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If your specimen is/has: | with leaflet margin (edge): | with (seasonally) flower cluster: | | then you have: |
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tree; bark=smooth, tan or light gray-green with optional shallow tan furrows, lots of lenticels |
___ smooth, except base has (0-)1-2(-4) ∩ bumps; crushed leaflets (mash well) 👃︎ smell like peanut butter or rotting cashews | large, above branch, yellow-to-orange |
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lookalike
tree of heaven (ToH) Ailanthus altissima
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tree; bark=deeply furrowed tan; some months nuts on or under tree, which do not separate into sections |
▲▲ toothed with long teeth visible within arm's length; leaf=very large (>20 cm) (>8 in), leaflets=large (4-20 cm) (1½-8 in)
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green catkin
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lookalike
butternut Juglans cinerea
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shrub, 2-3(-5) × the height of an 🚶︎ adult human; stem and twigs=hairy |
▲▲ toothed with large teeth visible from 3 steps back; leaf injury exudes milky juice | size of very-large ice cream cone, inverted above branch, yellow-green (flower) or deep-red (fruit) |
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