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PROF. MEENAKSHI JAIN KAVITA, 13615

 CONTENT
• TYPES OF TREES :
On the basis of height
On the basis of origin
On the basis of shape
1. Devil tree
2. Bottle brush
3. Amla tree
4. Ashoka tree
5. Silver oak
6. Mango tree
7. Peepal
8. Nili gulmohar
9. Gulmohar
10. Pride of india
11. Cedar
12. Amaltas
13. Mulberry
14. Neem
15. Deodar
16. PINE
 TYPES OF TREES
BASED ON HEIGHT:
• SMALL TREES - 20-25ft HEIGHT
• INTERMIDIATE TREES - UPTO 40ft HEIGHT
• LARGE TREES – BEYOND 40ft HEIGHT
 TYPES OF TREES
BESED ON ORIGIN :
• NATIVE TREES/ INDEGINOUS
• NON-NATIVE/ EXOTIC TREES
• NATURALIST TREES
 TYPES OF TREES
BESED ON shape :
• Round
• Oval
• Open
• Weeping
• Pyramidal
• Columnar
• Conical
• Umbrella shaped
• Vase
• Spreading
• Picturesque
• Irregular
• Open handed
 DEVIL TREE (ALSTONIA
SCHOLARIS)
• It is an evergreen tropical tree
• Large tree
• Native to the Indian subcontinent,
Indomalaya, Malesia, and
Australasia.

Source: self taken

 MARPHOGENEOUS FEATURES
• Height : 40 m (130 ft)
• Flowers bloom in the month
October.
• Leaves occur in whorls of three
to ten
• The upper side of the leaves
are glossy, while the underside
is greyish.
Source: self taken
 USES
• A strong and sturdy
tree resistant to
wind and hence can
be planted in areas
with high wind
speed
• Its leathery leaves
gives an elegant
appeal to the tree
and hence can be use
in landscaping of
parks

Source: self taken

 BOTTLE BRUSH (CALLISTEMON
LANCEOLATUS)
• Family : Myrtaceae
• Evergreen tree
• Small tree
• Native to Tasmania , South-
West of Western Australia
• Require full exposure to sun
for the growth

Source: self taken

 MARPHOGENEOUS FEATURES
• Height : 6m-7m
• Foliage :1-3m
• Fast growing tree
• Flowers appear in march and
october
• Its leaves are arranged
alternately in dooping
branches
• The flowers are red and
arranged in spikes on the ends
of branches

Source: GOOGLE SEARCH

•
USES
Used as an ornamental flower
in landscaping
• Can be used in avenues
• Since being water loving
enhances the landscape if
planted near to them
• Species is draught resistant.
• They're also versatile enough
to work as accents or even as
small flowering trees.
• Can be used as hedge
• As privacy screen
• large shrub for the corner of
the house
• lining a drive or fence

Source: Google search

 AMLA TREE (PHYLLANTHUS
EMBLICA)
• Intermediate tree
• Native to South Eastern Asia,
particularly India, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, Sri lanka.
• Widely used in medicinal
purpose

Source: self taken

 MARPHOGENEOUS FEATURES
• Height : 7-8m
• the leaves are simple,
subsessile and closely set
along branchlets, light green,
resembling pinnate leaves.
• The flowers are greenish-
yellow.
• The fruit is nearly spherical,
light greenish yellow, quite
smooth and hard on
appearance, with six vertical
stripes or furrows.

Source: self taken

 ASHOKA TREE (POLYALTHIA
LONGIFOLIA)
• Evergreen tree
• Graceful ,good for plantation
on roadsides
• Native to India
• Commonly planted due to its
effectiveness in alleviating
noise pollution

Source: self taken

 MARPHOGENEOUS FEATURES
• Height : grow over 30ft
• It exhibits symmetrical pyramidal growth with
willowy weeping pendulous branches and long
narrow lanceolate leaves with undulate margins
• Fresh leaves are a coppery brown color and are
soft and delicate to touch, as the leaves grow older
the color becomes a light green and finally a dark
green.
• In spring the tree is covered with delicate star-like
pale green flowers.
• The flowers last for a short period, usually two to
three weeks, are not conspicuous due to their
color.
Source: self taken
 SILVER OAK (GREVILLEA
ROBUSTA)
• Family : Proteacea
• Fast growing evergreen tree
• It is a native of eastern coastal
Australia, in riverine,
subtropical and dry rainforest
environments receiving more
than 1,000 mm per year of
average rainfall.

