Encyclopedia of Trees

Get information on commonly grown tree species from around the world.

STIHL maintains a large, international encyclopedia of tree species – over 240 varieties of trees and shrubs – described in detail with multiple photographs. Learn each species' typical features, common diseases and other helpful facts. This information will help you identify, plant and care for your own trees and shrubs. The encyclopedia is regularly updated and expanded, so be sure to check back regularly for new info!

Alphabetical search (English Name)

Abele, White Poplar Alaska Cedar, Nootka Cypress Alder Buckthorn Aleppo Pine Almond American Arborvitae, White Cedar American Sycamore, Buttonwood Amur Cork Tree Apple Tree Apricot Armenian Oak, Pontine Oak Arolla Pine, Swiss Stone Pine Ash-leaved Maple, Box Elder Atlas Cedar Austrian Pine, European Black Pine Bald Cypress, Swamp Cypress Balsam Poplar Banana Bay Laurel, True Laurel, Sweet Bay, Grecian Laurel, Laurel Beautybush Bhutan Pine, Blue Pine Billiard Spirea Bird Cherry Black Cherry, Wild Rum Cherry Black Elder, Bourtree, Common Elder, Elderberry, European Elder Black Locust, False Acacia, Locust Black Poplar Black Walnut Black Wattle Blackthorn, Sloe Blue Douglas Fir Blue Noble Fir Bodinier Beautyberry Bodnant Viburnum Border Forsythia Bosnian Pine Bottlebrush Buckeye Bougainvillea Bridal Wreath Bristle Cone Pine Burkwood Viburnum Butcher's Broom Butterfly Bush Canary Island Date Palm Canary Island Dragon Tree, Drago Canary Island Pine Caper Carob Tree, St. John's Bread Caucasian Wing Nut Cedar of Lebanon Cherry Laurel Cherry Plum, Purple Leaf Plum Chilean Pine, Monkey Puzzle Christmas Tree, Norway Spruce Chusan Palm, Windmill Palm Climbing Hydrangea Cockspur Thorn Colorado Spruce Common Alder Common Ash Common Aspen Common Beech Common Box, European Box Common Dogwood Common Gorse Common Hawthorn, Quickthorn Common Holly, English Holly Common Hornbeam Common Juniper Common Laburnum Common Lilac Common Myrtle Common Oak, English Oak, Pedunculate Oak Common Osier Common Pear, Wild Pear Common Privet Common Snowball, European Snowball, Guelder Rose Common walnut Common Whitebeam Copper Beech, Purple Beech Cork Oak Cornelian Cherry Corsican Pine, Calabrian Pine Creeping Cotoneaster Crepe Myrtle, Crape Myrtle Crimson Bottlebrush Date Palm Date-Plum Dawn Redwood Deodar Cedar Deutzia Rose Dove Tree, Handkerchief Tree Downy Birch Dwarf Mountain Pine Eastern Hemlock, Canadian Hemlock, Hemlock Spruce Eastern White Pine, Weymouth Pine Empress Tree, Foxglove Tree, Princess Tree English Elm Eurasian Smoketree, Smoke Bush European Barberry, Common Barberry European Fan Palm European Larch European Silver Fir European White Elm European Yew, Common Yew False Olive February Daphne Field Maple, Common