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Trees for Seattle, a program of the City of Seattle, is dedicated to growing and maintaining healthy, awe- inspiring in Seattle. Trees build strong communities by:

- Making our streets friendlier places to walk and bike - Soaking up rainwater to keep our streams, lakes, and Puget Sound clean - Calming traffic, helping to avoid accidents - Cleaning our air, making it easier to breathe - And much more!

Seattle’s urban depends on you! 2/3 of Seattle’s trees are planted around homes and maintained by residents. Without those trees, Seattle would be a sad place. Working together, we can have an urban forest that is healthy and growing.

You can get involved in many ways:

Attend a Tree Walk: We host free monthly tours of the unique and beautiful trees in neighborhoods across Seattle. Self-guided versions are also available on our website.

Volunteer: Our volunteers lead Tree Walks with friends and neighbors and participate in fun events like Tree Stewardship work parties to help keep trees healthy and thriving. You can commit for an hour or a lifetime. Everyone is welcome.

Plant a Tree: Our Trees for Neighborhoods project supports Seattle residents in planting trees around their homes by providing support, free trees, and workshops.

For more information on our work and how you can get involved:

Visit: www.Seattle.gov/trees Call: 206-615-1668 Email: [email protected] Follow Trees for Seattle on Facebook

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First Hill Tree Walk

Starts at 9th and University Pavement Park Tree Number & Tree Descriptions Photos Common name Notes Botanical name Address These trees can become 1. Sweetgum quite large, with their star Liquidambar shaped leaves and round syraciflua poky seeds they are a city favorite. Its scientific name is derived from the Latin NW corner of 'liquid' and Arabic for University St. 'amber'. They are native to and Terry Ave. eastern North America and are also called American storax. Storax may fight some bacteria and is taken for cancer, coughs, diarrhea, epilepsy, parasitic infections

and sore throats. Their shapes are reminiscent 2. Alaska/ of what Dr. Seuss would Yellow Cedar paint for a tree or maybe a Xanthocyparis witch tree to some. It has the nootkatensis strongest of the cedars and has been used to make NW corner of boats. It is one of the slowest University St. growth rates and have up to and Terry Ave. 60 growth rings per inch! It is native to the coastal regions of NW North America. If you expose the inner bark and it is yellow and smells like raw potatoes you know it's a yellow cedar. It is the oldest tree in our region, it can live up to 1500 years old!!

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This is a wonderful tree for 3. European cities as it has a bell shape. It Hornbeam also likes to grow in bunches Carpinus betulus or rows, as seen here. Its leaves will turn a nice yellow NE corner of in fall and its seeds are called University St. catkins. 'Carpinus' is Latin for and Terry Ave. hornbeam and 'betulus' for . Hornbeam comes from 'horn' for hard and 'beam' old English tree. This tree is native to 4. Chinese northeast Asia and has over Juniper a 100 cultivars since it's very Juniperus popular in gardens and chinensis parks. It has two kinds of 'broadway' needles and berry-like cones. Gin get its flavor from University Street Juniper berries. This on north side by 'broadway' variety is called the alley that because it looks like the between Terry tree is going hurrah! (with its and Boren branches up in the air=-) Avenue Also called Kobushi 5. Kobus magnolia, it is native to magnolia . It has a teardrop Magnolia kobus shaped leave and its older bark is greyish-brown. It NW corner of blooms early in Spring and is University St. related to the star magnolia. and Boren Ave. There are about 210 magnolia species and many more varieties, which are named after the French botanist Pierre Magnol. Also called a 'Swamp maple' 6. Red maple this tree loves to grow by Acer rubrum rivers and swampy area =-)It is native to North America and is recognized by the U.S. SE corner of Forest service recognizes it University St. as the most common tree in and Boren Ave. North America!! It has red flowers, red fruit, reddish stems and twigs, red buds and in the fall red leaves ;-)

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Native to our Pacific NW, this 7. Big leaf maple maple has the biggest leaves Acer of any other maple and also macrophyllum the longest flower raceme. It also carries the most moss Universtiy Street than any other plant in our East of Red leaf region, which can lead to maple 'canopy roots' from other plants growing on the accumulated soil. It can have so much moss its bark is not even visible. It is also called the paddle tree by the First Nations. The leaves of this tree are 8. Maple those found on the Canadian Acer saccharum flag and currency. The leaves have five lobes and five University Street distinct veins. Its trunk is next to Big leaf greyish. Like all maples it maple produces winged seeds/ helicopter seeds aka samaras which fly away to create little maples. Thanks to this wonderful tree we get maple syrup. In autumn its leaves can turn yellow, orange, red and more. These large trees are native 9. London plane to Europe. They have a Platanus x round poky seed, but not as acerifolia poky as the sweetgum. 'Acerifolia' means maple SW corner of species because of the University St. similar leaves and the 'x' in and Minor Ave. the Latin name means it is a hybrid. It is closely related to the American sycamore tree. If you look at the bark it has a camouflage pattern of grayish-brown and whitish flaky patches. Just remember sycamores have round fruit clusters and maples have 'samaras' or helicopter like seeds.

