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Europe

Köppen climate classification, featuring cool to warm summers and cool winters with frequent overcast skies.

Africa

North - arid desert climate, with high temperatures & very little precipitation. East - dry & rainy seasons, South - is generally more temperate.

South America

Is hot & humid, El Nino causes very hot & wet weather along the coasts of northern Peru & Ecuador from April to October.

Asia

Dry across its southwestern region & interior. It experiences low relief as a result of the subtropical high pressure belt; hot in summer, warm /cool in winter, higher altitudes snow.

North America

Variety of climates, from dry to bitter cold of the Arctic to the steamy heat of the tropics. Most parts of the rest of N.A. is cold in the winter and warm in the summer.

Australasia

The north has a tropical influenced climate, hot & humid in the summer, & quite warm / dry in the winter, while the southern parts are cooler with mild summers, sometimes rainy winters.

Trees of Europe

Common Name

  • Field Maple
  • Sycamore Maple
  • Black Alder
  • Strawberry tree
  • Purple European Birch
  • Silver Birch
  • European hornbeam
  • Spanish Chestnut
  • European Hackberry
  • Carob
  • Judas Tree
  • Red Cornel
  • European Filbert
  • English Hawthorn
  • Mediterranean cypress
  • European Beech
  • European Beech ‘purpurea’
  • Narrow-Leaved Ash
  • Flowering Ash
  • English Holly
  • Golden Queen English Holly
  • Tam Juniper
  • Bay Laurel
  • Paradise apple

 

  • Oleander
  • Norway Spruce
  • Canary Island Pine
  • Calabrian black pine
  • Bosnian Pine
  • Stone Pine
  • Myrobalan Plum
  • Morello
  • Turkey Oak
  • Holly Oak
  • Caucasian Oak
  • English Oak
  • Cork-Oak
  • European buckthorn
  • Common Lilac
  • Cedar, Salt
  • Common Yew
  • Windmill palm
  • Smoothleaf elm
  • Slippery elm
  • Scotch elm
  • Russian white elm
  • Snowball Viburnum
  • Laurustinus

Trees of Africa

Common Name

 

Trees of South America

Common Name

  • Paranà Pine
  • Queen Palm
  • Brazilian Orchid Tree
  • Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow
  • Jelly Palm
  • Brazilian Ironwood
  • Green Cestrum
  • Fiddlewood Tree
  • Crucero
  • Common Coral Tree
  • Brazil Cherry
  • Pineapple Guava
  • Blue Jacaranda

 

  • West Indian Lantana
  • West Indian Lantana
  • West Indian Lantana
  • Wax Mallow
  • Prickly Pear
  • Red Frangipani
  • Honey Mesquite
  • Purple Guava
  • Peruvian Pepper Tree
  • Brazilian Pepper Tree
  • Pink Poui
  • Tipa / Pride of Bolivia

Trees of Asia

Common Name

  • Glossy Abelia
  • Trident Maple
  • Japanese Maple
  • Tree of Heaven
  • Formosan Alder
  • Azalea
  • Bamboo
  • Purple Bauhinia
  • White Orchid Tree
  • Betula
  • Purple beautyberry
  • Japanese camellia
  • Tea Plant
  • Indian mahogany
  • Himalayan cedar
  • cedar of Lebanon
  • Chinese hackberry
  • Japanese quince
  • Flowering quince
  • Flowering quince
  • Lawson cypress
  • Camphor laurel
  • Rock cotoneaster
  • Japanese cedar
  • China fir
  • Thorny olive
  • Evergreen spindle
  • Indian rubberplant
  • Sacred fig
  • Chinese banyan
  • Border Forsythia
  • Cape jasmine
  • Chinese hibiscus
  • Rose of Sharon
  • Winter jasmine
  • Chinese juniper
  • Crepe myrtle
  • Chinese privet
  • Korean privet
  • Golden privet

 

  • Formosa sweet gum
  • Sweet gum
  • Chinese fan palm
  • Japanese flowering crabapple
  • Chinese flowering apple
  • Chinaberry tree
  • Dawn redwood
  • Banana shrub
  • White mulberry
  • Orange jasmine
  • Heavenly bamboo
  • Japanese Photinia
  • Oriental Photinia
  • Japanese red pine
  • Aleppo pine
  • Chir pine
  • Taiwan red pine
  • Japanese black pine
  • Oriental plane tree
  • Yew pine
  • Cherry plum tree
  • Flowering peach
  • Scartlet firethorn
  • Narrowleaf firethorn
  • Sawtooth oak
  • Bluejack oak
  • Caucasian oak
  • Bamboo-leaf oak
  • Common oak
  • Yeddo hawthorn
  • Indian hawthorn
  • Rhododendron
  • Snowrose
  • Cape may
  • Bridalwreath
  • Chinese Arborvitae
  • Lacebark elm
  • Siberian elm
  • Sweet viburnum
  • Leatherleaf virbunum

