Possible Clues:

• Tree many be deal? Right?
• Tree turning crimson lake by start of autumn
• Wood used in bridge making
• Tree (cherry) with leaf oddly backward
• Tree's fewer leaves, perhaps, losing top
• That gets a ruddy return to the French in the shrubbery
• Black ___ (winterberry plant)
• Tree growing in damp ground
• Shrub or tree with cone-like fruits
• Type of tree