Trees gallery - Godshill Model Village - page 2

Fagus sylvatica Fagus - Latin for beech; sylvatica - from Latin silvanus, of the forest; Purple Fountain - the cultivar name referring to the colour and shape of the variety

Weeping purple beech

nother variety of the common European beech, though its key feature - purple leaves - is not visible in winter. The variety grows in a fastigiate (columnar) way, with weeping branches tumbling down. Relatively small, reaching 10 metres. The variety was introduced to the UK in 1975 as a seedling from a tree in Holland.

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Fagus sylvatica purpurea

Copper beech

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Ginkgo biloba Ginkgo (from yin xing or ginkyo) means silver apricot, referencing the fleshy, sometimes foul-smelling, seed coating; biloba - Latin for two-lobed, describing the distinctive fan-shaped leaves that are split into two distinct lobes.

Maidenhair tree due to its leaf resemblance to maidenhair ferns

A long-lived dioecious tree with unique fan-shaped leaves, capable of clonal reproduction, and known for its striking yellow autumn foliage. Specimens have been measured in excess of 1,600 years, and the largest living trees are estimated to exceed 3,500 years. Ginkgos are large trees, normally reaching a height of 20–35 m. Ginkgo biloba is dioeciouswith separate sexes, some trees being female and others being male. , with male plants producing small pollen cones with sporophylls a leaf or leaf-like structure that bears spores, which are reproductive cells . Female plants do not produce cones. Two ovules are formed at the end of a stalk, and after wind pollination, one or both develop into fruit-like structures containing seeds. The outer layer of the fruit (the sarcotesta the soft, fleshy outer layer of a seed coat, found in plants like pomegranates and cycads. Often brightly coloured or foul-smelling, to attract animals for seed dispersal ) is attractive in appearance, but contains butyric acid and smells foul like rancid butter or vomit when fallen. As a consequence, most ginkgos in cultivation are male clones.

This one is growing at full size, in fact quite large for a ginkgo.

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Juniperus Pfitzeriana ?

Pfitzer juniper

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Juniper recurva juniper is the Latin name for the genus; recurva meaning 'curved backward', relating to its branches; 'coxii', after E. H. M. Cox (1893-1977), who introduced it to cultivation. coxii

Himalayan juniper

A.k.a. drooping juniper, normally a large shrub or tree reaching 6 - 20 m, with a trunk up to 2 m in diameter and a broadly conical to rounded or irregular crown. The cones are berry-like, globose, glossy blue-black, and contain one seed. Male cones are 3 - 4 mm long, and shed their pollen in early spring. It is largely monoecious with pollen and seed cones produced on the same plants.

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Ligistrum ovalifolium aureum ?

Golden privet

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Malus (sp. ?)

Crab apple

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Olearia ?

Olearia ?

Daisy bush

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Picea abies nidiformis ?

Bird's nest spruce

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Picea abies pendula

Weeping Norway Spruce

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