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3 and 4 Letter Trees

Name all the commonly known trees whose names are 3 or 4 letters long.
This quiz is based on common English - not scientific taxonomy!
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First submittedSeptember 30, 2013
Times taken14,832
Average score46.2%
Rating4.27
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Tree
Ash
Elm
Fig
Fir
Tree
Gum
Lime
Oak
Tree
Palm
Pear
Pine
Tree
Plum
Teak
Yew
cpgatbyu
+2
Level 85
Oct 2, 2013
How about "teak"?
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Oct 3, 2013
Nice one. Added it!
buck1017
+6
Level 77
Oct 16, 2013
How about NOT teak...then i would have gotten a perfect score!
c3yellowcat
+1
Level 14
Mar 10, 2018
Actually, the one I missed was lime.
OneMoreDown
+2
Level 49
Dec 1, 2013
Cork?
robbiex
+4
Level 28
Oct 4, 2015
Cork trees are oak trees!
Sifhraven
+4
Level 67
Feb 16, 2020
Interesting, I wasn't aware of that :) and Cork, Ireland has no relation with corktrees (Not sure but I think I used to assume that when I was young) it comes from a word meaning marsh
mikeb
+4
Level 66
Dec 1, 2013
How about Xmas?
PopcornLord
+1
Level 55
Jun 16, 2020
If only...
mikeb
+2
Level 66
Dec 1, 2013
If the trees are "commonly known", what's the point of a quiz? (Sorry, I'm channeling George Carlin right now)
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Dec 1, 2013
to check if you're more or less ignorant than the average person about trees.
sillie
+1
Level 77
May 31, 2014
What's the point of any quiz? Should you be here if you can't answer the question? ;)
jd2001wizard
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Level 65
May 8, 2017
Haha, I like your comment. Not sure how "commonly known" a teak and yew tree are?
GlassMonkeyCode
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Level 67
Feb 3, 2024
Very well known. Teak grows natively is SE Asia and is illegally felled to make furniture. Yew is found in Europe and is abundant.
theborderreiver
+3
Level 84
Dec 1, 2013
what about Bay or Hop?
robbiex
+2
Level 28
Oct 4, 2015
Yeah! I didn't think of bay, but definitely a good answer!
JackBeNimble
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Level 81
May 3, 2021
I tried bay too.
PorcNBeanz
+1
Level 57
Dec 2, 2013
According to the quiz results, only about 5 trees are "commonly known" (50% or above). The rest should be removed or the quiz qualifier of "commonly known" should be changed.
communisteggplant
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Level 73
Mar 6, 2014
Or...they are easy to get if you have a more obvious clue, but thinking them up alphabetically is difficult (see the 3-letter body parts quiz...)
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Feb 16, 2020
And the 3 letter animals
JonOfKent
+1
Level 56
Dec 11, 2020
Or, to be fair, some of us were stupid enough not to read the title properly and only tried to think of three-letter trees.......
GlassMonkeyCode
+1
Level 67
Feb 3, 2024
I missed Oak.
NekroNeko
+4
Level 26
Dec 3, 2013
The Ents wont be happy for not including them :P
ItzIngenious
+1
Level 60
Aug 25, 2021
Lol
beekash
+1
Level 58
Dec 3, 2013
I would suggest cork and date.
sillie
+5
Level 77
Dec 30, 2014
Date is a type of palm. Cork trees are a type of oaks, iirc.
emwcee
+1
Level 45
Jun 10, 2014
Great quiz! I got them all, but then I'm kind of a tree geek.
Sifhraven
+2
Level 67
Feb 16, 2020
Any chance you are also a tea greek? Or tee greek? A fervent golfer or tea enthusiast of Greek heritage.
TenThousand
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Level 76
Jun 11, 2014
Tea tree
ander217
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Level 75
Mar 16, 2015
I would never have thought of gum. Around here we only call them sweetgums.
Freestatebear
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Level 85
Jul 17, 2015
In addition to sweet gum (Liquidambar styraciflua) there's also the black gum, aka tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica), and the water gum (Nyssa aquatica), all native to the eastern US. There's an unrelated tree, also called water gum, that's native to Australia.
Malbaby
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Level 71
Dec 25, 2016
A gum tree in Australia is a Eucalypt, and there are hundreds of different species including the worlds tallest flowering plant, Eucalyptus regnans (known as the mountain Ash) which are still growing at over 300ft in Tasmania the tallest of which is 327ft and growing. The tallest tree ever measured was not a Sequoia sempervirens, but a type of eucalypt (Eucalyptus), an Australian hardwood tree. In 1872 forester William Ferguson spotted an extremely tall mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) near the Watts River, Victoria, Australia. Purportedly it was 132.6 m (435 feet) tall. Around that time, multiple specimens of 140 m (459ft.) tall were reported in Victoria, mainland Australia.
KingOfBatman
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Level 54
Jan 16, 2016
What about the Boab tree thats native to Australia?
blizzrd33
+4
Level 79
Apr 10, 2019
Apparently quizzes have to cater primarily for what is "commonly known" in the northern hemisphere. Disappointing.
jajaco2017
+1
Level 57
Mar 27, 2017
Birch ?
Zefyrinus
+3
Level 71
Aug 19, 2017
5 letters.
pkerr116
+2
Level 73
May 11, 2017
I thought palms were technically plants, not trees. I haven't checked this before posting, but does anyone else here think the same?
Zefyrinus
+1
Level 71
Aug 19, 2017
No, why wouldn't palm trees be trees? And trees are plants too.
Olober
+2
Level 57
Apr 26, 2019
Not all palm trees are trees- what people commonly refer to collectively as "palm trees" may be a climber, shrub, or tree.

