Health, Safety & Environmental Concerns: 

• Planting near overhead power lines? Yes-Redirect to Utility Zones No
• Fire Resistance                              Favorable Unfavorable Conflicting
• Root Damage Potential                              Low Moderate High
• Health Hazard                              Isn't Allergy Isn't Irritant Isn't Poisonous
• California Invasive                              No Yes
• Biogenic Emmissions                              Low Moderate High

Site Conditions & Constraints: 

• Sunset Climate Zone                             1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
• USDA Hardiness Zone                             4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
• California Native                             Yes
• Exposure                             Full Sun Full Shade Filtered
• Seaside Tolerance                             Good Medium
• Salinity Tolerance                             Moderate Good
• Soil Moisture                             Wet Moist Dry
• Soil Texture                             Clay Loam Sand
• Soil pH                             Very Acidic Slightly Acidic Neutral Slightly Alkaline Very Alkaline

Leaf, Flower & Fruit Characteristics: 

• Foliage Type                             Deciduous Evergreen
• Foliage Shape                             Bipinnately Compound Compound Cordate Deltoid Elliptic Falcate Frond Hollylike Lanceolate Linear Lobed Needle Oblanceolate Oblong Obovate Oval Ovate Palmate Pinnately Compound Even Pinnately Compound Odd Palmately Compound Rectangular Rhomboidal Round Scalelike Spatulate Trifoliate Trilobed
• Foliage Fall Color                             Bronze Red Gold Orange Purple Multicolored No Change
• Foliage Growth Color                             Green Blue Green Gray Green Bronze Purple Red Lavender Pink Orange Yellow Silver Silver Gray White Variegated
• Flower Color                             Blue Brown Chartreuse Cream Gray Green Lavender Maroon Orange Peach Pink Purple Red Rose White Yellow
• Flower Fragrance                             Yes
• Fruiting Habit                             Fruitless Few Prolific Persistent
• Fruit Color                             Beige Black Blue Blue Green Green Brown Chartreuse Gray Lavender Orange Pink Purple Red Rose White Yellow
• Fruit Type                             Achene Acorn Aril Berry Capsule Cone Drupe Follicle Hesperidium Husk/Nut Nutlike Pod Pome Winged Seed/Samara

Tree Characteristics: 

• Max Height (ft.)
  = < ≤ ≥ >

                20 25 35 50 65  
• Growth Rate                             Slow Moderate Fast
• Tree Shape                             Columnar Conical Oval Rounded Umbrella Vase Palm
• Habit                             Spreading Compact Erect Weeping
• Bark Color                             Black Bronze Brown Cream Dark Brown Dark Gray Green Light Green Gray Light Gray Orange Pink Purple Red Brown Multicolored Striking
• Bark Texture                             Blocky Exfoliating Fibrous Furrowed Ridged Rough Scaly Smooth Spiny Striated
• Armament                             Yes No
• Branch Strength                             Weak Medium Strong
• Litter Type                             Flower Fruit Dry Fruit Wet Fruit Leaves Twigs Bark

Special Uses & Values: 

• Attracts Wildlife                             Birds Bees Squirrels
• Desirable Wildlife Plant                             Yes
• Landscape Application                             Screen Riparian Buffer Strip Specimen Container Street Tree Shade Tree
• Common Landscape Use                             Topiary Bonsai Espalier Hedged Pleached Pollarding
• Fruit Value                             Edible Wildlife Use It

Pest & Disease Information: 

• Deer Palatable                             Yes No
• Disease Resistance                             Anthracnose Blight Crown Rot Fire Blight Mildew Oak Root Fungus Powdery Mildew Scab Texas Root Rot Verticillium Blister Rust
• Pest Resistant                             Bronze Birch Borer Borer Psyllid Thrip
• Disease Susceptibility                             Anthracnose Black Mildew Branch Blight Brown Rot Butt Rot Canker Chlorosis Crown Rot Dutch Elm Disease Fire Blight Fusarium Girdling Roots Gummosis Leaf Blight Leaf Spot Leaf Blotch Misletoe Needle Cast Needle Blight Oak Root Rot Phytophthora Pitch Canker Powdery Mildew Root Rot Rust Scab Scorch Sooty Mold Sudden Oak Death Tar Spot Verticillium
• Pest Susceptibility                             Aphids Borers Beetle Borers Beetle Grubs Beetle Leaves Caterpillars Coddling Moths Husk Fly Insect Galls Leaf Miner Mealy Bugs Midge Insect Pigeons Plant Bug Pod Gall Midge Psyllid Scales Thrips White Fly Leaf Stalk Borer Tussock Moth Japanese Beetle Mites Eryphid Mites Erineum Mites Gall Mites Spider Mites Bagworm Webworm Budworm Nematodes Twig Girdlers Sap Suckers Weevil Deodara Weevil Leaf Rollers