Trees Gallery - Scone Palace page 1

Araucaria araucana araucaria - after a region of Chile; araucana - the native tribe who used the tree's seeds for food.

Monkey puzzle

A.k.a. monkey tail tree, pewen, pehuen pine or piñonero, an evergreen tree growing to 30–40 m, native to C and S Chile and W Argentina. It is on the IUCN list as endangered in its native region due to logging, forest fires, and grazing. It is usually dioecious male and female cones on separate trees . The male (pollen) cones are oblong and cucumber-shaped. It is wind pollinated. The bark can be up to 15 cm thick, possibly an adaptation to resist wildfires.

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Betula pendula betula - birch, possibly from betu, meaning tar or bitumen, which can be extracted from the tree, pendula - hanging down (L.); Youngii - after English nurseryman Maurice Young who found a chance seedling in 1874 Youngii

Young's weeping birch

I am making a guess that this is b. pendula Youngii, a small deciduous tree forming a dome-shaped crown often wider than high, of arching branches weeping to the ground, with ovate leaves turning yellow in autumn.

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Castanea sativa castanea - after the town of Castanum in Thessaly, where it grew in abundance; sativa - Latin for 'cultivated' or 'sown'.

Sweet chestnut

A.k.a. Spanish chestnut or European chestnut, a tree native to S Europe and Asia Minor, growing to 25m with a trunk often 2 m or more in diameter. The bark often has a net-shaped (retiform) pattern with deep furrows or fissures running spirally in both directions up the trunk. The flowers of both sexes are borne in 10–20 cm long, upright catkins, the male flowers in the upper part and female flowers in the lower part. The female flowers eventually form a spiky sheath that deters predators from the seed. It is naturally self incompatible meaning that the plant cannot pollinate itself, making cross-pollination necessary. . Trees can live to an age of 500 to 600 years, even 1,000 years or more.

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Cedrus deodara cedrus - from Greek kedros, cedar;deodara - from Sanskrit devadāru, which translates to 'wood of the gods'.

Deodar cedar

A.k.a. Himalayan cedar, a large evergreen coniferous tree reaching 50 m, with a trunk up to 3 m in diameter. The female cones are barrel-shaped, 7–13 cm long, and disintegrate when mature (in 12 months) to release the winged seeds. The male cones are 4–6 cm long, and shed their pollen in autumn.

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Cedrus libani - cedrus - from Greek kedros, cedar; libani - from Lebanon.

Cedar of Lebanon

A native to the mountains of the E Mediterranean basin, a large evergreen conifer (growing up to 40 m), the national emblem of Lebanon. The trunks of old, open-grown trees often fork into several large, erect branches. The rough and scaly bark is dark grey to blackish brown, and is run through by deep, horizontal fissures that peel in small chips. It grows rapidly until the age of 45 to 50 years, then growth becomes extremely slow after the age of 70.

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Corylus corylus - from Greek korylos 'helmet', referring to the nut husk's shape; avellana - from the Italian city Avella, where hazelnuts were cultivated; contorta - twisted avellana contorta

Corkscrew hazel

A large deciduous shrub growing to about 6m tall, with strongly twisted branches bearing broadly heart-shaped, slightly twisted and contorted, mid-green toothed leaves, turning yellow in autumn, and pendent yellow male catkins in late winter and early spring followed by brownish fruits (hazelnuts) in late summer.

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Chamaecyparis nootkatensis: chamae - Greek 'dwarf' and kuparissos - cypress, referring to the dwarf cypress-like appearance; nootkatensis - after Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island, where the tree was discovered.

Nootka cypress

A.k.a. Nootka cedar, Alaska cedar, Yellow cypress, Callitropsis nootkatensis, Cupressus nootkatensis and Xanthocyparis nootkatensis. An evergreen conifer growing to 40 m. The bark is thin, smooth and purplish when young, turning flaky and grey with age. The branches are commonly pendulous, with foliage in flat sprays and dark green scale-leaves. The cones mature biannually. It can have an exceptional lifespan - one specimen in British Columbia was found to be 1,834 years old - some specimens may be over 3,000 years old. It is one of the parents of the hybrid Leyland cypress the other parent is Monterey cypress (Hesperocyparis macrocarpa) .

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