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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.
If you've been searching for trees that start with R, you'll find 5 detailed trees below. We're not interested in giving you only a list of names — every entry on this page links to a full profile with the kind of detail you'd actually want to know.
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Table of contents
| Red Maple | Red Oak | Rowan | Royal Poinciana |
| Rubber Tree |
List of Trees That Start With R
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Red Oak
Quercus rubra
A fast-growing deciduous oak with sharply lobed leaves that turn deep crimson in autumn, widespread across eastern North America.
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Rowan
Sorbus aucuparia
A graceful small deciduous tree of European uplands, with pinnate leaves and scarlet berry clusters that feed late-autumn thrushes.
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Royal Poinciana
Delonix regia
A spectacular spreading tropical tree from Madagascar covered in vivid scarlet flowers, planted across the tropics as a "flame of the forest."
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Rubber Tree
Hevea brasiliensis
An Amazonian tree whose milky latex, tapped from cuts in the bark, became the foundation of the global natural-rubber industry.
About trees starting with R
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