Horticulture 1 – Plant ID Prep for Vocats Exam

1) An interior plant that is about 4 feet tall and looks similar to a little pine or cedar tree with dark green leaves. A) Eastern White Pine B) Evergreen Euonymus C) Norfolk Island Pine D) Weeping Fig

2) A plant with large variegated green and cream colored large leaves that are on a thick trunk is a Norfolk Island Pine.   Japanese Barberry.   Winged Euonymus.   Dumbcane.

3) An indoor flowering plant grown for hanging baskets and potted plants and has red, white or pink flowers and green leaves that usually have long petioles and is popular for Mother’s day is a: A) Boston Fern B) Catawba Rhododendron C) Geranium D) Japanese Flowering Cherry

4) Common indoor Christmas plants with bracts or leaves that are red, pink or white on different plants. What is the name of these plants? A) Chrysanthemum. B) Geranium. C) Poinsettia. D) Spider Plant.

5) What is the name of an EVERGREEN ground cover with SILVERY-BLUE scale-type leaves? A) Blue Rug Juniper. B) Lirope. C) Prayer Plant. D) Hosta.

6)A medium evergreen shrubs with reddish-green 1" long leaves and small clusters of BUGLE-SHAPED WHITE flowers. A) Glossy Abelia B) Ivy Leaf Geranium C) Ajuga D) Japanese Aucuba

7) A medium sized deciduous shrub that have 1” long leaves, small spines at the leaf nodes and ¼” to ½” red berries. What am I? Pin Oak.   Japanese Barberry Helleri Holly.   Prayer Plant.

8) A dwarf evergreen shrub about two feet high and two feet wide with dark green mature leaves about ½” to 1” long. New spring growth is light green and the stems are a gray color. A)Bradford Pear B)Dwarf Yaupon C)Japanese Maple D)Shore Juniper

9) A medium size deciduous shrub with dark green leaves 1" to 2" long that turn a glowing brilliant red in the fall. A) Helleri Holly. B) Spider Plant. C) Blue Harbor Juniper. D) Winged Euonymus

10) A large evergreen shrub with leaves that are 1 ½” to 3” long and about half as wide as their length. Some have all green leaves, some had gold around the leaves, and some had white around the leaf edges. What am I? A)Eastern Red Bud B)Evergreen Euonymus C)Lirope D)Mondo Grass

11 Small DECIDUOUS tree, deep pink double flowers that are 2” and used as an accent plant in the landscape. Helleri Holly Japanese Flowering Cherry Norfolk Island Pine Weeping Fig

12 Large EVERGREEEN SHRUB with dark green leaves that are 3” long and 1/5” wide with raised veins. It has ¼” dark purple berries with a hard seed inside. Border Forsythia Day lily Japanese Privet Sprengeri Fern

13) A large deciduous shrub with many bright YELLOW flowers in very early spring. Shasta Daisy.   Mungo Pine.   Parlor Ivy.   Border Forsythia. 14

14) A small deciduous tree with HEART-SHAPED leaves, long brown BEAN-type pods and PURPLE flower. Eastern Red Bud.   Ajuga.   Eastern White Pine.   English Ivy. Heart shaped leaves 15

15) A large evergreen shrub with many LARGE FLWOERS and dark green leaves with smooth margins. The leaves are about 5" long and 2" wide Grows beside the roads in the mountains of North Carolina. River Birch.   Bar Harbor Juniper.   Catawba Rhododendron.   Japanese Privet. 16

A large evergreen shrub with leaves about 2" to 3" long with serrated margins near the leaf tips. It has clusters of small waxy-gray berries. This shrub is a: 16 Wax Myrtle.   Willow Oak.   Bar Harbor Juniper.   Glossy Abelia.

17) SMALL DECIDUOUS TREE with white, pink, red and purple flowers. Trees have SMOOTH bark and flower in late summer. Crape Myrtle Evergreen Euonymus Prayer Plant Red Maple

18 I’m a small deciduous flowering tree that is usually crooked and has white flowers that are really bracts with a brownish color on the tip of each bract is a: Pin Oak.   Leyland Cypress.   Catawba Rhododendron.   Flowering Dogwood.

19 A medium-size deciduous tree that has four trunks or stems with THIN SHEETS of light color bark PEELING off each trunk. What is the common name of this tree? Sweetgum.   Japanese Barberry.   Red Maple.   River Birch. 20

20) A medium-size deciduous tree with flowers that also has 1" to 2" diameter fruit and green, red or purple leaves in summer. Pin Oak.   Willow Oak.   Mungo Pine.   Flowering Crabapple. 21

21) A deciduous tree that has WHITE flowers in the spring and REDDISH PURPLE in the autumn. They grow in a SYMMETRICAL shape with little or no pruning. White- Spring Reddish Purple -Fall Dwarf Burford Holly.   Border Forsythia.   Bradford Pear.   Japanese Aucuba. 22

22) A large evergreen tree with clusters of needle-like leaves about four inches long. There were five leaves or needles per cluster. He saw some curving BROWN CONES under the tree. What is the common name of this tree? Cones, Needles Eastern White Pine.   Azalea.   Red Maple.   Eastern Red Bud. 5 needles per cluster 23

23) A large deciduous tree about 50 feet tall with leaves that have 5-7 lobes and 3-4 BRISTLE TIPS on each lobe that turn brilliant red in the autumn. It also has ACORNS. Bristle tips Pin Oak. Red Maple. Weeping Fig. River Birch.    24

24) A large evergreen tree about 50 feet tall with scale-type leaves and short 1/2" cones is a specimen plant at church. What is the common name for this tree that looks similar to a cedar tree? Winged Euonymus.   Leyland Cypress.   Pin Oak.   Eastern Red Bud.

