70 French Tree Names & Words & Video 🌳

21 French Tree Names

Thank you to French immersion teachers Eliane and Suzanne for helping with these French tree name lists.

Let’s start with the names of common French trees.

1. Un charme = hornbeam tree
2. Un hêtre = beech tree
3. Un châtaignier = chestnut tree
4. Un marronnier = horse chestnut tree see my video on how to translate chestnut in French
5. Un marron = horse chestnut/ conker
6. Un pin = pine tree
7. Un érable = maple tree
8. Un chêne = oak tree
9. Un bouleau = birch tree
10. Un frêne = ash tree
11. Un tremble = aspen tree
12. Un laurier = bay tree
13. Un cèdre = cedar tree
14. Un peuplier = poplar tree
15. Un eucalyptus = eucalyptus tree
16. Un érable = maple tree
17. Un tilleul = linden tree
18. Un olivier = olive tree
19. Un séquoia = redwood tree
20. Un épicéa = spruce tree
21. Un saule = willow tree

Here’s a video I made in the woods about chestnuts in French. If you like my “understand French” videos, click on the video tab on this blog – bookmark it, or follow French Today on YouTube!

9 French Tree Words

This tree related vocabulary will prove useful as well.

1. Un gland = acorn
2. La cime de l’arbre = the top of the tree
3. Une branche = branch
4. Un tronc = tree trunk
5. Un feuillage = foliage
6. Une feuille = leaf
7. Un bourgeon = bud
8. Une écorce = bark
9. Un champignon = mushroom
10. À feuilles persistantes = evergreen leaves
11. Une forêt = forest
12. Un bois = wood (usually the small forest)
13. Le bois = wood (usually the material)

17 French Flowering Tree Names

Now let’s study a list of French flowering trees. If you’d like to learn the French flower vocabulary, follow the link!

1. Le mimosa – mimosa tree
2. L’arbre à soie – silk tree
3. Le sorbier – mountain ash tree
4. Le sumac – sumac
5. Le laurier – laurel
6. Le tamaris – salt cedar tree
7. Le cognacier du japon – Japanese quince
8. Le lilac – lilac tree
9. Le lilac de Californie / le céanothe – California lilac
10. Le prunus – plum tree
11. L’ajonc – gorse
12. Le sureau – elder
13. Le magnolia – magnolia tree
14. Les camélia – camelia
15. L’aubépine – hawthorn
16. Le prunellier – blackthorn
17. Le cornouillier – dogwood

Let’s practice this vocabulary with a video I made about the flowering trees in Brittany 🌺!

20 French Fruit Tree Names

To come up with fruit tree names, most of the time you take the name of the fruit in French, remove the “e” and add “ier”. There are a few exceptions… as always in French!

1. Le pêcher – peach tree
2. L’abricotier – apricot tree
3. Le poirier – pear tree
4. Le prunier – plum tree
5. Le pommier – apple tree
6. L’amandier – almond tree
7. le cerisier – cherry tree
8. le noisetier – hazelnut tree
9. le noyer – wall-nut tree
10. le prunier – plum tree
11. l’oranger – orange tree
12. le citronnier – lemon tree
13. le pamplemoussier –
14. le figuier – fig tree
15. le bananier – banana tree
16. le cocotier – coconut tree
17. le manguier – mango tree
18. l’avocatier – avocado tree
19. le grenadier – pomegranate tree
20. le cognacier – quince tree

Would you like to help me make a better list? Please add your suggestion (French and English please) to the comment section below. Merci!