The Miracle of Fall - Foliage Trees

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Foliage Trees

Common Name	Latin Name	Fall Foliage Color
Hedge Maple	Acer campestre	Yellow or golden
Vine Maple	Acer circinatum	Reddish yellow
Amur Maple	Acer ginnala	Yellow to deep red
Paperback Maple	Acer griseum	Green, red-brown to bright red
Bigleaf Maple	Acer macrophyllum	Yellow to gold
Fernleaf Fullmoon Maple	Acer japonicum ‘Aconitifolium’
Japanese Maple	Acer palmatum	Yellow bronze, purple or red
Crimson King Maple	Acer platanoides 'Crimson King'	Reddish-orange
Planetree Maple	Acer pseudoplatanus	Dingy brown to yellow
Red Maple	Acer rubrum	Green-yellow, yellow and red
Silver Maple	Acer saccharinum	Green-yellow
Sugar Maple	Acer saccharum	Orange-yellow
Paperback Birch	Betula papyrifera	Yellow
European White Birch	Betula pendula	Yellow
European Hornbeam	Carpinus betulus	Yellow
Northern Catalpa	Catalpa speciosa	Yellow to green
American Hornbeam	Carpinus caroliniana	Yellow
Katsuratree	Cercidiphyllum japonicum	Apricot-orange
Kousa Dogwood	Cornus kousa	Purplish-red to scarlet
Washington Hawthorn	Crataegus phaenopyrum	Yellow
American Beech	Fagus grandifolia	Brown to yellow, golden bronze
European Beech	Fagus sylvatica	Brown to yellow, golden bronze
Green Ash	Fraxinus pennsylvanica	Yellow
Ginkgo	Ginkgo biloba	Yellow
Thornless Honeylocust	Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis	Yellow
Kentucky Coffeetree	Gymnocladus dioicus	Yellow
Common Witchhazel	Hamamelis virginiana	Yellow
Black Walnut	Juglans nigra	Yellow
Panicled Goldenraintree	Koelreuteria paniculata	Yellow
American Sweetgum	Liquidambar styraciflua	Yellow, purple or red
Tuliptree	Liriodendron tulipifera	Yellow to yellow brown
Sour Gum, Black Gum, Black Tupelo, Pepperidge	Nyssa sylvatica	Bright red
Sourwood, Lilyof the Valley Tree	Oxydendrum arboreum	Yellow red to purple
Ironwood or Hop Hornbeam	Ostrya virginiana	Yellow
Amur Corktree	Phellodendron amurense	Yellow to bronze yellow
Eastern Cottonwood	Populus deltoides	Yellow
Quaking Aspen	Populus tremuloides	Yellow
Japanese Flowering Cherry	Prunus serrulata	Red
Callery Pear	Pyrus calleryana	Reddish purple
Eastern White Oak	Quercus alba	Red
Scarlet Oak	Quercus coccinea	Russet, scarlet or red
Pin Oak	Quercus palustris	Russet
English Oak	Quercus robur	Brownish yellow
Red Oak	Quercus rubra	Yellow-brown to russet-red
Common Sassafras	Sassafras albidum	Yellow, orange or scarlet
European Mountain Ash	Sorbus aucuparia	Yellowish brown
Common Baldcypress	Taxodium distichum	Rich brown
American Elm	Ulmus americana	Scarlet
Japanese Zelkova	Zelkova serrata	Russet

Shrubs

Common Name	Latin Name	Fall Foliage Color
Wintergreen Barberry	Berberis julianae	Red
Grey Dogwood	Cornus racemosa	Deep red
Common Smoketree	Cotinus coggygria	Yellow, red-purple
Willowleaf Cotoneaster	Cotoneaster salicifolius	Red
Rockspray Cotoneaster	Cotoneaster horizontalis	Dark red
Redvein Enkianthus	Enkianthus campanulatus	Yellow, orange and bright scarlet
Compact Winged Euonymus, Burning Bush	Euonymus alatus ‘Compactus’	Bright red
Rose of Sharon, Shrub Althea	Hibiscus syriacus	Yellow
Oakleaf Hydrangea	Hydrangea quercifolia	Red, orange, purple
Common Crepe Myrtle	Lagerstroemia indica	Red
Staghorn Sumac	Rhus typhina	Yellow, orange & scarlet
Highbush Blueberry	Vaccinium corymbosum	Red
Wayfaringtree Viburnum	Viburnum lantana	Purplish red
Virginia Creeper	Parthenocissus quinquefolia	Red
Boston Ivy	Parthenocissus tricuspidata	Red and scarlet
European Cranberrybush Viburnum	Viburnum opulus	Yellow-red or reddish purple
Poison Oak	Rhus diversiloba	Red and gold

More Fall Foliage Trees

Over 100 pictures of fall foliage from Virginia Tech
http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/fall/biglist_framecommon.htm

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