Taxonomy

I am a moron when it comes to biology.
I wish I had it in my head to be able to say "Look at the beautiful light illuminating the perfect green through those maple leaves over the cemetery" or something like that.
Instead, the only trees I know with any conclusiveness are pines, apple trees, poplars and weeping willows.
And apple trees really only when they have apples on them and poplars sometimes end up being another poplar-looking kind of tree and I don't see that many weeping willows and I can't even tell the difference between different kinds of pines.
So I end up saying things like "hey look at that pretty tree" or " wow, good looking tree" or "what kind of tree do you want for Christmas? A Douglas Fir or one of those other kinds?"
I think I would sound a lot more like John Steinbeck if I could say something like "look at the tardy Spring blossoms on that Red Billowed Northern Oak (latin name Fuerestus Billustus.)!"
And really, sounding like John Steinbeck is probably pretty much tops in my book.
Well, almost tops.