Start Here! D Central Lawn Children’s Play Area Garden Guide6 Palm Garden 1 Australian Garden Start Here! D Central Lawn Salesforce Park showcases7 California over Garden 50 species of Children’s Play Area 2 Mediterraneantrees and Basin over 230 species of understory plants. 6 Palm Garden -ã ¼ÜÊ ÊăØÜ ØÊèÜãE úØƀØÊèÃJapanese Maples ¼ÃØ Ê¢ 1 Australian Garden 3 Prehistoric¢ØÕ輫ÕØÊ£ØÂÜÃã«ó«ã«Üŧ¼«¹ĆãÃÜÜ Garden 7 California Garden ¼ÜÜÜŧÊÃØãÜŧÃØ¢ã«Ã£¼ÜÜÜũF Amphitheater Garden Guide 2 Mediterranean Basin 4 Wetland Garden Main Lawn E Japanese Maples Salesforce Park showcases over 50 species of 3 Prehistoric Garden trees and over 230 species of understory plants. A Oak Meadow 8 Desert Garden F Amphitheater It also offers a robust year-round calendar of 4 Wetland Garden Main Lawn free public programs and activities, like fitness B Bamboo Grove 9 Fog Garden Desert Garden classes, concerts, and crafting classes! A Oak Meadow 8 5 Redwood Forest 10 Chilean Garden B Bamboo Grove 9 Fog Garden C Main Plaza 11 South African 10 Chilean Garden Garden 5 Redwood Forest C Main Plaza 11 South African Garden 1 Children’s Australian Play Area Garden ABOUT THE GARDENS The botanist aboard the Endeavor, Sir Joseph Banks, is credited with introducing many plants from Australia to the western world, and many This 5.4 acre park has a layered soil system that plants today bear his name. balances seismic shifting, collects and filters storm- water, and irrigates the gardens. Additionally, the soil Native to eastern Australia, Grass Trees may grow build-up and dense planting help offset the urban only 3 feet in 100 years, and mature plants can be heat island effect by lowering the air temperature. centuries old. The gardens showcase the wide variety of plants that grow in California's Mediterranean climate as TREES well as the diversity of plants from several of the world's other Mediterranean climate zones. Each of KURRAJONG those areas, from Mediterranean Europe to western Brachychiton Populneus Australia, is featured in its own location in the park. NARROW-LEAVED BOTTLE TREE The park's different gardens allow visitors to also Brachychiton Rupestris appreciate the climatic conditions and environments from drought to fog, desert to forest that exist in FLAME BOTTLETREE California. Brachychiton Acerifolius LACEBARK TREE The park and all plantings were designed by PWP Brachychiton Discolor Landscape Architecture (Peter Walker & Partners). PLANTS WILLOW WATTLE Acacia Iteaphylla CORAL DRIFT FLAME BUSH Adenanthos Cuneatus 'Coral Drift' COASTAL WOOLLYBUSH Adenanthos Sericeus STORM CLOUD LILY OF THE NILE Agapanthus 'Storm Cloud' BLUE HIBISCUS Alyogyne Huegelii RED KANGAROO PAW Anigozanthos 'Bush Sunset' Pictured: Echium Candicans HEATH-LEAVED BANKSIA Banksia Ericifolia SHOWY BANKSIA Banksia Speciosa 2 HAIRPIN BANKSIA Banksia Spinulosa' Schnapper Point' BUSH PEA Chorizema 'Bush Flame' Mediterranean GIANT SPEAR LILY Doryanthes Palmeri Basin FLAX LILY Dianella ‘Cassa Blue’ The climate of San Francisco is itself classified as DWARF MAT RUSH Lomandra Longifolia 'Breeze' 'Mediterranean' in reference to our dry summer and cool, rainy winters, a weather pattern we share GRAY HONEY-MYRTLE with much