Hollywood Park CommuniTree Bike Ride 3. 2212 22nd Avenue 6. 4713 Joaquin Way

Magnolia × soulangeana, Acer rubrum, Red Saucer Magnolia Family: Plant Family: Magnoliaceae (Soapberry family) (Magnolia family) Native Habitat: Eastern Native Habitat: France North America, usually swamps and uplands, also can grow on dry hillsides Saucer Magnolia is a popular flowering accent , usually as a multi-trunk or low-branching The Red Maple is fast growing and a heavy water specimen for gardens or lawns. It requires loose, user. It has red twigs, buds, and red winged 1. 4610 Custis Avenue fertile soil and moderate moisture, where it in the spring. The fall color may vary from yellow best in full sun. Many named varieties to red except on named , like “Red Acer truncatum, are available with different colors. Sunset” and “October Glory”. It is very popular Shantung Maple as a street tree. Plant Family: Sapindaceae 4. 2153 22nd Avenue (Soapberry family) Other uses: attracts birds; wetland plant; sap Native Habitat: Arbutus unedo, contains sugar (yielding about half the quantity oak forests in Strawberry Tree obtained from the sugar maple). Plant Family: Ericaceae This fast-growing tree has shiny light green foliage (Heather Family) Cercis Canadensis, in summer, and yellow flower clusters in the early Native Habitat: Southern Eastern Redbud spring. It is very hardy and adaptable. Europe, Ireland, scrub and Plant Family: Fabaceae, rocky hillsides (Pea Family) 2. 2251 22nd Street Native Habitat: Eastern Strawberry Tree is an attractive evergreen shade North America - rich Acer buergerianum, tree, with shiny dark green color, red bark, and woods, ravines and Trident Maple multi-trunk branching habit. The bell-shaped borders of streams - It Plant Family: Sapindaceae flowers and red add to its visual interest in often forms a distinct (Soapberry family) winter and early spring. Once established, it is a understory in woodlands Native Habitat: very durable tree. China and Japan Eastern Redbud is a commonly used single or Other uses: edible ; the , bark and root multi-trunk tree, effective as a flowering or Trident Maple has are astringent and diuretic; high in tannins foliage accent. It blooms best in full sun, where interesting flaky bark and 3-pointed leaves. it receives moderate moisture. Prone to red It tolerates most soils with light to moderate 5. 4701 Joaquin Way, Leonardo DaVinci School humped caterpillar and tent caterpillar attacks. moisture, grows quickly, and is quite Established tree removed and replaced with dependable once established. Trident , Japanese Maple, and Zelkovas. + additional Shantung Maple

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8. Shielah Way Nyssa sylvatica, Tupelo Acer palmatum, Platanus racemosa, Plant Family: Nyssaceae Japanese Maple CA Sycamore (Sourgum Family) Plant Family: Sapindaceae Plant Family: Platanaceae Native Habitat: Eastern (Soapberry family) (Plane tree family) North America, low acid Native Habitat: Japan and Native Habitat: California! woods, swamps, shores in , woods and thickets in Often interbreeds with imperfectly drained soils lowlands and mountains Platanus orientalis, which is native to S.E. Europe The Tupelo is a deciduous tree with reliably bright Japanese Maple is a commonly used accent tree and W. Asia fall color. It tolerates poor drainage and low soil in lawns or moderately moist settings, beneath an oxygen found in compacted urban soil. They over-story of taller shade . It prefers a shady A very fast growing native riparian tree. It prefer alkaline soils and in late Spring. spot with moist, well-drained loam and plenty of tolerates extreme heat and wind, drought, added humus. atmospheric pollution, and compacted soils. Other uses: Attracts birds and butterflies!

8. 4952 Virginia Way 10. 2235 Hooke Way Return to Two Rivers Cider Company Pistacia chinensis, Quercus lobata Chinese Pistache Heritage Plant Family: Anacardiaceae Valley Oak (Cashew family) Plant Family: Native Habitat: Forests on Fagaceae stone hills in western China (Beech Family) Native Habitat: A beautiful street tree with a wide canopy, fall Fertile lowlands color, and fragrant leaves. Grows best with good in deep rich soils in the valleys of W. California drainage. Trees are male or female – the females between the Sierra Nevada and the coast. have colorful berries, which birds love. This majestic tree is the largest oak in North Tree House on the Corner of Virginia & Joaquin America. Trunk and limbs of mature trees are picturesquely twisted with long, drooping outer branches. Low water user and very adaptable.

Other uses: acorns lower in tannins then other species – was a staple food for several native North American tribes – can be dried and used in stews or breads (tannins leached out by All of these trees and more are available through the thoroughly rinsing or boiling the in water). Sacramento Tree Foundation’s free shade tree program. Check out more and sign up, here: www.sactree.com/shadetrees