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Yellowwood have a distinct 10. Yellowwood yellow wood under its bark. Cladrastis It produces a beautiful white kentukea and/or pinkish flower that hangs in racemes and is Throughout First smells wonderful. This tree is Hill Park also part of the Fabaceae family or legumes. It is native to SE North America. It also has brittle branches as its Greek name says 'klados' and 'thraustos'. In D.C. if you plant one of these trees in your backyard you can get a $100 rebate. This tree is native to Europe 11. European and Asia. It was introduced White Birch to the USA and in some places it is thought of as invasive. Unfortunately, Southside of there is an aphid attacking First Hill Park these trees and within 15 years possibly most will be gone in the USA. In Scandinavian countries birch wood is used for and in its leaves for tea. Birch is used in some countries to make beer, wine and . It also produces betulinic acid which is used in antimalarial, antiretroviral and anti- inflammatories. This beautiful tree has 12. Japanese reddish bark and light, Cedar waterproof and strong wood. Cryptomeria It's actually a close relative of japonica redwoods and sequoias. It is Japan's national tree and is Northside of the planted in many sacred sites. WA Trust for There is many varieties of Historic Cryptomeria ranging from Preservation featherlike needles to Manor dreadlock, thick foliage and purple and pink needles.

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Another tree in the Rosaeae 13.English family, this is one is native to midland Europe. It has hawthorn hermaphrodyite flowers and Crataegus is a very important medicinal laevigata plant. Its fruit has bioflavanoids which have lots Southside of of and are used University St. by to prevent blood vessels First Hill Park from deteriorating, and for heart and circulatory disorders (ex. Angina). Its species name comes from the Greek kratos referring to its very hard wood. We have Black Hawthorn in the Pacific NW. This tree is not a chestnut 14. Horse and horses do not eat its chestnut fruit, which is toxic to them. Aesculus Though the seed (conker) hippocastanum looks almost exactly like a chestnut and the young Southside conkers contain saponins. University St. Saponin can be used to make from Summit a frothy lather as for soaps Ave. to First Hill and shampoos. It is a hardy Park tree that can grow in cold and dark climates as far as Iceland. Next time you want to play conkers you know where to go and say "Oddly oddly onker my first conker"! Just remember to bring a string. Cherry plums are native to 15.Cherry plum Asia and Europe. There Prunus flowers are similar to cherry cerasifera blossoms and bloom early in spring. Prunus trees are part Southside of of the Rosaceae family and University St are cyanogenic, producing cyanide. This tree can have sweet or sour fruits. And the sour plum is used to make Georgian tkemali sour sauce for meat, poultry or potato dishes. Yummy!

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Its golden, compound leaves 16. Frisia black give this tree its name. Just locust/ Golden beautiful!! Tolstoy mentions locust locust trees in , being Robinia one of aristocracies favorite. pseudoacacia Yet this tree is native to 'Frisia' North America and is considered its strongest timber. It was used to build NE corner of Jamestown and 'hardened' Bolyston Ave. the U.S. navy in the War of and E Union St. 1812. This tree is in the Leguminosae or Fabaceae family, in other words is related to beans =-) This beautiful blue spruce is 17. Colorado native to the Rocky Blue Spruce Mountains. It has a Picea pungens Christmas tree shape. This poor tree has two NW corner of adelgids that can affect it. University St. You can use a pesticide to and Bolyston get rid of it but then it also Avenue gets rid of its pretty blueish color. It was discovered in 1862 high up in the mountains. This tree has fossils as old as 18. Ginkgo 270 million years. Eastern Ginkgo biloba Washington used to have of them as is evidenced in the Ginkgo NW side of Petrified Forest Interpretive University Trail near Ellensburg. 'Biloba' between comes from the Latin for its Bolyston Ave. bi-lobed seeds. Many believe and Summit Ave. its extract can increase your cognitive function. Its seeds are edible and are made into a dish called Buddha's delight. They are a special treat for Chinese weddings and New Year’s.

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Magnolias can be dated back 19. Evergreen 20 million years, before bees magnolia and bumble-bees were Magnolia around. This caused there grandiflora carpels to become really strong to withstand the Throughout landing of heavy beetles for northside of pollination. There are many University Ave. kinds of magnolia and some between can grow in such cold places Summit Ave. and as Finland. This variety is Minor Ave. native to SE U.S.A. and its flower can be up to a foot long. Also, it is state flower of Mississippi. Japanese maples come in a 20. Japanese variety of colored leaves maple which in turn can be Acer palmatum dissected and in different sizes. In Latin 'palmatum' Throughout refers to the leaf which looks northside of like a little palm. You can University Ave. enjoy a plethora of these between maples in Freeway Park. It is Summit Ave. and a wonderful tree to make a Minor Ave. bonsai and as the name implies it is native to NE Asia. This variety of horse 21.Red Horse chestnut is a cross of A. Chestnut hippocastanum and A. pavia. Aesculus x It does not grow as tall as carnea other horsechestnuts and barely produces fruit aka North side of conkers. This makes it a University St. great city tree since you between Minor don't have any conkers to Ave. and Boren pick up. Eventually it will Ave. have pretty pink flowers.

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This tree was mistakenly 22.Witch Hazel given its name by early Hamamelis spp. European explorers who thought it was a hazelnut SW corner of due to its similar looking Terry Ave. and seed and because they saw University St. native Americans using it for medicine purposes (witch doctors). This wonderful tree has many purposes one of which is the production of tannins 'hamamelitannins' which are used to fight colon cancer. Its extract is also used for itchiness, inflammation of the eyes and mucous membranes, pain and swelling, hemorrhoids, bruises, minor burns and other skin problems.

This tall pine is native to 23.Austrian Europe and Northern Africa. Pine It has two long, strong Pinus nigra needles and small cones. Some call it the hardest In front of working pine since it can Horizon House grow in really bad conditions, such as windy slopes or poor soil. It is also an important lumber tree in southern Europe.