of the Mediterranean Basin. Melaleuca Incana Cork Oak, harvested from living trees, is used for AUSTRALIAN GRASS TREE wine bottle stoppers. Xanthorrhoea Preissii Oak woodlands have higher levels of biodiversity than virtually any other terrestrial ecosystem in California, providing habitat for nearly half of the terrestrial vertebrate species found in the state. TREES MARINA STRAWBERRY TREE Arbutus 'Marina' MEDITERREAN FAN PALM Chamaerops Humilis OLIVE Olea 'Swan Hill' CORK OAK Quercus Suber Pictured: Anigozanthos ‘Bush Sunset’ PLANTS BLUE MEDITERRANEAN FAN PALM Chamaerops Humilis var. Cerifera ROCKROSE Cistus Ladanifer 'Blanche' SMOKETREE Cotinus Coggygria 'Royal Purple' AUSTRALIAN FUCHSIA Correa 'Ivory Bells' MEDITERRANEAN SPURGE Euphorbia Characias Wulfenii Pictured: Chorizema 'Bush Flame' MADEIRA CRANESBILL Geranium Maderense CORSICAN HELLEBORE Helleborus Argutifolius 3 BAY LAUREL Laurus Nobilis LAVENDER Lavandula X Intermedia 'Grosso' COMMON MYRTLE Prehistoric Myrtus Communis CAT MINT Garden Nepeta Reichenbachiana OLIVE ‘LITTLE OLIVE’ Excavation of the Transit Center site unearthed a Olea Europaea 'Montra' Columbian mammoth tooth and vertebrate bone fragments from the Pleistocene Epoch 10 to 15 HOPLEY'S PURPLE OREGANO million years ago, 110 feet below grade. This Origanum Laevigatum 'Hopley's’ garden exhibits any plants that have lived since the JERUSALEM SAGE time of the dinosaurs. Phlomis Fruticosa TREES VARIEGATED ITALIAN BUCKTHORN Rhamnus Alaternus 'Variegata' MONKEY PUZZLE TREE TUSCAN BLUE ROSEMARY Araucaria Araucana Rosmarinus Officinalis 'Tuscan Blue' GINKGO LEMON QUEEN LAVENDER COTTON Ginkgo Biloba Santolina Neapolitana 'Lemon Queen' CHAMPAK AUTUMN MOOR GRASS Michelia Champaca Sesleria Autumnalis WOLLEMI PINE GIANT FEATHER GRASS Wollemia Nobilis Stipa Gigantea BUSH GERMANDER PLANTS Teucrium Fruticans 'Azureum' NEW ZEALAND WIND GRASS Anemanthele Lessoniana RED BRAZILIAN TREE FERN Blechnum Brasiliense SILVER LADY FERN Blechnum Gibbum ‘Silver Lady’ AUSTRALIAN TREE FERN Cyathea Cooperi PANZHIHUA SAGO PALM Cycas Panzhihuaensis MADAGASCAR CYCAD Cyas Thouarsii TASMANIAN TREE FERN Dicksonia Antarctica Pictured: Euphorbia Characias Wulfenii EASTERN CAPE GIANT CYCAD Encephalartos Altensteinii THE NATAL CYCAD Encephalartos Natalensis 4 BURRAWANG Macrozamia Communis NEW SOUTH WALES MACROZAMIA Macrozamia Johnsonii Wetland CARNARVON GORGE MACROZAMIA Macrozamia Moorei Garden SCENTED PEARL Michelia Yunnanensis This wetland was designed to polish greywater and OLIVE ‘LITTLE OLIVE’ Olea Europaea 'Montra' will temporarily store, filter, and clean runoff water. It can provide habitat for butterflies, bees, birds, and other creatures. TREES RIVER BIRCH Betula Nigra PLANTS JAPANESE SWEET FLAG Acorus Gramineus 'Ogon' BEAR'S BREECHES Acanthus Mollis FROSTY CURLS HAIR SEDGE Carex Albula RED-TWIG DOGWOOD Cornus Sericea 'Isanti' AUTUMN FERN Dryopteris Erythrosora Pictured: Araucaria Araucana DWARF HORSETAIL Equisetum Scirpoides GIANT RHUBARB / DINOSAUR FOOD Gunnera Manicata FIBER OPTIC GRASS Isolepis Cernua CARMAN'S SACRED JAPANESE RUSH Juncus 'Carman's Japanese' QUARTZ CREEK SOFT RUSH Juncus Effusus 'Quartz Creek' PALE RUSH Juncus Pallidus Pictured: Cyathea