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Copyright 2004 by Michael E. Grost

Jake’s Trees

Here are links to the trees mentioned in the Jacob Black “Impossible Crime” mystery short stories.

	Tree	Scientific Name	Family
A Detective Is Born	Ylang-Ylang	Cananga odorata	Annonaceae
A Detective Is Born	Australian Tea Tree	Leptospermum	Myrtaceae
Murder Makes a Sequel	Canary Island Date Palm	Phoenix dactylifera	Arecaceae
Extra! Extra!	Xylopia	Xylopia buxifolia, Xylopia humblotiana	Annonaceae
A Mystery Shot in One Long Take	Monkey Puzzle	Araucaria araucana	Araucariaceae
Horror at the High School	Pandanus	Pandanus	Pandanaceae
Hell’s Hacks	Rain Tree	Samanea saman	Mimosaceae
Trial By Fire	Coral Bean	Erythrina	Fabaceae
The Hollywood Toy Express	Bamboo	Gigantochloa verticillata	Poaceae
Banning the Blues	Cannonball Tree	Couroupita guianensis	Lecythidaceae
The Big Box	Austrobaileya	Austrobaileya scandens	Austrobaileyaceae
The Big Box	Bougainvillea	Bougainvillea spectabilis	Nyctaginaceae
It Came Out of Nowhere	Ombú	Phytolacca dioica	Phytolaccaceae
It Came Out of Nowhere	Pokeweed	Phytolacca dioica	Phytolaccaceae
The Dream Factory	Mango	Mangifera indica	Anacardiaceae
The Villain who Vanished	Fish Tail Palm	Caryota	Arecaceae
A Long Evening	Teak	Tectona grandis	Verbenaceae
A Long Evening	Catalpa	Catalpa speciosa	Bignoniaceae
The Tree of Life	Cunonia	Cunonia capensis	Cunoniaceae
The Tree of Life	Eastern Arborvitae	Platycladus orientalis	Cupressaceae
The Catbird	Caryocar	Caryocar microcarpum	Caryocaraceae
The Hunt for Fred October	Tamarind	Tamarindus indica	Caesalpiniaceae

Most plant pictures on the web are organized by plant families. The links take you to the family as a whole. From there, you can find the individual tree.

The two links to Annonaceae take you to two different web pages, in two different sites. The two Phytolaccaceae and the two Arecaceae pages are also different.

The scientific names are much less ambiguous than the English ones. They are good for Internet searches.