Source: self taken

 MARPHOGENEOUS FEATURES
• Height : 18-35m
• Spread upto 5m
• Tall and pyramidal shape
• The leaves are generally 15–
30 cm long with greyish white
or rusty undersides
• Its flowers are golden-orange
bottlebrush-like blooms,
between 8–15 cm long, in the Source: self taken
spring, on a 2–3 cm long stem
 USES
• Ornamental tree
• Can survive the
hardest weather
condition of
draught.
• Can add refreshing
elrment to gardens
in scorching
summer heat.

Source: self taken

 MANGO TREE (MANGIFERA
INDICA)
• Family: Anacardiaceae
• Evergreen tree
• Large tree
• Native to indian sub-continent
• Suitable to be planted for
highways and wide roads

Source: google search

• Height : upto 35m
• Width: 30-38m
• Flowers appear from January
to March
• Leaves are lance shaped and
slightly curved

Source: google search

 uses

• The smoothness of the

leaves reflects the heat
• The way in which leaves are
positioned gives maximum
shade
• Its strong, springy stalks are
not easily broken by the
wind hence a sturdy strong
tree.
• there is rarely any glint of
sunlight to be seen in the
cool shadows of a Mango
tree.
• Commercial value

Source: self taken

 Peepal tree(Ficus religiosa)
• Family : moraceae
• It is native to Indian
subcontinent, south-west
China and Indochina.
• As light and airy as the Banyan
is dark and enveloping, the
Peepal bears long-stalked,
fluttering leaves, heart-shaped
and terminating in a long,
tapering point.

Source: google search

 MARPHOGENEOUS FEATURES
• Huge tall tree with spreading
branches
• Large dry season-deciduous
or semi-evergreen tree
• Fast growing tree
• 30 metres (98 ft) tall
• Spread upto 20m
• The fruit of the tree, grow in
pairs, concealing the flowers

Source: self taken

NILI GULMOHAR(JACARANDA)
• Family : Bignoniaceae
• Sub tropical tree
• native to south-central, south
america ,brazil and now
planted widely in india
• Suitable for parks , gardens,
and road sides

Source: google search

 MARPHOGENEOUS FEATURES
• It grows to a height of 5-15m
• Spreading Round canopy
• Flowers are upto 5cm long and are grouped in 30cm panicles
• Violet blue flowers appear in spring and early summer and last for
upto two months

Source: google search Source: self taken

Uses:
• Beautiful Garden tree
• Ornamental tree
• In the North-West it has been fairly freely planted as it
propagates easily in the sandy-soil
• Widely used in avenues
• The wood of the tree has a pleasant scent, hence adds
refreshing essence the air
 GULMOHAR (DELONOX REGIA)

• Family : Leguminaceae
• fast growing tree
• avenue tree
• Suitable on boundaries of
open spaces to break the
monotony of green and tall
plantation

Source: google search

 MARPHOGENEOUS FEATURES
• it grows upto 10-15 m
• foliage upto 8-10m
• umbrella shaped
• the compound leaves have a feathery appearance and bright green
and are doubly pinnate
• flowers appear in february /march and july august

Source: google search

 ADVANTAGES/ DISADVANTAGES

Advantage Disadvantage
• excellent light shade • The limbs break easily in
trees strong winds and
• quick growing upto 12 • that grass and other plants
meters do not grow
• creates beautiful
avenues ( during • well beneath it.
flowering season the
avenue is joy to catch
eye)
• ornamental tree
PRIDE OF INDIA (LAGERSTROEMIA
SPECIOSA)
• native to tropical southern asia
and also found in india
• small to medium sized tree

