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Tree habit in winter and summer. Photo was taken at Morton Arboretum. Tree has been cut down. |
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Picture looking up into the branches of Ailanthus altissima in winter and summer. This is the tree that is shown above. |
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Ailanthus altissima - end of branch showing leaf scar and bundle scars |
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This row of mature trees was located in Naperville, Illinois just west of the parking garage on Benton. Houses and trees on these lots were demolished in the fall of 2007. These trees may have produced the seeds that resulted in the trees below. This property was cleared in the summer/fall 2009 and parking garage was extended. |
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Picture on left shows leaf scar on a young Tree of Heaven near the Naperville post office. Picture on right is the end of the end of a leaf. |
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Tree of Heaven flowers |
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The Tree of Heaven has very long compound leaves. This is just one leaf with 28 leaflets. The entire leaf is about 31 inches long. |
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Closeup of leaflets from Ailanthus altissima. Note the glands near the tips of lower lobes |
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Fruit on Ailanthus altissima. These photographs are of a tree that is near the Art League building along the Riverwalk in Naperville, Illinois. All pictures were taken at the same time, but the dried ones were on a broken branch that was on the ground. |
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