Horticulture 1 – Plant ID Prep for Vocats Exam

1) An interior plant that is about 4 feet tall and looks similar to a little pine or cedar tree with dark

green leaves.A) Eastern White Pine

B) Evergreen Euonymus

C) Norfolk Island Pine

D) Weeping Fig

a. Norfolk Island Pine.  b. Japanese Barberry.  c. Winged Euonymus.  d. Dumbcane.

2) A plant with large variegated green and cream colored large leaves that are on a thick trunk is a

3) An indoor flowering plant grown for hanging baskets and potted plants and has red, white or pink flowers and green leaves

that usually have long petioles and is popular for Mother’s day is a:

A) Boston Fern

B) Catawba Rhododendron

C) Geranium

D) Japanese Flowering Cherry

A) Chrysanthemum. B) Geranium. C) Poinsettia.  D) Spider Plant.

4) Common indoor Christmas plants with bracts or leaves that are red, pink or white on different plants. What is the name of these plants?

A) Blue Rug Juniper.  B) Lirope.  C) Prayer Plant.  D) Hosta.

5) What is the name of an EVERGREEN ground cover with SILVERY-BLUE scale-type leaves?

6)A medium evergreen shrubs with reddish-green 1" long leaves and

small clusters of BUGLE-SHAPED WHITE flowers.

A) Glossy Abelia

B) Ivy Leaf Geranium

C) Ajuga

D) Japanese Aucuba

a. Pin Oak.  

b. Japanese Barberry

c. Helleri Holly.  

d. Prayer Plant.

7) A medium sized deciduous shrub that have 1” long leaves, small spines at the leaf nodes and ¼” to ½” red berries. What am I?

8) A dwarf evergreen shrub about two feet high and two feet wide with dark green mature leaves about ½” to 1”

long. New spring growth is light green and the stems are a gray color.

A)Bradford Pear

B)Dwarf Yaupon

C)Japanese Maple

D)Shore Juniper

9) A medium size deciduous shrub with dark green leaves 1" to 2" long

that turn a glowing brilliant red in the fall.

A) Helleri Holly.B) Spider Plant. C) Blue Harbor Juniper. D) Winged Euonymus

10) A large evergreen shrub with leaves that are 1 ½” to 3” long and about half as wide as their length. Some have all green leaves, some had gold around the leaves,

and some had white around the leaf edges. What am I?

A)Eastern Red Bud

B)Evergreen Euonymus

C)Lirope

D)Mondo Grass

11Small DECIDUOUS tree, deep pink double

flowers that are 2” and used as an accent plant in the landscape.

1. Helleri Holly

2. Japanese Flowering Cherry

3. Norfolk Island Pine

4. Weeping Fig

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Large EVERGREEEN SHRUB with dark green leaves that are 3” long and 1/5” wide with raised veins. It has ¼” dark purple berries with a hard seed inside.

1. Border Forsythia

2. Day lily

3. Japanese Privet

4. Sprengeri Fern

13)A large deciduous shrub with many bright YELLOW flowers

in very early spring.

A. Shasta Daisy. B.   Mungo Pine. C.   Parlor Ivy. D.   Border Forsythia.

14) A small deciduous tree with HEART-SHAPED leaves, long brown BEAN-type pods and

PURPLE flower.

A. Eastern Red Bud. B.   Ajuga. C.   Eastern White Pine. D.   English Ivy.

Heart shaped leaves

15) A large evergreen shrub with many LARGE FLWOERS and dark green leaves with smooth margins. The leaves are about 5" long and 2" wide Grows beside the roads in the

mountains of North Carolina.

A. River Birch. B.   Bar Harbor Juniper. C.   Catawba Rhododendron. D.   Japanese Privet.

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:

a. Wax Myrtle.  b. Willow Oak.  c. Bar Harbor Juniper.  d. Glossy Abelia.

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17)

SMALL DECIDUOUS TREE with white, pink, red and purple flowers. Trees have SMOOTH bark and flower in late summer.

1. Crape Myrtle

2. Evergreen Euonymus

3. Prayer Plant

4. Red Maple

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:

a. Pin Oak.  

b. Leyland Cypress.  

c. Catawba Rhododendron.  

d. Flowering Dogwood.

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19 A medium-size deciduous tree that has four trunks or

stems with THIN SHEETS of light color bark PEELING off

each trunk. What is the common name of this tree?

A. Sweetgum. B.   Japanese Barberry. C.   Red Maple. D.   River Birch.

20) A medium-size deciduous tree with flowers that also has 1" to 2" diameter fruit and green, red

or purple leaves in summer.

A. Pin Oak.

B.   Willow Oak.

C.   Mungo Pine.

D.   Flowering Crabapple.

21) A deciduous tree that has WHITE flowers in the spring and

REDDISH PURPLE in the autumn. They grow in a SYMMETRICAL shape with little or no pruning.

A. Dwarf Burford Holly.

B.   Border Forsythia.

C.   Bradford Pear.

D.   Japanese Aucuba.

White- Spring

Reddish Purple -Fall

22) A large evergreen tree with clusters of needle-like leaves about four inches long.

There were five leaves or needles per cluster. He saw some curving BROWN

CONES under the tree. What is the common name of this tree?

