Identification

Carefully examine each of the six specimens below. If you click on the images, they will enlarge, and then you can click again to see greater detail. Try to identify the characteristics of each species and then try to identify the 10 unknown species (there are duplicates). To do so, open you will need to click on the quiz and then drag it to a separate browser window so you can compare the samples in the quiz with the known samples.

Incense cedar (Calocedrus decurrens)

Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia)

Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens)

Gray Pine (Pinus sabinana)

Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa)

Red Fir (Abies magnifica)