This is a detailed resource of Tree Names starting with the letter J.
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1. Jopoy, BerlanDier
Scientific Name: Esenbeckia berlandieri
Family: Rutaceae
Native: Western North America; s. Tex to c. Mexico
Type: Semi-Evergreen
Jopoy, BerlanDier is a small tree to 9 m tall with alternate, lemon-scented, shiny, dark-green three leaflets and numerous cream-white to greenish-white flowers.
Its fruit is a 5-lobed woody capsule and its seeds are elastically ejected.
2. Joshua Tree
Scientific Name: Yucca brevifolia
Family: Asparagaceae
Native: Arid mesas and slopes, largely confined to the Mojave Desert of South Calif, South West Utah, and West Ariz.
Type: Evergreen
Joshua Tree is a small, thick-trunked tree with branches extending outward in all directions.
Its longer branches hang down in clusters, and their ends are stiff, sharp, and pointed, with a dark or bluish-green hue.
Its flowers are ellipsoid, densely packed in ovoid panicle-like clusters, and have ellipsoid berries.
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3. Jujube, Common
Scientific Name: Ziziphus jujuba
Family: Rhamnaceae
Native: North and Central Texas and Eastward
Type: Deciduous
Jujube, Common is crown greenish, usually drooping. twig Usually zigzag, thornless, but often bearing paired spines, needlelike with flowers in small clusters in the leaf axils.
Its fruit is round, juicy red, or purplish-red drupe.
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4. Joewood
Scientific Name: Jacquinia keyensis
Family: Primulaceae
Native: West Indies
Type: Deciduous
Joewood is a long-lived shrub or small tree that produces numerous short, rigid branches, giving the plant a compact rounded crown and a distinctive appearance.
Its leaves are yellow-green, stiff, shiny, leathery and its flower is white or ivory-colored, with green calyx, and rounded lobes.
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5. Judas Tree
Scientific Name: Cercis siliquastrum
Family: Fabaceae
Native: Southern Europe and Western Asia
Type: Deciduous
Judas Tree is a small tree up to 12 m with deep pink flowers in spring, and they display a blossom with five free petals and fused sepals.
These are cordate with a blunt apex, which occasionally has a shallow notch at the tip.
It produces long flat pods that hang vertically.
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6. Jacaranda Mimosifolia
Family: Bignoniaceae
Native: South-Central South America
Type: Semi-Evergreen
Jacaranda Minosifolia grows to a height of up to 20 m with thin, grey-brown barks with smooth, fine scales.
Its twigs are slender and slightly zigzag, and they are a light reddish-brown with long grouped flowers, followed by woody seed pods.
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7. Japanese Cryptomeria
Family: Cupressaceae
Native: Forestry plantations in Japan, China, and the Azores islands
Type: Evergreen
Japanese Cryptomeria is a medium evergreen tree that reaches 50-70 feet tall with a conical to pyramidal shape and is resistant to damage with slight salt tolerance.
Its reddish exfoliating bark is quite attractive, and the leaves are saber-shaped, turning into an inwards branch.
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8. Juniper (Genus)
Family: Cupressaceae
Native: Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic, South to tropical Africa, Western, Central, and Southern Asia
Type: Evergreen
The Juniper genus is composed of 52 species of low-growing shrubs. Their long, trailing branches are covered in needle-like scale-like leaves.
These leaves give way to the distinctive, fleshy, berry-like structures that form when the fruit-like scales fuse together. The seeds of Junipers have hard shells.
They can be red-brown or orange, mostly blue.
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9. Juglandaceae (Family)
Native: Eurasia and the Western Hemisphere, in North America
Type: Semi-Evergreen
Juglandaceae contains nine genera and over 60 species of walnuts with aromatic, alternate, pinnately compound, usually with terminal leaflets and tiny, unisexual flowers.
Its fruit resembles a drupe, the husk, and its large seed or kernel is oily and often edible.
10. Juglans (Genus)
Family: Juglandaceae
Native: Eastern Noth America
Type: Deciduous
Juglans are trees with alternate, pinnately compound leaves with lateral buds, which are commonly superposed.
Its flowers are conspicuous, and the fruits are sweet meated
nuts with bony shells which are wrinkled or deeply sculptured on the outside, enclosed in a semi-fleshy, non-splitting husk.
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11. Jujubes (Genus)
Family: Rhamnaceae
Native: Tropics to warm temperate regions in both hemispheres
Type: Both evergreen and deciduous
Jujubes usually have zigzag, thorn-tipped, or thornless twigs and alternate, simple, petiolate, leaves with bisexual yellowish-green, two-celled ovary flowers.
Its fruit is a fleshy drupe with one stone.
It produces edible fruits, often dried like dates.
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Hopefully, this post has assisted you in identifying some great tree names, starting with the letter J.
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