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Almond
Prunus dulcis
A small deciduous fruit tree of the rose family with delicate pink blossom, grown across the Mediterranean and California for its energy-dense seed.
Below are trees that contain the letter M anywhere in the name. Each of the 20 trees below opens to a full profile.
List of Trees That Contain M
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American Sycamore
Platanus occidentalis
A massive eastern North American plane tree of river bottoms, with mottled white bark and the largest leaves of any tree in its range.
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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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Date Palm
Phoenix dactylifera
A tall single-stemmed palm of the Middle East and North Africa, providing sweet, energy-dense dates that have sustained desert civilisations for millennia.
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Elm
Ulmus minor
A stately European broadleaf with serrated leaves and once-dominant urban presence, devastated across much of its range by Dutch elm disease.
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Holm Oak
Quercus ilex
A drought-tolerant Mediterranean evergreen oak with dark, holly-like leaves that anchors the agro-silvo-pastoral dehesa landscapes of Iberia.
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Japanese Maple
Acer palmatum
A small, refined deciduous maple of East Asia, prized worldwide as an ornamental for its delicate leaves and brilliant autumn colour.
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Lime / Linden
Tilia x europaea
A tall European broadleaf of stately avenues, with heart-shaped leaves and fragrant midsummer flowers that perfume the air and feed honeybees.
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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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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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Plum
Prunus domestica
A widely cultivated deciduous fruit tree of the rose family, grown across temperate climates for its juicy, single-stoned fruits.
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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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Red Maple
Acer rubrum
A widespread, fast-growing North American maple whose flowers, twigs, leafstalks, and autumn leaves are all flushed with crimson.
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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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Sycamore
Acer pseudoplatanus
A vigorous large maple of central and southern Europe, with broad shade-casting leaves and a tolerance for salt, wind, and poor soils.
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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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Whitebeam
Sorbus aria
A handsome small European deciduous tree with white-felted leaf undersides that flash in the breeze and bright autumn berries for wildlife.
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