Maple, Sycamore, yellow poplar, and sweetgum trees are known for their lobed leaves, which turn bright colors in fall. Here's how to tell them apart.

All of this information can help you find the essential markers needed to identify a tree. Leaves, bark, twigs, and fruit can make quick work of tree identification.

And when it’s really too cold or nasty outside, I would suggest a virtual tour of regional trees and how to identify them with the Cornell Cooperative Extension through their Youtube channel ...

Another characteristic to identify on deciduous trees is the kind of fruit, berry, nut, catkin, pod or seed (think maple whirligigs) it produces.

Children learned how to identify maple trees, how to tap a tree, and then got to taste the sap.