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Health, Safety & Environmental Concerns: 

• Planting near overhead power lines?
  Yes-Redirect to Utility Site No
• Fire Resistance
                               Favorable Unfavorable Conflicting
• Root Damage Potential
                               Low Moderate High
• Health Hazard
                               Is Allergy Is Irritant Is Poisonous
• California Invasive
                               No Yes
• Biogenic Emmissions
                               Low Moderate High

Site Conditions & Constraints:

• Sunset Climate Zone
                              1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
• USDA Hardiness Zone
                              4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
• CA Native
                              Yes
• Exposure
                              Full Sun Full Shade Filtered
• Seaside Tolerance
                              Good Medium
• Salinity Tolerance
                              Moderate Good
• Soil Moisture
                              Wet Moist Dry
• Soil Texture
                              Clay Loam Sand
• Soil pH
                              Very Acidic Slightly Acidic Neutral Slightly Alkaline Very Alkaline

Leaf, Flower & Fruit Characteristics:

• Foliage Type
                              Deciduous Evergreen Partial Deciduous
• Foliage Shape
                              Bipinnately Compound Compound Cordate Deltoid Elliptic Falcate Frond Hollylike Lanceolate Linear Lobed Needle Oblanceolate Oblong Obovate Oval Ovate Palmate Pinnately Compound Even Pinnately Compound Odd Palmately Compound Rectangular Rhomboidal Round Scalelike Spatulate Trifoliate Trilobed
• Foliage Fall Color
                              Bronze Red Gold Orange Purple Multicolored No Change
• Foliage Growth Color
                              Green Light Green Medium Green Dark Green Blue Green Gray Green Bronze Purple Red Lavender Pink Orange Yellow Silver Silver Gray White Variegated
• Flower Color
                              Blue Brown Chartreuse Cream Gray Green Lavender Maroon Orange Peach Pink Purple Red Rose White Yellow
• Flower Fragrance
                              Yes
• Fruiting Habit
                              Fruitless Few Prolific Persistent
• Fruit Color
                              Beige Black Blue Blue Green Green Brown Chartreuse Gray Lavender Orange Pink Purple Red Rose White Yellow
• Fruit Type
                              Achene Acorn Aril Berry Capsule Cone Drupe Follicle Hesperidium Husk/Nut Nutlike Pod Pome Winged Seed/Samara

Tree Characteristics:

• Max Height (ft.)
  = < ≤ ≥ >               20 25 35 50 65
• Longevity
                              Long Average Short
• Max Growth Rate (in.)
                              12 24 36 >36
• Tree Shape
                              Columnar Conical Oval Rounded Umbrella Vase Palm
• Functional Form
                              Low Canopy High Canopy Extensive Area
• Habit
                              Spreading Compact Erect Weeping
• Bark Color
                              Black Bronze Brown Cream Dark Brown Dark Gray Green Light Green Gray Light Gray Orange Pink Purple Red Brown Multicolored Striking
• Bark Texture
                              Blocky Exfoliating Fibrous Furrowed Ridged Rough Scaly Smooth Spiny Striated
• Armament
                              Yes No
• Branch Strength
                              Weak Weak to Medium Medium Medium to Strong Strong
• Litter Type
                              Flower Fruit Dry Fruit Wet Fruit Leaves Twigs Bark

Special Uses & Values:

• Attracts Wildlife
                              Birds Bees Squirrels
• Desirable Wildlife Plant
                              Yes
• Landscape Application
                              Screen Riparian Buffer Strip Specimen Container Street Tree Shade Tree
• Common Landscape Use
                              Topiary Bonsai Espalier Hedged Pleached Pollarding
• Fruit Value
                              Edible Wildlife Use It

Pest & Disease Information:

• Deer Palatable
                              Yes No
• Disease Resistance
                              Anthracnose Blight Crown Rot Fire Blight Mildew Oak Root Fungus Powdery Mildew Scab Texas Root Rot Verticillium Blister Rust
• Pest Resistant
                              Bronze Birch Borer Borer Psyllid Thrip
• Disease Susceptibility
                              Anthracnose Black Mildew Branch Blight Brown Rot Butt Rot Canker Chlorosis Crown Rot Dutch Elm Disease Fire Blight Fusarium Girdling Roots Gummosis Leaf Blight Leaf Spot Leaf Blotch Misletoe Needle Cast Needle Blight Oak Root Rot Phytophthora Pitch Canker Powdery Mildew Root Rot Rust Scab Scorch Sooty Mold Sudden Oak Death Tar Spot Verticillium
• Pest Susceptibility
                              Aphids Borers Beetle Borers Beetle Grubs Beetle Leaves Caterpillars Coddling Moths Husk Fly Insect Galls Leaf Miner Mealy Bugs Midge Insect Pigeons Plant Bug Pod Gall Midge Psyllid Scales Thrips White Fly Leaf Stalk Borer Tussock Moth Japanese Beetle Mites Eryphid Mites Erineum Mites Gall Mites Spider Mites Bagworm Webworm Budworm Nematodes Twig Girdlers Sap Suckers Weevil Deodara Weevil Leaf Rollers

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