Rhyme-A-Tree

1. Light-colored hardwood used for making furniture (staple).

a. pine

2. Tropical fruit tree bearing oblong fruit (late).

b. birch

3. Drooping branches used in basket weaving (sleeping pillow).

c. gum

4. Grey-barked, hardwood nut tree (leech).

d. fir

5. Resinous, coned, and needled tree (fine).

e. spruce

6. Hardwood sometimes made into punishing sticks (chicory).

f. teak

7. California redwood pine (daboia).

g. banyan

8. Timber from East Indian tree used for shipbuilding (beak).

h. beech

9. Indians made canoes from its bark (lurch).

i. maple

10. Has edible fuzzy-skinned fruit (teach).

j. ming

11. Softwood evergreen with dense foliage (juice).

k. hickory

12. East Indian tree belonging to the mulberry family (canyon).

l. date

13. Scrubby black-barked American oak (slack pack).

m. blackjack

14. The bonsai or dwarfed evergreen (ring).

n. peach

15. Flat-leaf northern pine (spur).

o. weeping willow

16. The eucalyptus tree of Australia (sum).

p. sequoia