Source: google search

 MARPHOGENEOUS FEATURES
• grows upto 20m
• leaves are deciduous, oval to elliptic,8-15 cm longand 3-7cm broad
with acute apex
• flowers blooms at the peak of summer

Source: google search

 CEDAR(Juniperus communis)
• Family : Cupressaceae
• Evergreen tree
• Native to the eastern United
States
• Use a garden tree
• Planted in gardens

Source: self taken

 CEDAR
• Grows upto 20-40 ft
• It has needle-like leaves in whorls of three
• the leaves are green, with a single white stomatal band on the inner
surface.
 AMALTAS(CASSIA FISTULA)
• Family: Leguminaceae
• Also known as golden rain tree
• Native to the indian
subcontinent and adjacent
regions of southeast asia
• Gives a parabola effect when
planted closely on both sides
of a narrow road
• Suitable for arid areas.

Source: google search

 MARPHOGENEOUS FEATURES
• Tall columnar shaped
• it grows upto 10-20m
• Spread upto10m
• It blooms in late spring
• The leaves are deciduous,15-60 long
• Leafless during May- June
• It grows well in dry climate

Source: google search

 MULBERRY(MORUS ALBA)
• evergreen in tropical regions
• also known as shahtoot
• short-lived, fast growing tree
• native to northern china,united
state, mexico, australia and
india

Source: google search

 MARPHOGENEOUS FEATURES
• small to medium sized tree,
grows upto 10-20m
• leaves are 5-15cm
long,unlobed, cordate at the
base and rounded to
acuminate

Source: google search

 NEEM(AZADIRACHTA INDICA)
• Evergreen tree
• Native to india and indian
subcontinent including
nepal,pakistan, bangladesh
and sri lanka
• Very good avenue tree
• Purifies air

Source: google search

 MARPHOGENEOUS FEATURES
• It can reach a height of 15-20m , and rarely 35-40m
• Spread upto 8m
• Pale yellow flowers in april
• Rounded crownmay reach1 a diameter of 15-20m
• Medium sized tree with round canopy
• Fast growing tree
 CEDRUS DEODARA
• Common name : Deodar
• Deodar meaning “meaning the woods of
the Gods”
• Properties:
• Large evergreen coniferous tree
• Height: 40-50 meters
• occurs at 1,500–3,200 m (4,921–
10,499 ft) altitude
• they vary from bright green
to glaucous blue-green in colour.
• Cones are barrel shaped
IMAGE SOURCE : Google :Search
Uses:
• An integral part of the natural and cultural landscape of
the Himalayas.
• Constructional aswell as herbal uses.
• Grows in cold regions and forms a heart rending
landscape.

Cones of deodar IMAGE SOURCE : SELF TAKEN : MECLOGANJ

 Pinus roxburghii
• COMMON name: CHIR PINE
Properties:
 It generally occurs at lower
altitudes than other pines in the
Himalaya, from 500–1,500 m
 Height: Pinus roxburghii is a
large tree reaching 30–50 m with a
trunk diameter of up to 2 m
 gymnosperm
 The bark is red-brown, thick and
deeply fissured at the base of the
trunk
 Leaves: The leaves are needle-like,
in fascicles of three, very slender,
20–35 cm (7.9–13.8 in) long, and
distinctly yellowish green.

IMAGE SOURCE : SELF TAKEN : NIT H

 Uses:
• Forms the part of natural and
cultural landscape of the lower
himachal with altitude less than
1500m
• It is also occasionally used as an
ornamental tree, planted in parks
and gardens in hot dry areas,
where its heat and drought
tolerance is valued.
• Has construction and medicinal
use aswell.

TREE & Cone of Chir pine tree

IMAGE SOURCE : SELF TAKEN (NIT) GOOGLE

•BIBLIOGRAPHY
• CLASS ROOM NOTES
• FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS OF IN INDIA
BY DV COWEN
• WIKIPEDIA/GOOGLE

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