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French Tree Names

French Tree Names

This page offers names of over 85 French tree names with common trees including le chêne (oak), le pin (pine), l’érable (maple) and le palmier (palm). Fruit trees are often the name of the fruit combined with the letters -ier. For example le pommier (apple tree).

Image: Maple Tree
  • almond un amandier
  • apple un pommier
  • apricot un abricotier
  • ash un frêne
  • aspen un tremble
  • banyan un banian
  • baobob un baobab
  • bay un laurier
  • birch un bouleau
  • bodhi un bodhi
  • bristlecone pine un pin aristé
  • buckeye un marronnier, un pavier
  • butternut un noyer cendré
  • catalpa un catalpa
  • cedar un cèdre
  • cherry un cerisier
  • chestnut un marronnier, châtaignier
  • coconut palm un cocotier
  • cottonwood un peuplier d’Amérique
  • crape myrtle un lagerstrœmia
  • cypress un cyprès
  • date palm un dattier, un palmier-dattier
  • dogwood un cornouiller
  • Douglas fir un sapin de Douglas, un pin d’Oregon
  • elderberry un sureau
  • elm un orme
  • eucalyptus un eucalyptus
  • fig un figuier
  • filbert fir un avelinier
  • flame tree un flamboyant
  • grapefruit un pamplemoussier
  • gum un gommier
  • hackberry un micocoulier
  • haw une aubépine
  • hawthorn une aubépine
  • hickory un caryer, un pacanier
  • honeylocust un févier épineux
  • ironwood un ostryer de Virginie, un bois de fer
  • jack pine un pin gris
  • Japanese maple un érable japonais
  • juniper un genévrier
  • larch un mélèze
  • linden un tilleul
  • locust un faux acacia, un robinier
  • loquat un néflier du Japon, un bibacier
  • magnolia un magnolia
  • mahogany un acajou
  • maple un érable
  • mangrove palétuvier
  • mountainash un sorbier
  • Norway maple un érable norvégien
  • oak un chêne
  • olive un olivier
  • orange un orangier
  • palm un palmier
  • palmetto un palmier nain, un chou palmiste
  • pawpaw un papayer
  • peach un pêcher
  • pear un poirier
  • pecan un pacanier
  • pine un pin
  • piñon pine un pin pignon, un pin parasol
  • plum un prunier
  • poplar un peuplier
  • quince un cognassier
  • redwood un séquoia
  • rubber tree un arbre à caoutchouc
  • spruce un épicéa, une épinette
  • sugar maple un érable à sucre
  • sweetgum un copalme d’Amérique, un liquidambar
  • sycamore une platane d’Amérique, une platane d’Occident
  • teak un tek, un teck
  • tulip-tree un tulipier de Virginie
  • tupelo un tupélo
  • walnut un noyer
  • white ash un frêne blanc
  • white oak un chêne blanc
  • willow un saule
  • yew un ir

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