Street Tree Observations Key (Callery Pear & Selkova)

For these street tree observations, I looked around my apartment complex and found these two common trees that are planted in front of most apartments. I have grown up with these plants always right outside so I wanted to finally identify what type of trees they were. The keying was a lot harder for the Japanese Zelkova because I doubted a few of the answers, but the Callery Pear was much easier (with the help of iNaturalist's suggestions too).

Here are the keying processes:

Key to groups: 1’, 2’, 3’, 5’, 8’, 9’, 13’, 14’, 15’ - Group 11

Group: 11 - 1’, 2’, 6’, 7, 8’, 9’, 10’, 11

Species and book page: Callery or Bradford Pear (Pyrus calleryana)

Key to groups: 1’, 2’, 3’, 5’, 8’, 9’, 13’, 14’, 15’ - Group 11

Group: 11 - 1’, 2’, 6’, 7’, 12’, 13
Species and book page: Sawleaf Zelkova (Zelkova serrata)

Posted on May 26, 2020 07:12 AM by