A beloved small flowering tree (20-30 feet) with rose-pink flowers crowding bare branches in early spring and big heart-shaped leaves.

The Hill Country form of redbud: a small tree (15-20 feet) covered in pink-purple flowers on bare branches in March, followed by glossy, thick, wavy-edged heart-shaped leaves that resist heat better than eastern redbud.

A multi-stemmed small tree or large shrub that covers its bare branches with magenta-pink pea flowers in late winter and early spring, followed by round, heart-shaped leaves and reddish-purple pods that hang on through winter.

Not a true willow but a relative of trumpet vine, with long narrow leaves and fragrant pink-to-white orchid-like flowers from late spring through fall that hummingbirds love.

The understory tree of eastern woods, 15-25 feet with layered branches, big white (or pink) bracts in spring, scarlet fall color and red berries birds strip in autumn.

A multi-stemmed small tree or large shrub to about 8 m (occasionally 12 m) with yellow catkins in late winter and edible nuts in autumn.

A slender, elegant eucalypt to 50 m with powdery white to coppery bark and narrow leaves that smell strongly of lemon when crushed (the source of citronellal oil).

A tall, straight eucalypt to 45 m with a smooth trunk mottled in cream, grey, pink and blue-grey that gives it its name.

A thorny small tree or large shrub to about 15 m, smothered in white May blossom and red haws in autumn.

A slow-growing, usually multi-trunked small tree (12-20 feet) prized for its smooth, peeling silver-gray bark that looks like a crape myrtle's.

A semi-evergreen small to medium tree (20-45 feet) with dark, sandpaper-rough leaves, masses of fragrant white flowers in spring and edible orange berries that birds love.

A thorny small tree or large shrub with silvery, willow-like leaves, fragrant yellow flowers in late spring and mealy silver-to-red fruits that birds spread.

A dense, thorny large shrub or small tree with silver-backed leaves, fragrant creamy flowers in late spring and masses of red, silver-flecked berries in fall that are tart, edible and rich in lycopene.

The national tree of Costa Rica, a huge spreading nitrogen-fixing tree to 40 m with a trunk to 3 m and a crown wider than it is tall, feathery leaves and glossy dark ear-shaped pods.

A tall, fast-growing coral tree to 35 m with a prickly grey trunk and brilliant orange-red flowers pollinated by hummingbirds, borne when the tree is bare.

Australia's most widespread eucalypt, a spreading tree of about 30 m with smooth white-to-red-brown bark shed in ribbons, lining the Murray-Darling and almost every inland river.

A majestic smooth-barked tree of 30 to 40 m casting dense shade, with coppery autumn leaves that young or clipped plants hold all winter.

One of Africa's largest thorn trees, reaching 30 m with a rounded crown and roots to 40 m deep, famous for its reverse phenology: it drops its leaves in the rainy season and greens up in the dry season.

The national tree of India, an evergreen fig to around 30 m whose branches drop aerial roots that thicken into extra trunks, so one tree can spread over hectares (the Great Banyan in Kolkata is the most famous).

A colossal evergreen fig, 30 to 40 m tall and 20 to 30 m across, starting life as a strangler and developing massive buttress roots and a dense rounded crown.

The sacred fig of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, a spreading tree of about 20 m with a trunk 1.5 to 2 m across and heart-shaped leaves on long stalks that tremble in the slightest breeze.

A fast-growing round-headed shade tree (30-50 feet) with compound leaves that turn yellow in fall, native to far West Texas streambanks and planted by the thousands in Austin and San Antonio subdivisions in the 1970s-1990s for quick shade.

A living fossil with unmistakable fan-shaped leaves that turn clear golden yellow and drop almost all at once in autumn.

A medium-large tree with a broad, flat-topped crown of fine, fern-like leaves that cast light, filtered shade and turn yellow in fall.

A fast, upright semi-evergreen tree of 18 to 30 m (to 40 m at home) with fern-like silvery-backed leaves and golden toothbrush flowers full of nectar.

A large, open tree with a coarse, picturesque winter silhouette, deeply fissured scaly bark and huge doubly compound leaves up to 3 ft long that emerge pink-bronze and turn yellow in fall.

Brazil's most beloved flowering tree, a medium-to-large deciduous tree that drops its leaves in the dry season and explodes into pink-purple trumpet blossom before releafing.

A deciduous holly, shrub or small tree (12-20 feet), that drops its leaves in fall to reveal gray twigs loaded with bright red-orange berries that last all winter until the cedar waxwings arrive.

A tough evergreen shrub or small tree (12-20 feet) with tiny glossy leaves, pale gray bark and, on female plants, translucent red berries that persist through winter.

A fast, broad-crowned evergreen legume to about 30 m (usually much less in cultivation) with winged leaf stalks and twisted pods up to 1 m long filled with sweet white cottony pulp around the seeds, eaten like ice cream.