Woody Plant Identification

Anacua Leaves are big and green and feels very much like sandpaper.

Ash Smooth leaves with a white stem that has long tear drop seeds in bunches.

Brasil Tree with black berries and long thorns that have stemmed leaflets that grow out of them.

Catclaw acacia Tree with strips and catclaw shaped thorns going down the bark.

Cedar elm Tree that has serrated leaf margins with no thorns.

Cenizo Tree with silverish-white leaves with purple flowers and does not have thorns.

Ebony Tiny spike like thorns that are side-by-side that have a opposite leaf pattern. This tree also has large seed pods that form on the branches.

Granjeno Thorns are in a V-shaped pattern which will eventually turn into stems. The stems are in a zig-zag shaped pattern with little orange berries.

Guajillo Looks very similar to huisache but the leaves are much larger and has small black thorns.

Guayacan Tree like branches with no thorns. The leaves resemble the shape of tiny moose antlers.

Hackberry Tree leaves that are rough in texture and have tiny little purple berrys and does not have thorns.

Huisache Tree that has small V-shaped white thorns with small leaves and has a reddish color bark.

Lime Prickly Ash Tree with small thorns that have veins going through the stem and leaves.

Live Oak Tree with smooth leaves that has small acorn seeds growing from the stems.

Mesquite The tree’s leaves makes a wishbone shaped pattern and the branches have mid sized thorns growing from them.

Palo Verde A tree with green bark and has no thorns.

Retama Has green bark with yellowish thorns on the stems.

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 Tree with leaves that are cupped on the leaf margins.

Wild Olive Tree with white flowers with a grayish rough bark and large velvety leaves.