Maple, Hedge Maple Fig, Common Fig Flowering Dogwood Fragrant Viburnum French Tamarisk Gean, Wild Cherry Giant Arborvitae, Western Red Cedar Giant Sequoia, Sierra Redwood, Big Tree Glory Bower, Harlequin Glory Bower Golden Weeping Willow Grand Fir, Lowland Fir Greek Fir Green Olive Grey Alder Gum Rockrose Hazel Hiba Arborvitae Hibiscus, Rose of Sharon Holm Oak, Holly Oak, Evergreen Oak Honey Locust Horse Chestnut Hydrangea Aspera Incense Cedar Indian Bean Tree, Southern Catalpa Indian Fig Opuntia, Prickly Pear Italian Alder Italian Buckthorn Japanese Barberry Japanese Bitter Orange Japanese Cedar Japanese Cherry, Oriental Cherry Japanese Larch Japanese Maple Japanese Mock Orange Japanese Pagoda Tree, Chinese Scholar Tree Japanese Red Pine Japanese Spiraea, Japanese Medowsweet Japanese Yellow Rose, Japanese Kerria Jerusalem Sage, Lampwick Plant Judas Tree Katsura Tree Kentucky Coffee Tree Kermes Oak Kilmarnock Willow Korean Fir Korean Spice Viburnum Kousa Dogwood, Japanese Dogwood Large-leaved Lime, Bigleaf Linden Laurustinus, Lauristine Lawson Cypress Leatherleaf Viburnum Lemon Lombardy Poplar Maidenhair Tree Maritime Pine Mastic Mature Coast Redwood, California Redwood Maule's Quince, Japanese Quince Mediterranean Cypress Medlar Midland Hawthorn Mountain Ash, Rowan Nordmann Fir, Caucasian Fir Norway Maple Oldfashioned Weigela Oleander Olive Orange Oregon Grape Paper Mulberry Peach Persian Ironwood Persian Lilac, White Cedar, Cape Lilac, Chinaberry Tree, Bead Tree Persian Silk Tree, Shabkhosb (= "the night sleeper") Phoenician Juniper Pink Rockrose Pomegranate Ponderosa Pine Prickly Juniper, Cade Juniper, Prickly Cedar Quince Red Elderberry Red Horsechestnut Red Maple Red Oak Red-barked Dogwood Red-flowering Currant River Red Gum Rosemary Scarlet Firethorn Scotch Broom Scots Pine Sea Buckthorn Sea Grape Serbian Spruce Serviceberry, Snowy Mespilus, June Berry Sessile Oak Shrubby Cinquefoil, Bush Cinquefoil Silver Birch Silver Lime, Silver Linden Silver Maple Sitka Spruce Small-flowered Tamarisk, Salt Cedar Small-leaved Lime, Small-leaved Linden Snakeskin Maple Snowberry Southern Magnolia, Evergreen Magnolia Spanish Broom, Weaver's Broom Spanish Chestnut, Sweet Chestnut Spanish Fir Spindle Tree "Red Cascade" Stag's Horn Sumach, Velvet Sumach Stone Pine Strawberry Tree Swedish Whitebeam Sweet Gum Sweet Mock Orange, English Dogwood Sycamore Tasmanian Blue Gum, Southern Blue Gum, Blue Gum Eucalyptus Terebinth Thorny Broom, Spiny Broom Tree Heath Tree of Heaven True Service Tree Tulip Tree Turkey Oak Turkish Hazel Turners Oak Wayfaring Tree Weeping Beech Western Hemlock, Pacific Hemlock, Lowland Hemlock White Fir, Colorado White Fir White Mulberry, Common Mulberry White Willow Wild Service Tree Winter Hazel Winter Jasmin Witch Hazel Wych Elm, Scotch Elm

