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Douglas Fir
Pseudotsuga menziesii
A towering evergreen conifer of western North America, the workhorse softwood of the Pacific Northwest timber economy.
Below are trees that contain the letter G anywhere in the name. Each of the 13 trees below opens to a full profile.
List of Trees That Contain G
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English Oak
Quercus robur
A long-lived deciduous broadleaf from Europe and western Asia, prized for its dense timber and the ecological hub of native woodland.
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Fig
Ficus carica
A small Mediterranean deciduous tree with deeply lobed leaves and unique inside-out flowers that develop into the sweet, soft, syrupy fig fruit.
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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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Giant Sequoia
Sequoiadendron giganteum
The most massive tree on Earth by volume, an evergreen conifer of the western Sierra Nevada whose fire-blackened trunks can outlast civilisations.
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Ginkgo
Ginkgo biloba
A living fossil from China, the sole survivor of an ancient lineage older than the dinosaurs, with unmistakable fan-shaped leaves that turn pure gold in autumn.
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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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Mango Tree
Mangifera indica
A large evergreen tropical tree native to South Asia, cultivated across the tropics for its sweet, fragrant stone fruit.
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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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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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