Woody Plant Identification

Anacua

• Leaves big and green • Feels like sandpaper.

Ash

• Smooth leaves • white stem• long tear drop seeds in bunches.

Brasil

• black berries• long thorns • stemmed leaflets grow out of thorns.

Catclaw acacia

• Striped bark • catclaw shaped thorns

Cedar elm

• serrated leaf margins • no thorns.

Cenizo

• silverish-white leaves• purple flowers • does not have thorns.

Ebony

• Tiny spike like thorns ,side-by-side • opposite leaf pattern. • large seed pods

Granjeno

• Thorns V-shaped pattern that eventually turn into stems.

• zig-zag shaped patterned stems• little orange berries.

Guajillo

• Large fern like leaves• small black thorns.

Guayacan

• no thorns. • leaves resemble the shape of tiny moose

antlers.

Hackberry

• leaves are rough in texture • tiny little purple berries • No thorns.

Huisache

• small V-shaped white thorns• small leaves• reddish color bark.

Lime Prickly Ash

• small thorns, double catclaw @ base • veins going through the stem and leaves.

Live Oak

• smooth leaves• small acorn seeds

Mesquite

• leaves have wishbone shaped pattern • mid sized thorns• Green or yellow pod

Palo Verde

• A tree with green bark and has no thorns.

Retama

• green bark• yellowish red thorns• Long leaves with leaflets

Salt Cedar

• Tall tree with aqua color to grayish color shoe string type leaves.

Tasajillo

• Cactus like tree with thorns on the stems

Texas Persimmon

• leaves that are cupped on the leaf margins.

Wild Olive

• white flowers • grayish rough bark • large velvety leaves• Olive-like fruit