| Friends of the Louisiana State Arboretum

Featured Species: Throughout the trail system of the arboretum, you will find dozens of interpretive signs providing detailed information for featured species of special importance or interest. That information is gathered here for easy reference. Featured species are listed by common names, with shortcut navigation by alphabet letter. You may also use the search blank to search by either common name or scientific name.

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Red Buckeye (Aesculus pavia )

Deciduous shrub or short tree with opposite, palmately compound leaves and gray-brown, smooth, “splotchy” bark.

Red Mulberry (Morus rubra)

Medium tree with alternate, deciduous leaves that can be unlobed or two or three-lobed; gray-brown, scaly bark.