50 French Tree Names & Words & Video 🌳

10 French Tree Names

Thank you to French immersion teachers Eliane and Suzanne for submitting these lists.

1. Un charme = a hornbeam
2. Un hêtre = a beech
3. Un châtaignier = a chestnut tree
4. Une châtaigne = a chestnut
5. Un marronnier = a horse chestnut
6. Un marron = a chestnut brown
7. Un pin = a pine
8. Un érable = a maple
9. Un chêne = an oak
10. Un bouleau = a birch

9 French Tree Words

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 shell
9. Un champignon = a mushroom

21 French Flowering Tree Names

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

French Tree Practice Video

Now let’s practice this vocabulary with a video I made about the flowering trees in Brittany.

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