a maple native to the mountains and canyons of the Trans-Pecos Region of Texas, grows to 30 and 40 feet high and occasionally 8 to 10 inches in diameter. Its bright red branchlets are nearly encircled by the narrow [leaf-scars]. Leaf lobes few toothed or nearly entire. When accessible, the wood is valuable for fuel and building material.
UVALDE BIGTOOTH MAPLE (Sugar or Mountain Maple)
(Acer grandidentatum var. sinuosum [Rend.] Little)
resembles the above two maples but is confined to the Balcones Escarpment in western Texas along creek bottoms in parts of Kendall, Bandera, and Uvalde Counties. It is a rare tree, seldom more than 20 feet high. Branchlets pale red-brown and marked by pale [lenticels] during their first season, ultimately turning dull gray-brown.
FLORIDA BASSWOOD
(Tilia floridana Small)
grows from East Texas to the Edwards Plateau. The leaves are coarsely [serrate] with sharp-pointed tips, dark green and [glaucous] above, and pale or covered with a silvery-white [bloom] and often axillary hairs below. The tree may reach 40 to 50 feet high and 12 to 15 inches in diameter.
CAROLINA BASSWOOD
(Tilia caroliniana Mill.)
located in East Texas to the Edwards Plateau, Kendall County. Underside of the [ovate] leaves covered with soft, short, brownish-white hairs; smooth on upper surface and coarse-veined. Leaves usually obliquely [truncate] at the base.
TAMARISK
(Tamarix species)
all of the many species of Tamarix are native to the Mediterranean Region or to East Asia and India. However, three of them (T. araiculata Vahl, T. gallica L., and T. pentandra Pall.), are widely planted in the South. All are shrubby in nature, or they may attain the stature of small trees. When of tree size, the trunk normally is short, with main branches quite close to the ground. This gives rise to a wide-spreading bushy [crown]. The leaves are sparse, delicate, evergreen, [alternate], [simple], small, scale-like, pale green to dull or bluish-green, [ovate] or rhombic, sharp pointed, sometimes with thin, dry margins, and without petioles. The foliage presents a leathery appearance. The wood is hard, heavy, white to light straw colored, shows a prominent mottled wavy pattern when quarter-sawn, and takes a high polish.