Stacker used information from forestry and landscaping sites to compile a quiz to identify trees by looking at their leaves.

Trees can be identified in winter by observing their needles, bark, branching patterns, and buds. Distinctive bark, such as the smooth gray bark of a beech or the peeling white bark of a paper birch, ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. If you like to hike or snowshoe in the winter, you might like to learn the names of the trees you see. Do so, and the trees will seem like your friends ...

Just like every individual is unique, so are trees. No two trees grow at the same rate, have the same leaf pattern, or have identical bark. However, each tree species has specific characteristics that ...

By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Trees far outnumber people here in North Idaho, and that’s the way residents like it. Still, ...