Horticulture 1 – Plant ID Prep for Vocats Exam

1. Horticulture 1 – Plant ID Prep for Vocats Exam

2. I am a tree with the scientific name Acer palmatum. What is my common name? • Flowering Dogwood.   • Japanese Maple.   • Pin Oak.   • Eastern White Pine

3. I am a LARGE, old TREE with leaves that are large and shiny. I have flowers that are white & 6" to 9", and it is messy under the tree because of the cone-likepods and bright red seeds. What tree am I? • Japanese Privet.   • Wax Myrtle.   • Southern Magnolia.   • Red Maple

4. I’m a small deciduous flowering tree that is usually crooked and has white flowers that are really bracts with a brownish color on the tip of each bract is a: • Pin Oak.   • Leyland Cypress.   • Catawba Rhododendron.   • Flowering Dogwood.

5. I live in a hanging basket & have long green leaf-like growth with a long vein down the middle. I have many leaf-like structures called fronds, but no flowers or seeds • Shasta Daisy.   • Glossy Abelia.   • Wax Begonia.   • Boston Fern.

6. I am a large deciduous tree with red flowers in spring. My leaves are dark green with a gray color underneath. Leaves have 3-5 lobes & my bark is light gray. My common name is: • Crape Myrtle.   • Red Maple.   • Flowering Dogwood.   • Eastern White Pine.

7. I’m a plant with 18" long and 3/4" wide leaves with a light greenish line down the midrib of the leaves and have baby plants growing at the tips of my shoots? •  English Ivy.   • Spider Plant.   • Wax Begonia.   • Weeping Fig.

8. A large evergreen tree about 50 feet tall with scale-type leaves and short 1/2" cones is a specimen plant at church. What is the common name for this tree that looks similar to a cedar tree? • Winged Euonymus.   • Leyland Cypress.   • Pin Oak.   • Eastern Red Bud.

9. In a scientific name, cv. means: • Center vein.  • Color variegated.   • Century five.   • Cultivar.

10. A large evergreen shrub with leaves about 2" to 3" long with serrated margins near the leaf tips. It has clusters of small waxy-gray berries. This shrub is a: • Wax Myrtle.   • Willow Oak.   • Bar Harbor Juniper.   • Glossy Abelia.

11. What language is used by the words in scientific classification: • French.   • Russian.   • Spanish.   • Latin.

12. Dwarf Yaupon, Helleri Holly and Dwarf Burford Holly are all in the holly family or the genus called: • Ficus.  • Prunus.   • Juniperus.   • Ilex.

13. A deciduous ground cover that has 3" wide and 7" long leaves that grow in a whorled pattern & can be solid green or green with white. • Hosta.   • Impatiens.   • Wax Begonia.   • Azalea.

14. What is the name of an evergreen ground cover with silvery-blue scale-type leaves. • Blue Rug Juniper.   • Lirope.   • Prayer Plant.   • Hosta.

15. A medium sized deciduous shrub that have 1" long leaves, small spines at the leaf nodes and 1/4" to 1/2" red berries. These shrubs are: • Pin Oak.   • Prayer Plant.   • HelleriHolly.   • Japanese Barberry.

16. The first word in the scientific name of a plant is the • Species.   • Variety.   • Cultivar.  • Genus.

17. Common indoor Christmas plants with bracts or leaves that are red, pink or white on different plants. What is the name of these plants? • Chrysanthemum.  • Geranium.  • Poinsettia.   •  Spider Plant.

18. The scientific name Ilex vomitoria 'Nana'is the common Dwarf Yaupon. Which word is the plant species? • 'Nana'.   • Vomitoria.  • Dwarf.   • Ilex.

19. Aplant with large variegated green and cream colored large leaves that are on a thick trunk is a • Norfolk Island Pine.   • Japanese Barberry.   • Winged Euonymus.   • Dumbcane.