Box Elder
(Acer negundo)

Tree Description

Generally poor form although this specimen is full and lovely.  Has multiple trunks.   

Leaf Description

• Leaf Texture is smooth on top, pubescent below
  
• Leaf Arrangement is opposite
• Leaf Margin is coarsely serrated or somewhat lobed
• Leaf Venation is pinnate
• Leaf Division is pinnately compound, 3 to 5 leaflets
• Leaf Attachment is Petiolate

Bark Description
       
The bark is thin and gray to brown.  It has interwoven ridges.

Twig and Bud Description

                
Twigs are purplish-green.  They are slender or moderately stout.

Fruit Description 

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Resources:

• http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/main.htm
• Symonds, George W. D. The Tree Identification Book. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1958.
• Trees and Nonflowering Plants. The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.,1998