Aaron and I had a lot of fun walking around campus to identify trees.

Our first tree was out in the back of the library. We were unable to detect what tree this was from as the app couldn’t tell us much, but we are pretty sure it was the same leaf that Professor Brandes showed us in class, the Eastern Redbud. We noted that on the handout with all of the trees marked out that this Redbud was missing from the list and concluded that it was probably because it was a new tree.

After looking at the Redbud we made a b-line to the famous Japanese Maples behind Colton. Aaron was particularly interested in the trees that were insured on campus. This tree was particularly hard to identify. At first we tried using a single spoke of the leaf with no avail. We realized our mistake and tried using a whole leaf that fell on the ground. However, this leave was red and mangled which also yielded no results. Finally, we picked a leaf off the tree that was flat and green. Then the app was able to identify the type of tree.

Our last tree was outside of Kirby Hall and we are pretty sure it is a Black Locust that we identified by the seeds.