re: What is your favorite tree?

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Crepe Myrtle due to hardiness and color variety. They are cool, unique trees.

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The can be the most beautiful or ugly trees, and it all depends on how they're cared for. I'd wager 90% are not cared for properly. My mother-in-law has one of the most beautiful examples in her yard. The branching pattern is amazing.

Red Maple in the Fall

Banyon trees are a type of ficus. There are varieties native to south Florida. My grandmother had four of them.

My favorites are:

Red Japanese maples - beautiful trees
Tulip Poplars - grow tall, fast, and big
Ponderosa pines - smell great
White oaks
Ginko

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Great way to get neighbors 2 streets away who hate you every time late fall rolls around.

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I'll never understand people who hate leaves. Falling leaves are part of nature's cycle. And big fat sycamore leaves are a lot easier to rake than a bunch of tiny oak leaves. OR, you could just leave the leaves on the ground the way God intended.

Pecan, unless it hangs over a metal roof

1. Bald cypress
2. Cow oak
3. Live oak
4. Sequioa
5. Redwood

Pecans are delicious. Oranges are as well. Apples a close second. I like trees that produce food.

Maple. In areas of the country where they change colors in the fall.

I like the giant Oak trees, hanging with Spanish Moss, in the Deep South..

Black bear is best.