind.

• Lenticel

• Margin

• Pollination

• Samara

Spring and Summer Characteristics include

• Buds, Leaves, and Flowers

• Seeds and Fruits

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