Trees that contain Y — 14 detailed entries

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List of Trees That Contain Y

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.

Taxodium distichum

A deciduous southern conifer that thrives in swamps and bottomlands, raising "knees" from the water and shedding its feathery needles each autumn.

Ficus benghalensis

An immense Indian fig that drops aerial roots from its branches, each maturing into a new trunk until a single tree spans an entire grove.

Laurus nobilis

A Mediterranean evergreen of ancient cultural significance, prized for its aromatic culinary leaves and the laurel wreaths of classical victory.

Prunus avium

A small deciduous tree of the rose family with showy spring blossom and edible drupes, grown for fruit and as the legendary sakura of Japan.

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.

Ilex aquifolium

A glossy-leaved, spine-armed evergreen tree of European woodland with bright red berries, central to midwinter Christmas tradition.

Swietenia macrophylla

A large neotropical hardwood whose reddish-brown wood furnished the great age of European cabinet-making and remains a luxury timber today.

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.

Picea abies

A tall, conical evergreen spruce of northern and central Europe, widely planted for timber and famous as the traditional Christmas tree.

Carica papaya

A fast-growing, single-stemmed tropical tree native to Mesoamerica, prized for its sweet melon-flavoured fruit and digestive papain enzyme.

Delonix regia

A spectacular spreading tropical tree from Madagascar covered in vivid scarlet flowers, planted across the tropics as a "flame of the forest."

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.

Taxus baccata

A slow-growing, dark-needled European evergreen of immense longevity, the wood of medieval longbows and now a source of anticancer drugs.