Recommended Trees Canopy Trees – Greater Than 30 Feet Mature Height Latin Name Cultivar Common Name Acer barbaratum var. floridanum Southern Sugar Maple Acer rubrum Many Excellent Cultivars Red Maple Acer X freemanii Many Excellent Cultivars Freeman Maple Acer saccharum Heat Resistant Cultivars Sugar Maple Betula nigra Good Cultivars River Birch Carpinus betulus ‘Fastigiata’ Upright European Hornbeam Cedrus atlantica Atlas Cedar Cedrus deodora Deodor Cedar Celtis laevigata ‘All Seasons’ Sugarberry Cryptomeria japonica Japanese Cedar Cunninghamia lanceolata China Fir Diospyros virginiana *Male Trees Only American Persimon Fagus grandifolia American Beech Fraxinus ornus Flowering Ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica Green Ash Ginkgo biloba *Male Trees Only Ginkgo Gleditsia triacanthos ‘Inermis’ Thornless Honeylocust Juniperis virginiana Eastern Redcedar Koelruteria paniculata Many Cultivars Golden Raintree Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Rotundiloba’ Fruitless Sweetgum Liriodendron tulipifera Tulip Poplar Magnolia grandiflora Southern Magnolia Metasequoia glyptostroboides Dawn Redwood Nyssa sylvatica Blackgum, Tupelo Ostrya virginiana Hophornbeam 1 Canopy Trees – Greater Than 30 Feet Mature Height Latin Name Cultivar Common Name Oxydendron arboreum Sourwood Pinus taeda Lobblolly Pine Pistacia chinensis Chinese Pistache Platanus X acerifolia (avoid ‘Bloodgood’) London Planetree Quercus accutissima Sawtooth Oak Quercus alba White Oak Quercus bicolor Swamp White Oak Quercus imbricaria Shingle Oak Quercus laurifolia Laurel Oak Quercus lyrata Overcup Oak Quercus macrocarpa Bur Oak Quercus michauxii Swamp Chestnut Oak Quercus muehlenbergii Chinkapin Oak Quercus myrsinifolia Chinese Evergreen Oak Quercus nigra Water Oak Quercus palustris Pin Oak Quercus phellos Willow Oak Quercus robur ‘Fastigiata’ Fastigiate English Oak Quercus stellata Post Oak Quercus velutina Black Oak Quercus virginiana Live Oak Sassafrass albidum Sassafrass Sophora japonica Japanese Pagoda Tree Taxodium distichum Bald Cypress Tilia tomentosa Silver Linden Ulmus americana Only DED Resistant Cultivars American Elm Ulnus parvifolia Many Excellent Cultivars Lacebark Elm Zelkova serrata Many Good Cultivars Japanese Zelkova 2.