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  • Prunus virginiana

    Pin cherry, wild red cherry

    This generally small tree may grow up to 15 m tall. Its fairly straight trunk is covered with shiny, smooth, reddish-brown bark.

    Plant form
    Broadleaf tree
    Family
    Rosaceae
  • Tabebuia rosea (Bertol.) DC.

    Pink trumpet tree, pink poui

    This large tree grows 5 to 35 m tall, with a trunk up to 1 m in diameter. It bark is quite deeply furrowed. Its deciduous leaves have 3 to 5 leaflets 5 to 22 cm long.

    Plant form
    Broadleaf tree
    Family
    Bignoniaceae
  • Clusia rosea (Jacq.)

    Pitch apple

    This tree grows to 7 to 18 m on average and is easily recognizable by its wide, dense crown. In Colombia, it sometimes reaches 30 m tall. It has aerial roots.

    Plant form
    Broadleaf tree
    Family
    Clusiaceae
  • Hystrix patula

    Porcupine-grass, bottlebrush grass

    The stem of this plant grows 60 to 120 cm tall. Its leaves are 6 to 12 mm wide and rough on the upper side. Its flowers form an 8 to 17 cm-long spike.

    Plant form
    Herbaceous terrestrial plant
    Family
    Poaceae (Gramineae)
  • Cissus sicyoides L.

    Princess vine

    This climbing plant grows up to 6 m or more. Most of its parts are downy. The simple, rounded and slightly elongated leaves are 2 to 6 cm long. The flowers are white or pale yellow.

    Plant form
    Herbaceous climbing plant
    Family
    Vitaceae
  • Platymiscium pinnatum (Jacq.) Dugand

    Quira, macacauba, macawood

    This large tree grows up to 30 m tall and 1 m in diameter.

    Its pinnate, deciduous leaves are composed of 4 to 7 pairs of leaflets, each of them 5 to 11 cm long.

    Plant form
    Broadleaf tree
    Family
    Fabaceae
  • Samanea saman (syn. Pithecellobium saman)

    Rain tree, saman tree

    This large, fast-growing tree reaches heights of over 25 m and has a characteristic broad crown measuring more than 30 m across, sometime up to 40 m. It has dark, fissured bark.

    Plant form
    Deciduous tree
    Family
    Fabacées
  • Actea rubra

    Red baneberry

    This perennial plant has a stalk 30 to 40 cm long. Its compound leaves are divided into dentate or serrate ovate leaflets.

    Plant form
    Herbaceous terrestrial plant
    Family
    Ranunculaceae
  • Aquilegia canadensis

    Red columbine

    This perennial plant has a fragile 30 to 60 cm long stalk. Its leaves are thin and deeply divided.

    Plant form
    Herbaceous terrestrial plant
    Family
    Ranunculaceae
  • Acer rubrum

    Red maple

    This tree grows 20 to 25 m and sometimes even 35 m tall. The trunk is covered with scaly bark, divided into scaly ridges fastened at the centre and loose at both ends.

    Plant form
    Broadleaf tree
    Family
    Sapindaceae
  • Quercus rubra (anc. Q. borealis)

    Red oak, gray oak

    This tree usually grows 18 to 25 m tall, but may reach over 35 m. Its bark is smooth and gray when young, but develops dark wide grooves and long flat ridges with age.

    Plant form
    Broadleaf tree
    Family
    Fagaceae
  • Pinus resinosa

    Red pine

    This 20 to 39 m tall tree has 10 to 16 cm long needles, in bundles of two. They are shiny dark green and flexible, semi-circular in cross-section. They break in half when bent.

    Plant form
    Conifer
    Family
    Pinaceae