A. Eastern White Pine. B.   Azalea. C.   Red Maple. D.   Eastern Red Bud.

5 needles per cluster

Cones, Needles

23) A large deciduous tree about 50 feet tall with leaves that have 5-7

lobes and 3-4 BRISTLE TIPS on each lobe that turn brilliant red in the

autumn. It also has ACORNS. A. Pin Oak. B. Red Maple. C. Weeping Fig. D. River Birch.

  

Bristle tips

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?

a. Winged Euonymus.  b. Leyland Cypress.  c. Pin Oak.  d. Eastern Red Bud.

24)

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-LIKE PODS and bright red seeds. What tree am I?

a. Japanese Privet.  

b. Wax Myrtle.  

c. Southern Magnolia.  

d. Red Maple

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26) Large DECIDUOUS TREE with STAR-SHAPED leaves that turn yellow, orange, red and purple.Has fruit that is covered in burrs

and looks like a prickly ball.

1. Crape Myrtle2. Norfolk Island Pine3. Sweetgum4. Winged Euonymus

27) Large DECIDUOUS TREE that’s 60 ft tall. It has NARROW

leaves & small ACORNS.

1. Eastern White Pine

2. Leyland Cypress

3. Red Maple

4. Willow Oak

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?

a.  English Ivy.  

b. Spider Plant.  

c. Wax Begonia.  

d. Weeping Fig.

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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.

a. Hosta.  b. Impatiens.  c. Wax Begonia.  d. Azalea.

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A) Chrysanthemum. B) Geranium. C) Poinsettia.  D) Spider Plant.

30) A florist plant that is used at Christmas with bracts or leaves that are red, pink or white on different plants. What is the name of these plants?

31) A large evergreen shrub with many LARGE FLOWERS and dark green

leaves with smooth margins. The leaves are about 5" long and 2" wide Grows beside the roads in the mountains of

North Carolina.

Catawba Rhododendron. Leyland Cypress Mugo Pine Winged Euonymus

22) Small DECIDUOUS flowering tree with crooked branches and white flowers called bracts. The bracts have brownish color on

the tips. A. Catawba Hydrid

B. Flowering Dogwood

C. Leyland Cypress

D. Pin Oak

33) A medium-size deciduous tree that has unusually THIN

brown bark PEELING off several of its stems or trunks. What is the

common name of this tree?

A. Sweetgum. B.  River Birch C. Japanese Barberry. D.  Red Maple.   .

34) A large evergreen tree with clusters of needle-like leaves about four inches long.

There were five leaves or needles per cluster. He saw some curving BROWN

CONES under the tree. What is the common name of this tree?

A. Azalea. B. Eastern Red Bud. C. Eastern White Pine. D. Red Maple.

5 needles per cluster

Cones, Needles

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-LIKE PODS and bright red seeds. What tree am I?

a. Japanese Privet.  

b. Wax Myrtle.  

c. Southern Magnolia.  

d. Red Maple

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36) A tall DECIDUOUS TREE with dark green STAR-SHAPED leaves & many prickly balls or burrs on the

ground.

1. Eastern Red Bud2. Eastern White Pine3. River Birch4. Sweetgum

37) A DECIDUOUS TREE with acrorns and narrow green

leaves that grows to about 60 ft.

1. Flowering Dogwood

2. Norfolk Island Pine

3. Sweetgum

4. Willow Oak

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

a. Boston Fern.

b. Glossy Abelia.

c. Shasta Daisy.   

d. Wax Begonia.  

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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?

a.  Shore Juniper  

b. Spider Plant.  

c. Swedish Ivy 

d. Weeping Fig.

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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:

a. Crape Myrtle.  

b. Eastern White Pine.

c. Flowering Dogwood. 

d. Red Maple.

40)

In a scientific name, cv. means:

a. Center vein. 

b. Color variegated.  

c. Century five.  

d. Cultivar.

41)

Dwarf Yaupon, Helleri Holly and Dwarf Burford Holly are all in the holly family or the genus called:

a. Ficus. b. Prunus.  c. Juniperus.  d. Ilex.

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43) The Scientific name of a plant is Ficus benjamina, what is the

common name?

A) English Ivyb) Impatiensc) Peace lily

d) Weeping Fig

44)

The scientific name for an azalea is:

a) Cornus Florida

b) Ficus benjamina

c) Rhododendron kiusianum

d) Saintpaulia ionatha

45)

A tree with the word “Pinus” in the scientific name is in what family?

a) Maple

b) Pine

c) Oak

d) Sweetgum

What is the scientific name for a Flowering Dogwood?

A. Acer rubrum.

B.   Liriope muscari.

C.   Cornus florida.

D.   Targetes erecta

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47)

In the scientific name Ficus elastic Decora which is the Decora Rubber Plant, the word ‘Decora’ is the:

a) Genus

b) Kingdom

c) Species

d) Variety

What language is used by the words in scientific classification:

a. French.  b. Russian.  c. Spanish.  d. Latin.

48)

I am a tree with the scientific name Acer palmatum. What is

my common name?

a. Flowering Dogwood.  

b. Japanese Maple.  

c. Pin Oak.  

d. Eastern White Pine

49)

The first word in the scientific name of a plant is the

a. Species.  b. Variety.  c. Cultivar. d. Genus.

50)

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

a. 'Nana'.  b. Vomitoria. c. Dwarf.  d. Ilex.