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Trying to identify a few tree's in our NEW home we just purchased

12 years ago

Forgive me for being totally "tree" illiterate, but we recently moved into a new home and I would like to identify a few tree's in our front yard. We moved from a condo, so I haven't had much experience with tree identification, lol.

We have been having trouble lately with people sneaking into our yard (literally jumping over our iron fencing and breaking limbs) and stealing pine cones off of the first tree (sorry the photo's aren't better, but I just pulled a few photos off of our pics when we first took pics of the house). Most of the photos show the same tree's, we have 4 of them in our front yard.

The first tree is some type of pine tree with very short needles, very small pine cones (about an inch). The pine needles are very compact and tight, and are a beautiful silvery/blue color but has very pointed limbs unlike the blue spruce. The "pine needles" seem to be like "puffs" of needles down the limbs. It also has a light/white color bark.

You can see the bark and some of the limbs hanging down in the first pics.

The second tree is one I don't know if I've ever noticed. It's an odd tree, but it reminds me of a tree with spanish moss hanging, but it's not spanish moss....what hangs down seems to be like pine needles, very short...but very soft?

Sorry about the photos....I couldn't sort them, however most of the photos are showing different views of the silver/blue/pointed limb pine with the light bark...I would like to identify 3 tree's total...The other tree has red berries on it and in the photo is in front of big windows.

Here is a link that might be useful: tree's

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Comments (7)

gardener365
12 years ago
#1 Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica)
#2 is a Cupressus/cypress - not sure the species; or, it's a possibility it's Chamaecyparis pisifera var. filifera (false-cypress)
#3 (berries) don't know.

Dax
gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
12 years ago
I agree the first (two trees on either side of the first photo) are true cedars, Cedrus atlantica -- not all trees with needles and cones are "pines" :-)

For the other two trees it would be beneficial to have closer shots of the foliage - they are a bit too far away and indistinct to make an accurate identification.
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tracydr12
Original Author
12 years ago
Thanks so much you two!

The third tree isn't that big of a deal, but I'll try to go take closer pics today.

I tried to research and research last night. I found out that my previous searches weren't helping because I was searching for "PINE" tree's and finally I realized that I THOUGHT these other two might be CEDAR tree's. HOORAY! Mystery solved! Now to figure out how to keep weird people out of the yard when they decide they want to break off my branches and steal these little "pinecone" thingies?

UGH.

I'll also try to post another picture of the "cyprus" tree...I love this tree, it's so cute and reminds me of a tree from a Doctor Seuss book.
scotjute Z8
12 years ago
The droopy tree might be some kind of juniper. Mexican Drooping Juniper is the only one I'm familiar with, but its probably not that as I have only seen them in the wild in Tx. Perhaps some type of juniper from Asia.
A closer picture of bark, leaves, and any fruit would help.
rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
12 years ago
The tree with the red berries reminds me of one of the hollies, such as Ilex cassine. A better picture is required for identification purposes.

You don't need to call the cones "little pinecone thingies'....just cones.
deltaohioz5
12 years ago
Do those weird people pole vault that fence?
Embothrium
12 years ago
I'd expect the drooping one to be a juniper also, can't tell from this distance. But definitely not a Sawara cypress. In another whole tree shot I see what resembles a silverleaf oak.

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