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Key to Identifying Common Colorado Landscape Trees – 50

Previous Steps

1b – Alternate leaf arrangement on stem — go to 18
- 18a – Leaf simple — go to 19
  - 19b – Thornless — go to 22
    - 22e – All leaves unlobed — go to 31
      - 31d – Leaf is oval or oblong (twice as long as wide) — go to 40
        
        40b – Leaf base symmetrical — go to 43
        
        43b – Leaf margin not wavy or only slightly wavy; margin obviously toothed — go to 44
        
        44b – Petiole less than 1 inch long — go to 45
        
        45b – Irregular pinnate venation; veins may curve slightly, usually splitting and forking near the leaf margin — go to 48
        
        48b – Usually glands on petiole or base of leaf. Stems and buds not hairy — go to 50

Current Step

50a – True terminal bud absent — Plum, go to 51

50b – True terminal bud present — Cherry, go to 54

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