Cooperi ELK BLUE CALIFORNIA GRAY RUSH Juncus Patens 'Elk Blue' LACE FERN Microlepia Strigosa A Oak Meadow . TREES CALIFORNIA BUCKEYE Aesculus Californica PERSIAN IRONWOOD Parrotia Persica COAST LIVE OAK Quercus Agrifolia ENGELMANN OAK Quercus Engelmannii Pictured: Gunnera Manicata NETLEAF OAK Quercus Rugosa ISLAND OAK Quercus Tomentella SOUTHERN LIVE OAK Quercus Virginiana CORK OAK Quercus Suber Pictured: Acorus Gramineus ‘Ogon’ B Bamboo Grove PLANTS GIANT TIMBER BAMBOO Phyllostachys Bambusoides Pictured: Acanthus Mollis RED KANGAROO PAW Anigozanthos 'Bush Sunset' ELK CLOVER 5 Aralia Californica CHINESE HOLLY Berberis Lomariifolia WEEPING BROWN SEDGE Carex Flagellifera Redwood AUSTRALIAN TREE FERN Cyathea Cooperi Forest TASMAN FLAX-LILY Dianella Tasmanica The California State tree includes two members of TASMANIAN TREE FERN the Sequoia family: the Coast Redwood, which is Dicksonia Antarctica the tallest tree in the world reaching 400 feet tall, and the Giant Sequoia, whose 30-foot diameter OSTRICH FERN Matteuccia Struthiopteris trunk makes it the most massive tree species. GRAY HONEY-MYRTLE In redwood forests, 80% of the plant species have Melaleuca Incana the ability to absorb water vapor directly through their leaves. EVERGEEN EULALIA Miscanthus Transmorrisonensis The fog irrigates plants when it condenses on tree surfaces and drips onto the ground. During summer PACIFIC WAX MYRTLE Myrica Californica drought, fog condensation provides around two-thirds of the water needed by understory plants. COMMON MYRTLE Myrtus Communis TREES NEW ZEALAND FLAX Phormium ‘Dusky Chief’ CALIFORNIA INCENSE-CEDAR Calocedrus Decurrens WESTERN SWORD FERN Polystichum Munitum HIMALAYAN CEDAR Cedrus Deodara SILVER PUYA Puya Coerulea BRISBANE BOX Lophostemon Confertus ITALIAN BUCKTHORN Rhamnus Alaternus TORREY PINE Pinus Torreyana EVE CASE COFFEEBERRY Rhamnus Californica ‘Eve Case’ WEEPING SEQUOIA Sequoiadendron Giganteum 'Pendulum’ PINK-FLOWERING CURRANT Ribes S. Glutinosum ‘Claremont’ 'APTOS BLUE' COASTAL REDWOOD Sequoia Sempervirens 'Aptos Blue' AUSTRALIAN RASPBERRY Rubus Parvifolius PLANTS EMERALD CARPET CREEPING RASPBERRY Rubus Pentalobus ‘Emerald Carpet’ BEAR’S BREECHES Acanthus Mollis COMMON SNOWBERRY Symphoricarpos Albus JAPANESE SWEET FLAG Acorus Gramineus ‘Ogon’ FRINGE CUPS Tellima Grandiflora GIANT CHAIN FERN Woodwardia Fimbriata WHITE INSIDE-OUT FLOWER Vancouveria Hexandra 6 DAVID VIBURNUM Viburnum Davidii Palm C Garden Only one species of palm, the California Fan Palm, is native to the state, although the Guadalupe Palm, native to Guadalupe Island off the coast of Baja California, also Main Plaza lies within the California Floristic Province and is considered by some to be a native Californian. TREES The Wine Palm's sap can be used to make a fermented beverage, but the palm must be felled in order to LONDON PLANE do so. Overharvesting of this palm for its sap and Platanus X Acerifolia development pressures have left it vulnerable in its native South American habitat. TREES BRAHEA CLARA Brahea Clara D GUADALUPE PALM Brahea Edulis JELLY PALM Butia Capitata EUROPEAN FAN PALM Central Lawn Chamaerops Humilis CYPHOKENTIA CERIFERA Cyphokentia Cerifera TREES HOWEA