25 I am a LARGE, old TREE with leaves that are large and shiny. I have flowers that are white & 6" to 9", and it is messy under the tree because of the cone-like pods and bright red seeds. What tree am I? Japanese Privet.   Wax Myrtle.   Southern Magnolia.   Red Maple

26) Large DECIDUOUS TREE with STAR-SHAPED leaves that turn yellow, orange, red and purple. Has fruit that is covered in burrs and looks like a prickly ball. Crape Myrtle Norfolk Island Pine Sweetgum Winged Euonymus

27) Large DECIDUOUS TREE that’s 60 ft tall 27) Large DECIDUOUS TREE that’s 60 ft tall. It has NARROW leaves & small ACORNS. Eastern White Pine Leyland Cypress Red Maple Willow Oak

28 I’m a plant with 18" long and 3/4" wide leaves with a light greenish line down the midrib of the leaves and have baby plants growing at the tips of my shoots?  English Ivy.   Spider Plant.   Wax Begonia.   Weeping Fig.

29) A deciduous ground cover that has 3" wide and 7" long leaves that grow in a whorled pattern & can be solid green or green with white. Hosta.   Impatiens.   Wax Begonia.   Azalea.

A) Chrysanthemum. B) Geranium. C) Poinsettia. D) Spider Plant. 30) A florist plant that is used at Christmas with bracts or leaves that are red, pink or white on different plants. What is the name of these plants? A) Chrysanthemum. B) Geranium. C) Poinsettia. D) Spider Plant. 31

31) A large evergreen shrub with many LARGE FLOWERS and dark green leaves with smooth margins. The leaves are about 5" long and 2" wide Grows beside the roads in the mountains of North Carolina. Catawba Rhododendron. Leyland Cypress Mugo Pine Winged Euonymus 32

22) Small DECIDUOUS flowering tree with crooked branches and white flowers called bracts. The bracts have brownish color on the tips. Catawba Hydrid Flowering Dogwood Leyland Cypress Pin Oak 33

33) A medium-size deciduous tree that has unusually THIN brown bark PEELING off several of its stems or trunks. What is the common name of this tree? Sweetgum.  River Birch Japanese Barberry.  Red Maple.   . 34

34) A large evergreen tree with clusters of needle-like leaves about four inches long. There were five leaves or needles per cluster. He saw some curving BROWN CONES under the tree. What is the common name of this tree? Cones, Needles Azalea. Eastern Red Bud. Eastern White Pine. Red Maple. 5 needles per cluster 35

35 I am a LARGE, old TREE with leaves that are large and shiny. I have flowers that are white & 6" to 9", and it is messy under the tree because of the cone-like pods and bright red seeds. What tree am I? Japanese Privet.   Wax Myrtle.   Southern Magnolia.   Red Maple 36

36) A tall DECIDUOUS TREE with dark green STAR-SHAPED leaves & many prickly balls or burrs on the ground. Eastern Red Bud Eastern White Pine River Birch Sweetgum

37) A DECIDUOUS TREE with acrorns and narrow green leaves that grows to about 60 ft. Flowering Dogwood Norfolk Island Pine Sweetgum Willow Oak

38) I live in a hanging basket & have long green leaf-like growth with a long vein down the middle. I have many leaf-like structures called fronds, but no flowers or seeds Boston Fern. Glossy Abelia. Shasta Daisy.    Wax Begonia.  

39 I’m a plant with 18" long and 3/4" wide leaves with a light greenish line down the midrib of the leaves and have baby plants growing at the tips of my shoots?  Shore Juniper   Spider Plant.   Swedish Ivy  Weeping Fig. 40

40) I am a large deciduous tree with red flowers in spring. My leaves are dark green with a gray color underneath. Leaves have 3-5 lobes & my bark is light gray. My common name is: Crape Myrtle.   Eastern White Pine. Flowering Dogwood.  Red Maple.

In a scientific name, cv. means: 41) Center vein.  Color variegated.   Century five.   Cultivar.

Dwarf Yaupon, Helleri Holly and Dwarf Burford Holly are all in the holly family or the genus called: 42) Ficus.  Prunus.   Juniperus.   Ilex.

43) The Scientific name of a plant is Ficus benjamina, what is the common name? A) English Ivy b) Impatiens c) Peace lily d) Weeping Fig

44) The scientific name for an azalea is: a) Cornus Florida b) Ficus benjamina c) Rhododendron kiusianum d) Saintpaulia ionatha

45) A tree with the word “Pinus” in the scientific name is in what family? Maple Pine Oak Sweetgum

What is the scientific name for a Flowering Dogwood? 46) Acer rubrum.   Liriope muscari.   Cornus florida.   Targetes erecta 47

47) In the scientific name Ficus elastic Decora which is the Decora Rubber Plant, the word ‘Decora’ is the: Genus Kingdom Species Variety

What language is used by the words in scientific classification: 48) French.   Russian.   Spanish.   Latin.

49) I am a tree with the scientific name Acer palmatum. What is my common name? Flowering Dogwood.   Japanese Maple.   Pin Oak.   Eastern White Pine

The first word in the scientific name of a plant is the 50) Species.   Variety.   Cultivar.  Genus.

The scientific name Ilex vomitoria 'Nana' is the common Dwarf Yaupon The scientific name Ilex vomitoria 'Nana' is the common Dwarf Yaupon. Which word is the plant species? 'Nana'.   Vomitoria.  Dwarf.   Ilex.