Alphabetical search (botanical name):

Abies alba Abies cephalonica Abies concolor Abies grandis Abies koreana Abies nordmanniana Abies pinsapo Abies procera glauca Acacia mearnsii Acer campestre Acer capillipes Acer negundo Acer palmatum Acer platanoides Acer pseudoplatanus Acer rubrum Acer saccharinum Aesculus carnea Aesculus hippocastanum Aesculus parviflora Ailanthus altissima Albizia julibrissin Alnus cordata Alnus glutinosa Alnus incana Amelanchier lamarckii Araucaria araucana Arbutus unedo Berberis thunbergii var. Berberis Vulgaris Betula pendula Betula pubescens Bougainvillea spectabilis Broussonetia papyrifera Buddleja davidii hybride Buxus sempervirens Calicotome spinosa Callicarpa bodinieri Callistemon citrinus Calocedrus decurrens Capparis spinosa Carpinus betulus Castanea sativa Catalpa bignonioides Cedrus atlantica Cedrus deodara Cedrus libani Ceratonia siliqua Cercidiphyllum japonicum Cercis siliquastrum Chaenomeles japonica Chamaecyparis lawsoniana Chamaecyparis nootkatensis, Cupressus nootkatensis Chamaerops humilis Cistus incanus Cistus ladanifer Citrus limon Citrus sinensis Clerodendrum trichotomum Coccoloba uvifera Cornus alba Cornus florida Cornus kousa Cornus mas Cornus sanguinea Corylopsis pauciflora Corylus avellana Corylus colurna Cotinus coggygria Cotoneaster Crataegus crus-galli Crataegus laevigata Crataegus monogyna Cryptomeria japonica Cupressus sempervirens Cydonia oblonga Cytisus scoparius Daphne mezereum Davidia involucrata Deutzia rosea Diospyros lotus Dracaena draco Erica arborea Eucalyptus camaldulensis Eucalyptus globulus Euonymus europaeus Fagus sylvatic, Pendula Fagus sylvatica Fagus sylvatica Pupurea Ficus carica Forsythia intermedia hybride Fraxinus excelsior Ginkgo biloba Gleditsia triacanthos Gymnocladus dioicus Hamamelis intermedia Hibiscus syriacus Hippophae rhamnoides Hydrangea anomala Hydrangea aspera Ilex aquifolium Jasminum nudiflorum Juglans nigra Juglans regia Juniperus communis Juniperus oxycedrus Juniperus phoenicea Kerria Japonica Kolkwitzia amabilis Laburnum anagyroides Lagerstroemia indica Larix decidua Larix kaempferi Laurus nobilis Ligustrum vulgare Liquidambar styraciflua Liriodendron tulipifera Magnolia grandiflora Mahonia aquifolium Malus domestica Melia azedarach Mespilus germanica Metasequoia glyptostroboides Morus Alba Musa paradisiaca Myrtus communis Nerium oleander Olea europaea Opuntia ficus indica Parrotia persica Paulownia imperialis Phellodendron amurense Philadelphus coronarius Phillyrea angustifolia Phillyrea latifolia Phlomis fruticosa Phoenix canariensis Phoenix dactylifera Picea abies Picea omorika Picea pungens Picea sitchensis Pinus aristata Pinus canariensis Pinus cembra Pinus densiflora Pinus halepensis Pinus leucodermis Pinus mugo Pinus nigra Pinus nigra laricio Pinus pinaster Pinus pinea Pinus ponderosa Pinus strobus Pinus sylvestris Pinus wallichiana Pistacia lentiscus Pistacia terebinthus Pittosporum tobira Platanus occidentalis Poncirus trifoliata Populus alba Populus balsamifera Populus nigra populus nigra ìtalica Populus tremula Potentilla fruticosa Prunus armeniaca Prunus avium Prunus cerasifera Prunus dulcis Prunus laurocerasus Prunus padus Prunus persica Prunus serotina Prunus serrulata Prunus spinosa Pseudotsuga menziesii Pterocarya fraxinifolia Punica granatum Pyracantha coccinea Pyrus communis Quercus cerris Quercus coccifera Quercus ilex Quercus petraea Quercus pontica Quercus robur Quercus rubra Quercus suber Quercus turneri Rhamnus alaternus Rhamnus frangula Rhus typhina Ribes sanguineum Robinia pseudoacaci Rosmarinus officinalis Ruscus aculeatus Salix alba Salix alba tristis Salix caprea Salix viminalis Sambucus nigra Sambucus racemosa Sequioa sempervirens Sequoiadendron giganteum Sophora japonica Sorbus aria Sorbus aucuparia Sorbus domestica Sorbus intermedia Sorbus torminalis Spartium junceum Spiraea arguta Spiraea japonica Spiraea x billardii Symphoricarpos albus Syringa vulgaris Tamarix gallica Tamarix parviflora Taxodium distichum Taxus baccata Thuja occidentalis Thuja plicata Thujopsis Dolabrata Tilia cordata Tilia platyphyllos Tilia tomentosa Trachycarpus fortunei Tsuga canadensis Tsuga heterophylla Ulex europaeus Ulmus glabra Ulmus laevis Ulmus minor Viburnum burkwoodii Viburnum carlesii Viburnum farreri Viburnum lantana Viburnum opulus Viburnum rhytidophyllum Viburnum tinus Viburnum x bodnantense Weigelia florida

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