Trees of North America

Common Name

  • Sacred Fir
  • Red Maple
  • Silver Maple
  • Mexican Lily
  • Purple European Birch
  • Southern Catalpa
  • Northern Catalpa
  • Port Orford Cedar
  • Silky Dogwood
  • Hawthorn
  • Hawthorn
  • Mexican White Cedar
  • Monterey Cypress
  • Mexican Grass Tree
  • “Geisha Girl”
  • Pointsettia
  • White Ash
  • Giant furcraea
  • Honey Locust
  • Carolina Silverbell
  • American Holly
  • Little Walnut
  • Bermuda Cedar
  • Red Cedar
  • American Sweetgum
  • American Tulip Tree
  • Southern Magnolia
  • Magnolia ‘Ruby
  • Mexican White Pine
  • Shortleaf Pine

 

  • Spruce Pine
  • Montezuma Pine
  • Western White Pine
  • Patula Pine
  • Ponderosa Pine
  • Monterey Pine
  • Red Pine
  • Pitch Pine
  • Eastern White Pine
  • Loblolly Pine
  • American Sycamore
  • Arizona Sycamore
  • Chinese Douglas Fir
  • Blackthorn / Sloe
  • Scarlet Oak
  • Bur Oak
  • Water Oak
  • Swamp Spanish Oak
  • Netleaf Oak
  • English Oak
  • Black Oak
  • Black Locust
  • Coast Redwood
  • Giant Sequoia
  • Queen Palm
  • Pink Poui
  • Bald Cypress
  • Montezuma Bald Cypress
  • American Elm
  • Spanish Bayonet

Trees of Australia

Common Name

  • Blackwood
  • Pearl Acacia
  • Needle Wattle
  • Sunshine Wattle
  • Swamp Cypress
  • Queensland Kauri Pine
  • Smooth-barked Apple
  • Rough-Barked Apple
  • Broad-leaved Apple
  • Bunya Pine
  • New Caledonian Pine
  • Hoop Pine
  • Norfolk Island Pine
  • Bungalow Palm
  • Coastal Banksia
  • Hairpin Banksia
  • Australian Flame Tree
  • Queensland Lacebark, Pink flame tree
  • Kurrajong
  • Bonducella Nut
  • Lemon Bottlebrush
  • Willow Bottlebrush
  • Alpine Bottlebrush
  • Weeping Bottlebrush
  • White Cypress-Pine
  • Australian Chestnut
  • River She-Oak
  • Australian beefwood
  • Indian Mahogany
  • Himalayan Cedar
  • Carob
  • New South Wales Christmas bush
  • Coastal Coprosma
  • Cabbage Tree
  • Pampas Grass
  • Silver Princess
  • Marri
  • River Red Gum
  • Florist Gum
  • Sugar Gum
  • Karri
  • Brown-barrel Gum
  • Red Flowering Gum
  • Tasmanian Blue Gum
  • Rose Gum
  • Camden Woollybutt
  • Spotted Gum

 

  • Maiden’s Gum
  • Grey Ironbark
  • Black ironbark
  • Swamp Cypress
  • Endeavour River Pear
  • Moreton Bay Fig
  • Natal Fig
  • Port Jackson Fig
  • Red silky oak
  • Linear-leaf Grevillea
  • Southern Silky Oak
  • Spider Net Grevillea
  • Willow Hakea
  • Willow-leaved Hakea
  • Chinese Hibiscus
  • Primrose Tree
  • Wallum Tea-Tree
  • Sweet Gum
  • Tulip Tree
  • Hillock Honey Myrtle
  • Flax-Leaved Paper-Bark
  • Punk Tree
  • Prickly Paperbark
  • Chinaberry
  • New Zealand Christmas Tree
  • New Zealand Christmas Tree
  • Centipede Plant
  • Mousehole Tree
  • Boobialla
  • New Zealand flax
  • Aleppo Pine
  • Eastern white pine
  • Australian cheesewood
  • White Alder
  • False Pepper Tree
  • Firewheel Tree
  • Turpentine Tree
  • Fraser Island Turpentine
  • Malabar Plum
  • Australian Brush-cherry
  • Bald Cypress
  • Yellow Bells
  • Victorian Waratah
  • Common Waratah
  • American Arborvitae
  • Chinese Arborvitae
  • Tipu Tree

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