And yes, all trees are plants, but not all plants are necessarily trees.

TheKindCowboy
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Level 55
Nov 21, 2022
If you look at a picture of a palm tree stump, they lack the characteristic rings that trees have. In the end, it's all up to you how you define what a tree, because a lot of people have different definitions
Nickelz
+1
Level 65
Feb 14, 2023
Yes, I thought strawberries were fruits, not food.
OfficerDibble
+2
Level 80
Dec 9, 2017
I'd add bay and May (hawthorn, but very commonly known as May tree where I'm from)
Rob27587
+1
Level 71
Mar 14, 2018
How about tea?
Djilas
+2
Level 82
Jun 27, 2018
How about "tree"?
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 89
Jul 7, 2018
Ipé or occasionally epay is a jungle wood from a tree of the same name used in decking and marine applications, like teak, jujube (not jojobo) and mahogany. It commonly has thin grains of oily yellow through its darker brown, which cause skin rashes and lung irritation when cut and the dust goes in the air.
Keithg
+2
Level 50
Feb 6, 2019
Before YouTube there was YewTree. Millions of people would watch its leaves grow and vote on whether or not they liked it.
blizzrd33
+2
Level 79
Apr 10, 2019
Why is there no tea tree in this quiz? Quizzes don't always have to be US-centric...
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Feb 16, 2020
10/13 missed gum, palm and teak :) pretty proud since English is not my native language and this isnt really stuff that comes up in books and movies. (Usually... I am aware of the movie with elm in the title (perhaps the only reason I know it) and oak trees I feel do quite regular make an appearance in literature.
JonOfKent
+2
Level 56
Dec 11, 2020
Box tree perhaps? Very common (usually for hedging). In fact one of the central scenes in "Emma" takes place on a hill named for its box trees.
FolgoreCZ
+1
Level 60
Aug 14, 2021
How about tea tree? Unless you consider "narrow-leaed paperbark" to be the more common English name.
Andrew169
+1
Level 73
Mar 16, 2023
I scored 10/13. Predictably, I missed the three hardest answers. Thanks for the quiz!
tallpotatoperson
+2
Level 67
Feb 1, 2024
It's a difficult quiz when you keep thinking of common trees in New Zealand... I kept wanting Rimu and Tawa to be accepted
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