70 French Tree Names & Words & Video 🌳

21 French Tree Names

Thank you to French immersion teachers Eliane and Suzanne for helping with these French tree name lists.

Let’s start with the names of common French trees.

1. Un charme = a hornbeam
2. Un hêtre = a beech
3. Un châtaignier = a chestnut tree
4. Un marronnier = a horse chestnut see my video on how to translate chestnut in French
5. Un marron = a chestnut brown –
6. Un pin = a pine
7. Un érable = a maple
8. Un chêne = an oak
9. Un bouleau = a birch
10. Un frêne = ash tree
11. Un tremble = aspen
12. Un laurier = bay tree
13. Un cèdre = cedar tree
14. Un peuplier = polar tree
15. Un eucalyptus = eucalyptus
16. Un érable = maple
17. Un tilleul = linden
18. Un olivier = olive tree
19. Un séquoia = redwood
20. Un épicéa = spruce tree
21. Un saule = willow

9 French Tree Words

This tree related vocabulary will prove useful as well.

1. Un gland = an acorn
2. La cime de l’arbre = the top of the tree
3. Une branche = a branch
4. Un tronc = a trunk
5. Un feuillage = a foliage
6. Une feuille = a leaf
7. Un bourgeon = a bud
8. Une écorce = a bark
9. Un champignon = a mushroom
10. À feuilles persistantes = evergreen
11. Une forêt = forest
12. Un bois = a wood
13. Le bois = wood (the material)

17 French Flowering Tree Names

Now let’s study a list of French flowering trees. If you’d like to learn the French flower vocabulary, follow the link!

1. Le mimosa – mimosa
2. L’arbre à soie – silk tree
3. Le sorbier – mountain ash tree
4. Le sumac – sumac
5. Le laurier – laurel
6. Le tamaris – salt cedar
7. Le cognacier du japon – Japanese quince
8. Le lilac – lilac
9. Le lilac de Californie – California lilac
10. Le prunus – plum tree
11. L’ajonc – gorse
12. Le sureau – elder
13. Le magnolia – magnolia
14. Les camélia – camelia
15. L’aubépine – hawthorn
16. Le prunellier – blackthorn
17. Le cornouillier – dogwood

20 French Fruit Tree Names

To come up with fruit tree names, most of the time you take the name of the fruit in French, remove the “e” and add “ier”. There are a few exceptions… as always in French!

1. Le pêcher – peach tree
2. L’abricotier – apricot tree
3. Le poirier – pear tree
4. Le prunier – plum tree
5. Le pommier – apple tree
6. L’amandier – almond tree
7. le cerisier – cherry tree
8. le noisetier – hazelnut tree
9. le noyer – wall-nut tree
10. le prunier – plum tree
11. l’oranger – orange tree
12. le citronnier – lemon tree
13. le pamplemoussier –
14. le figuier – fig tree
15. le bananier – banana tree
16. le cocotier – coconut tree
17. le manguier – mango tree
18. l’avocatier – avocado tree
19. le grenadier – pomegranate tree
20. le cognacier – quince tree

French Tree Practice Video

Let’s practice this vocabulary with a video I made about the flowering trees in Brittany 🌺!

Would you like to help me make a better list? Please add your suggestion (French and English please) to the comment section below. Merci!