Trees of The Battery Visitor Guide

Trees of The Battery
As you move through the park, use this guide to identify some of the prominent tree species
growing here. Many of the trees can be found in multiple places, but we’ve marked one location for
each on the map below, using the initials of each species’ scientific name. As you locate and read
about each tree, you can check it off in the box provided. Please remember to follow all social
distancing guidelines while at The Battery. We hope you enjoy your visit!
Ca Cedrus atlantica Cf Cornus florida

‘Glauca’ Flowering
Atlas Cedar Dogwood
The Atlas Cedar is an This showy tree flowers in early

evergreen tree native to the spring before the leaves appear.
mountainous regions of In fact, the most striking part of
Morocco and Algeria. The the blooms are the large bracts
cultivar ‘Glauca’ gets its name that surround a cluster of many
from the word glaucous, tiny flowers. The berries ripen
describing the bluish-gray in late summer and are an
color of its foliage. important food source for many
species of birds.
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Gb Ginkgo biloba Gd Gymnocladus
Maidenhair Tree dioicus
Kentucky Coffee
Tree
Native to southeast China,
the Ginkgo tree is sometimes Each leaf of this tree is
known as a “living fossil” since compound, made up of 6 to
it has been found in fossils 14 leaflets. The seeds,
dating back as many as 270 contained in large seedpods,
million years. Only the female were once used as a coffee
trees produce fruit and seeds, substitute when roasted, but
which have culinary and the raw seeds are
medicinal uses in some poisonous.
cultures.
Liquidambar Liriodendron
Ls Lt
styraciflua tulipifera
Sweetgum Tuliptree
The Tuliptree is one of the

The wood of the Sweetgum tallest eastern hardwoods,
tree is important for the reaching heights of 80 to 120
timber industry, used for feet. It is a major source of
all manner of furniture. The commercial timber, with wood
name Sweetgum comes used for furniture, musical
from the gummy solid inside instruments, and paper pulp.
the bark, which historically The large flowers provide ample
was used for chewing gum. nectar to many insect
pollinators.
Mg Metasequoia Pa Platanus acerifolia

glyptostroboides London
Dawn Redwood Planetree
The Dawn Redwood is a These trees are known for their

coniferous tree, meaning that it distinctive mottled bark
creates cones rather than pattern, similar to the bark of a
flowers to produce seeds. While Sycamore. In fact, the London
most conifers are evergreen, the Planetree is a hybrid of the
Dawn Redwood is in fact a Sycamore and Platanus
deciduous tree, shedding its orientalis. It was likely first
leaves every fall. developed during the 17th
century.
Pi Prunus x incamp Qb Quercus bicolor
‘Okame’ Swamp White
Okame Cherry Oak
“Bicolor” in this tree’s scientific

Another hybrid species, the name refers to its leaves, which
Okame Cherry was bred to are green above with lighter
provide beautiful foliage, while undersides. Like all oaks, the
maintaining a tolerance for cold Swamp White Oak produces
weather. It is one of the first acorns, which squirrels and jays
cherry trees to bloom in early eat or bury for storage. Thanks
spring. Look for the to those seed predators, the oak
horizontal ridges on the bark, is able to disperse its acorns
called lenticels! farther from the parent tree.
Qpa Quercus palustris Qph Quercus phellos

Pin Oak Willow Oak
The Pin Oak’s name refers Though the leaves of this

not to the bristle tips on the tree appear similar to those
lobes of the leaves, but of willows, its acorns make it
rather to the side twigs, or recognizable as an oak. The
spurs, that form along its Willow Oak begins producing
branches. The indigenous acorns once it is about 15
Lenape people of this area years old, and many types of
used the trunks of these birds and mammals
trees and other oak species depend on the acorns as a
for making canoes. food source.
Sj Styphnolobium Ua Ulmus americana

japonicum American Elm
Japanese
Pagoda Tree
This tree is native to areas of
China and Korea, rather than The American Elm tree was
Japan. The common name historically more abundant
reflects the early cultivation of across the eastern half of the
these trees in Japan near country, but Dutch elm disease,
Buddhist temples. Only large caused by a fungus and spread
trees over 30 years old produce between trees by the elm bark
the aromatic white flowers that beetle, killed more than 75% of
resemble those of the tree’s this tree’s North American
relatives in the legume family: population in the 20th century.
peas and beans.

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Ca Cedrus atlantica Cf Cornus florida

The Atlas Cedar is an This showy tree flowers in early

Check out our other visitor guides

The Tuliptree is one of the

Mg Metasequoia Pa Platanus acerifolia

The Dawn Redwood is a These trees are known for their

“Bicolor” in this tree’s scientific

Qpa Quercus palustris Qph Quercus phellos

The Pin Oak’s name refers Though the leaves of this

Sj Styphnolobium Ua Ulmus americana

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