Italian Stone Pine

Sun; evergreen with long needles and a very flat, very distinctive umbrella-like canopy. Slow-growing; young plants can be affected by extreme cold. Stone Pine is a big, long-lived conifer often […]

Aleppo Pine

Full sun; a large evergreen pine, with a rounded canopy and warm yellowish-green leaves. It tolerates hot, dry, alkaline soils with a relatively fast growth rate. \n\nDeep freezes can damage […]

Mexican Ash

Sun or partial shade. It prefers deeper soils and riparian environments but has also been used as a yard tree. Often sold as \”Arizona Ash\” but in fact, the two […]

Pecan

Deciduous sun or shade, with fragrant hickory leaves and a huge, shapely trunk. Probably the tallest-growing tree in Texas. Pecan grows slowly and needs lots of time, space, and deep […]

Texas Sycamore

Full sun. Deciduous with distinctive palmate leaves and sloughing bark. Sycamore is very big, very tall, and fast-growing. (It isn’t especially long lived on dry upland sites though.) It prefers […]

Mexican Sycamore

Full sun. Deciduous with broad silver-bottomed leaves and pale peeling trunks for a striking black-and-white effect. A good shade tree probably more drought tolerant than its American cousin. Mexican sycamore […]

Honey Mesquite

Full sun only. Deciduous, with a rambling, slow-growing form. Recognize it by the long compound leaflets, stout thorns, and wide-spreading, drooping branches. Mesquite flowers periodically during warm weather, and fruits […]

Texas Red Oak

Sun/partial shade; deciduous with vibrant red fall color. Smaller, more multi-trunked and more drought-tolerant than the similar Shumard red oak. Appropriate for alkaline soils. Fruit and foliage are valuable to […]

Hackberry

Deciduous, with coarse, heavily veined leaves; easily identified by the corky projections on its smooth bark. With a fast, carefree growth habit, hackberry is omnipresent in shaded woodlands and especially […]

Cedar Elm

Sun or shade; deciduous. Cedar elm is tall, tough, and adaptable as to soil type; its small, rough leaves, twining branches, and oval canopy are easily recognized throughout south-central Texas. […]