# Phylogenetic tree with taxonomic annotation

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/phylogenetic-tree-with-taxonomic-annotation/6093
**Category:** User Support
**Tags:** taxonomy, phylogeny
**Created:** [September 19, 2018, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/phylogenetic-tree-with-taxonomic-annotation/6093 "2018-09-19T13:58:53Z")
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### Author: ![Nicholas\_Bokulich](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/nicholas_bokulich/32/19937_2.png) [@Nicholas\_Bokulich](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Nicholas_Bokulich)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2018, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/phylogenetic-tree-with-taxonomic-annotation/6093/2 "2018-09-19T16:31:57Z")

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Hi @arwqiime,

> [@arwqiime](#):
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> Is it possible to use these squences to create phylogenetic trees

Since the representative OTU sequences produced by closed-ref OTU clustering are the closest reference sequences (with the SILVA ref seq ID), I believe you can actually use one of the pre-aligned trees that come in the SILVA release. These will be based on full 16S alignment and other curation may be applied... but in any case it would save you time. You will need to filter the tree to only contain observed sequences, of course, if you are planning to view this tree.

> [@arwqiime](#):
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> display the tip labels in the trees by any of the taxonomic levels available via the corresponding taxonomy table of the reference sequences?

That is not possible in QIIME 2 — but follow [this thread](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/how-to-build-a-tree-with-tips-collapsed-based-on-the-taxonomic-classification/2576) to see a duplicate question and solution.

I hope that helps!

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