Trees gallery - Godshill Model Village - page 3

Pittosporum tenuifolium Silver Queen

Kohuhu

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Prunus cerasifera Prunus - Latin name for the plum and cherry tree. cerasifera - from Latin cerasus meaning cherry and fero meaning to bear; atropurpurea - from Latin ater meaning dark and purpureusmeaning purple, describing the deep, rich leaf colour; pissardii - after Monsieur Pissard, the French head gardener to the Shah of Persia. atropurpurea pissardii

Cherry plum Pissardii

A deciduous tree or large shrub (unless pruned at Godshill!). It has rich burgundy foliage, bursts with delicate pale-pink spring blossoms and produces small, edible, plum-like fruit.

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Quercus robur quercus - Latin name for oak, derived from the Proto-Indo-European root kwerkwu; robur - Latin for robust or strong, referencing the tree's sturdiness.

English oak

A native of mixed woodland areas from the British Isles to the Caucasus, and has been widely planted in North America since the 1600s. It is normally a large, majestic, deciduous tree of the white oak group that typically grows in cultivation to 30 m with a broad-spreading, rounded crown. Here it is kept to a small scale with frequent clipping. Insignificant monoecious separate male and female catkins appear on the same tree yellow-green flowers appear in spring as the leaves emerge. Fruits are oval acorns 2.5 cm long, on long stalks (peduncles).

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Rhododendron Encore autumn sunburst

Azalea

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Sciadopitys Verticillata

Umbrella pine

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Taxus baccata

Yew

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Thuja occidentalis

Arborvitae

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Toona sinensis flamingo Toona - from toon, the local Bengali and Hindi name for the tree in India; sinensis - from Latin meaning from China; Flamingo - the cultivar name, chosen because of the young spring leaves bright salmon-pink colour.

Chinese cedar

A fast-growing deciduous tree native to E and SE Asia, with a spectacular spring display, where fresh, pinnate leaves emerge in a vivid salmon-pink, gradually softening to creamy-yellow and then maturing to a lush, glossy green by early summer. It has a narrow, upright, columnar shape when young, which spreads into an elegant, broad canopy as it matures. In midsummer it produces large, drooping panicles of small, fragrant, greenish-white flowers that are highly attractive to pollinators. The bark on young trees is smooth and brown, peeling into shaggy strips on older specimens. All parts of the plant are aromatic, often giving off an onion or garlic scent when crushed.

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Ulmus procera

Elm

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Wollemia nobilis Wollemia from an Australian Aboriginal language, meaning keep your eyes open; nobilis) - chosen to convey the majestic stature of the tree, while alsobeing after David Noble, the field officer who stumbled upon the tree.

Wollemi pine

An ancient, critically endangered conifer, a living fossil an extant taxon that cosmetically resembles related species known only from the fossil record. To be considered a living fossil, the fossil species must be old relative to the time of origin of the extant clade. thought to be extinct until a small population was discovered in an Australian canyon in 1994. It is not a true pine. It can grow up to 40 m in the wild. They readily sprout new stems from the base, resulting in multi-trunked trees or clumps. It is monoecious both male and female cones grow on the same tree . Female cones are large and spherical, while male cones are long, narrow, and catkin-like.

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