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  • Cissus sicyoides L.

    Princess vine

    This climbing plant grows up to 6 m or more. Most of its parts are downy. The simple, rounded and slightly elongated leaves are 2 to 6 cm long. The flowers are white or pale yellow.

    Plant form
    Herbaceous climbing plant
    Family
    Vitaceae
  • Platymiscium pinnatum (Jacq.) Dugand

    Quira, macacauba, macawood

    This large tree grows up to 30 m tall and 1 m in diameter.

    Its pinnate, deciduous leaves are composed of 4 to 7 pairs of leaflets, each of them 5 to 11 cm long.

    Plant form
    Broadleaf tree
    Family
    Fabaceae
  • Samanea saman (syn. Pithecellobium saman)

    Rain tree, saman tree

    This large, fast-growing tree reaches heights of over 25 m and has a characteristic broad crown measuring more than 30 m across, sometime up to 40 m. It has dark, fissured bark.

    Plant form
    Deciduous tree
    Family
    Fabacées
  • Acer rubrum

    Red maple

    This tree grows 20 to 25 m and sometimes even 35 m tall. The trunk is covered with scaly bark, divided into scaly ridges fastened at the centre and loose at both ends.

    Plant form
    Broadleaf tree
    Family
    Sapindaceae
  • Quercus rubra (anc. Q. borealis)

    Red oak, gray oak

    This tree usually grows 18 to 25 m tall, but may reach over 35 m. Its bark is smooth and gray when young, but develops dark wide grooves and long flat ridges with age.

    Plant form
    Broadleaf tree
    Family
    Fagaceae
  • Pinus resinosa

    Red pine

    This 20 to 39 m tall tree has 10 to 16 cm long needles, in bundles of two. They are shiny dark green and flexible, semi-circular in cross-section. They break in half when bent.

    Plant form
    Conifer
    Family
    Pinaceae
  • Rubus idaeus

    Red raspberry

    This plant has upright stems 100 to 150 cm long and covered in weak thorns. The leaves on the new shoots have five leaflets, whereas those on flowering branches have three.

    Plant form
    Herbaceous terrestrial plant
    Family
    Rosaceae
  • Picea rubens

    Red spruce, eastern spruce

    This 16 to 28 m tall tree has four-sided, blunt-tipped, often curved needles, 1 to 2 cm long. They are shiny dark yellowish-green.

    Plant form
    Conifer
    Family
    Pinaceae
  • Trillium erectum

    Red trillium, purple trillium

    This plant grows 20 to 45 cm tall. It has a more upright bearing than other trilliums (its stem is erect).

    Plant form
    Herbaceous terrestrial plant
    Family
    Melanthiaceae
  • Sambucus pubens

    Red-berried elder

    This 1 to 4 m tall shrub has a hollow stem filled with orangish-brown pith. It often grows in clumps. Its opposite leaves are composed of 3 to 7 toothed leaflets. It has stout branches.

    Plant form
    Broad-leaved shrub
    Family
    Adoxaceae
  • Symphyotrichum puniceum (syn. Aster puniceus)

    Red-stemmed aster, purplestem aster

    This 1 to 2 m tall plant has a sturdy, reddish stem covered in stiff hairs. The leaves are spaced 10 to 60 cm apart along the stem and are alternate, simple, toothed and very rough.

    Plant form
    Herbaceous terrestrial plant
    Family
    Asteraceae (Compositae)
  • Rhododendron canadense

    Rhodora, canadian rhododendron

    This small 45 to 120 cm tall shrub has alternate, toothless 3 to 5 cm-long leaves. The leaves are oval, oblong, and obtuse, on short stalks and with slightly rolled edges.

    Plant form
    Broad-leaved shrub
    Family
    Ericaceae