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T R E E S
Common Name
Scientific Name
Acacia, sweet Acacia farnesiana 8b–11 – 15x20
Allspice Pimenta dioica 10b–11 40
Ash, green Fraxinus pennsylvanica 8a–8b – 30x75
Ash, pop Fraxinus caroliniana 8a–10a – 20x40
Atemoya Annona x ‘Atemoya’ 10a–10b – 30
Avocado Persea americana 10a–11 20–60
Banana, Cavendish Musa acuminata ‘Cavendish’ 10b–11 5–7
Bangar nut Sterculia foetida 10a–11 75
Basswood Tilia americana var. caroliniana 8a–9b 35x80
Beech, American Fagus grandifolia 8a–8b 60x90
Big leaf snowbell Styrax grandifolia 8a–9a – 18x10
Birch, river Betula nigra 8a–9a – 25x50
Bird-of-paradise tree Strelitzia nicolai 9a–11 20
Black olive Bucida buceras 10a–11 30x45
Black sapote or Diospyros digyna 10a–11 25
chocolate pudding fruit
Blackgum or swamp tupelo Nyssa biflora 8a–9a – 80
Blolly Guapira discolor 9b–11 30x40
Bradford pear Pyrus calleryana 8a–9a – 20x30
Buckthorn, Carolina Rhamnus caroliniana 8a–9b 20x25
Bulnesia Bulnesia arborea 10b–11 – 20x30
Buttonwood Conocarpus erectus 9b–11 – – 15–25
Carambola Averrhoa carambola 10b–11 25
Catalpa or Indian cigar Catalpa bignonioides 8b–9b 35x40
Cedar, red or southern red Juniperus virginiana (= J. silicicola) 8a–9b – 25x60
Cherry laurel Prunus caroliniana 8a–9b 35
Chinquapin Castanea pumila 8a–9a – 15x40
Colville’s glory Colvillea racemosa 10a–11 45
Copperpod Peltophorum pterocarpum 10a–11 – 25x50
Crabapple, southern Malus angustifolia 8a–8b – 20–30
Crabwood Gymnanthes lucida 10a–11 – 20
Crape myrtle Lagerstroemia indica 8a–11 – 15x25
Cuban tamarind Lysiloma sabicu 10b–11 – 25x50
Custard apple Annona reticulata 10a 40x15
Cypress, bald Taxodium distichum 8a–11 – 25x80
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