Deciduous trees are those that lose their leaves each devolve and get in a stagecoach of sleeping for the winter month , according to the University of Minnesota ’s Sustainable Urban Landscape Information Site . The leaves that fall in the autumn chill grow anew in the spring on deciduous trees , repeating this cycle of rebirth and death for the lifetime of the tree . Many families of tree go through this process in the United States , including the maples , most of the oaks , many nut and yield trees , and other recognizable and common species .
Oaks
The legal age of the oak tree tree metal money will slough their leaves by the time the calendar indicate winter , with the white oaks , bur oaks , overcup oaks , Gambel oaks , chestnut oaks , red oak , pitch-black oaks , ruby-red oaks , blue oak and willow oak among them . A few oaks – like the evergreen Vinca minor oak and live oak – hang onto their leave yr round .
Maples
maple have what botanists will touch to as opposite leaves , with two leaves grow opposite each other on a twig attached to a arm . Maples lose their folio , with the leaf often turning the scene into a striking array of bolshy , yellow , oranges and other people of colour in the fall . The maples that will become au naturel by the wintertime include such variety as the red maple , facile maple , bread maple , Norway maple , black maple , mountain maple , bigleaf maple , striped maple and the boxelder – a type of maple with different folio . Boxelders have compound leaves ( multiple leaflet on one stem ) , but they diminish off just the same .
Fruit and Nut Trees
The American plum , Allegheny plum , bootleg cherry tree , sweet crabapple , frosted hawthorn and persimmon Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree are deciduous fruit - bearing species in America . Trees that produce nuts and suffer their leave in winter admit the black walnut tree , bitternut hickory , shagbark hickory , pignut hickory , pecan , hazelnut and white walnut Tree . Many of the nut case trees , such as the hickories and walnuts , have chemical compound folio with a large number of narrow booklet attached to a central stem known as a backbone .
Other Species
Other character of trees that overlook their leaves and then develop raw one each year are the horsechestnut , buckeye , sassafras , sweetgum , American great maple , red mulberry tree , tuliptree , slippery elm , beech and eastern hophornbeam . The birches ( paper , yellow , gray , and river ) also lose their leaves . Additionally , cottonwoods , alders and most of the willow are American trees that stand naked in the winter inhuman .
