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Atlas Cedar
Cedrus atlantica
A handsome blue-green cedar of the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and Algeria, widely planted as an ornamental in temperate gardens.
Looking for 4-syllable trees? Here are 17 trees that fit — each linked to a full profile.
Syllables are counted across the whole name (multi-word names sum). "Apple" is 2 syllables; "Macaroni and Cheese" is 6.
List of 4-syllable Trees
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Avocado
Persea americana
A Mesoamerican evergreen tree whose oil-rich fruit, once a niche tropical product, has become a global staple of modern cuisine.
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Bristlecone Pine
Pinus longaeva
A gnarled, windblown high-altitude pine of the American West, including individuals that are the oldest non-clonal living things on Earth.
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Coconut Palm
Cocos nucifera
An iconic tropical palm of coastal shores worldwide, supplying food, drink, oil, fibre, and shelter to communities across the equatorial belt.
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Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus globulus
A vast genus of fast-growing Australian evergreen trees with peeling bark and aromatic oily leaves, now the most widely planted hardwood worldwide.
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Frangipani
Plumeria rubra
A small deciduous tropical tree with intensely fragrant pinwheel flowers, beloved across tropical Asia as a temple and graveyard tree.
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Joshua Tree
Yucca brevifolia
A surreal branching yucca of the Mojave Desert, with spiky leaf rosettes that pivot toward the sun and ivory flower spikes pollinated by a single moth.
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Magnolia
Magnolia grandiflora
An ancient family of flowering trees with large, fragrant, primitive blooms that predate bees, treasured as ornamentals across the temperate world.
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Mahogany
Swietenia macrophylla
A large neotropical hardwood whose reddish-brown wood furnished the great age of European cabinet-making and remains a luxury timber today.
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Norway Maple
Acer platanoides
A vigorous European maple with milky sap, widely planted in cities for its dense shade and now invasive in much of North America.
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Pistachio
Pistacia vera
A small deciduous tree of the Central Asian arid zones, cultivated for thousands of years for its green-kerneled nuts and rosy split shells.
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Pomegranate
Punica granatum
A small deciduous tree or shrub of the Middle East and the Caucasus, cultivated for its leathery red fruit filled with juicy, jewel-like seed arils.
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Quaking Aspen
Populus tremuloides
The most widely distributed tree in North America, famous for its shimmering golden autumn groves and for forming the largest clonal organism on Earth.
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Silver Maple
Acer saccharinum
A fast-growing North American maple of river bottoms, named for the silvery undersides of its deeply lobed leaves.
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Sugar Maple
Acer saccharum
A deciduous hardwood of northeastern North America famed for spectacular autumn colour and as the source of maple syrup.
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Weeping Willow
Salix babylonica
A graceful, water-loving deciduous tree of East Asian origin, with long pendulous branches that sweep the ground beside ponds and streams worldwide.
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Western Hemlock
Tsuga heterophylla
A graceful, shade-loving evergreen conifer that dominates the wet temperate forests of the Pacific Northwest beneath the Douglas fir canopy.
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