A small tree to about 15 m with feathery leaves, creamy spring flowers and heavy bunches of red berries that thrushes, waxwings and blackbirds strip in autumn.

A small, graceful native tree (15-20 feet) with fragrant pink pea-flowers hanging in clusters in spring, followed by black bead-like pods that look like a string of beads and persist into winter.

A fast-growing evergreen shade tree to about 30 m with glossy leaves and purple-black oval fruit that stain mouths and pavements every monsoon.

A deciduous conifer with soft, feathery leaves that turn rusty orange before dropping, a straight tapered trunk and, in wet ground, the famous knees.

The world's premier tropical hardwood, a deciduous tree exceeding 30 m (45 m in old stands) with a fluted, buttressed bole, huge rough leaves and sprays of small white flowers.

A dense, narrow, pyramidal evergreen with flat fan-like sprays of scale leaves, tiny cones and stringy reddish bark.

A large, dense, pyramidal to oval shade tree with big heart-shaped leaves that turn pale yellow in fall and extremely fragrant creamy flowers in early summer that hum with honeybees.

A stately tree of more than 20 m with heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green July flowers that hum with bees.

A fast-growing tree (30-40 feet) with heart-shaped leaves that turn brilliant red and yellow in fall and white waxy seeds that look like popcorn on bare winter branches.

A dense, graceful pyramidal evergreen with a drooping leader, pendulous branch tips, tiny flat needles with two white bands beneath and small hanging cones.

The great vase-shaped street tree of pre-1950s America, fast-growing to 60-80 feet with arching limbs and soft yellow fall color.

The toughest shade tree for Central Texas yards: an upright elm, 50-70 feet tall, with the smallest leaves of any native elm, corky-winged twigs and yellow fall color.

A fast, scrappy, vase-shaped elm with small doubly serrated leaves, early-spring flowers and papery seeds that blow everywhere and sprout in every crack.

A multi-trunked small tree (12-20 feet) that covers itself in fragrant pink flowers in early spring just before the leaves, then turns golden yellow in fall.

An elm relative with the classic vase shape of the American elm, smooth gray bark that flakes to orange with age, and serrated leaves that turn yellow, orange, russet or burgundy in fall.