Encyclopedia of Stanford Trees

Names conformed to Sunset's Western Garden Guide, 7th ed. (2001). Entries except when otherwise noted are from Ron Bracewell's Trees of Stanford and Environs, Stanford Historical Society, ©2005. Shrubs and vines are being added to the encyclopedia. There is also a Species Lost list of cultivated trees once grown on campus but no longer present. Leaf silhouette sampler gallery

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[A] Aaron's Beard | Abelia | Afghan Pine | African Linden | Alder | Aleppo Pine | Algerian Ivy | Almond | American Dogwood | American Elm | American Linden | American Sweet Gum | Angel’s Trumpet | Apple | Apple Box | Apricot | Arborvitae | Arborvitae, Oriental | Argyle Apple | Arizona cypress | Arroyo Willow | Ash | Atlas Cedar | Atlas Pistache | Austrian Black Pine | Australian Bluebell Creeper | Australian Rosemary | Avocado |

[B] Baeckia | Bald Cypress | Bamboo | Bangalay | Basswood | Bay Laurel | Bear Grass, Tree | Beech | Beefwood see Casuarina | Benjamin Fig | Bigleaf Maple | Big Tree | Big Berry Manzanita | Big-Cone Pinyon Pine | Birch | Bird of Paradise | Bishop Pine | Black Gum | Black Locust | Black Oak | Blackwood Acacia | Bloodwood | Blood-Red Trumpet Vine | Blue Elderberry | Blue Gum | Blue Oak | Blue Palm | Blue Witch | Boojum Tree | Bottlebrush, Weeping | Bottle Tree | Bougainvillea | Box Elder | Boxleaf Azara | Brazilian Pepper | Breath of Heaven | Bridalwreath | Bronze Loquat | Broom | Brown Dogwood | Brush Box | Brush Cherry | Buckeye see Aesculus | Buckthorn | Buddha's Hand | Bunya Bunya | Bush Mallow | Bush poppy | Bushy Yate

[C] Cajeput see Malaleuca | Calabrian pine | California Barberry | California Bay | California Black Oak | California Black Walnut | California Buckeye | California Fan Palm | California Fuchsia | California Laurel | California Nutmeg | California Pepper | California Pipevine | California Plane Tree | California Privat | California Redbud | California Rose | California Sagebrush | California Sycamore | Camperdown ulm | Camphor Tree | Canary Island Date Palm | Canary Island Pine | Canyon Gooseberry | Canyon Live Oak | Cape Fucshia | Cape Honeysuckle | Cape Mallow | Carob | Castor Aralia | Carolina Cherry | Carolina Poplar | Carrotwood | Catalina Cherry | Catalina Ironwood | Catalpa | Ceanothus | Cedar see Cedrus | Chamise | Chaparral Currant | Chaparral Morning-Glory | Chaparral Pea | Cherry | Chestnut | Chihuahuan Sage | Chilean Pepper | Chinaberry | Chinese Elm | Chinese Fan Palm | Chinese Hackberry | Chinese Pistache | Chinese privet | Chinese Tallow Tree | Chinese Wisteria | Chir Pine | Cider Gum | Cilician Fir | Coast Banksia | Coast Live Oak | Coast Red Elderberry | Coast Redwood | Coast Silktassel | Cockspur Coral Tree | Coffeeberry | Common Boxwood | Common Juniper | Common Snowberry | Common Wooly Sunflower | Cootamundra Wattle | Coprosma | Coral Tree | Cork Oak | Corkscrew Willow | Cottonwood see Populus | Coulter Pine | Coyote Bush | Crab Apple | Crape Myrtle | Creeping Fig | Creeping Snowberry | Cypress see Cupressus

[D] Date Palm | Dawn Redwood | Deodar Cedar | Desert Cassia | Desert Spoon | Desert Willow | Digger Pine | Dogwood see Cornus | Douglas Fir | Dove Tree | Drooping She-Oak

[E] Eastern Redbud | Elder | Elderberry see Sambucus | Elephant-Foot Tree | Elm see Ulmus | Empress Tree | Encina | English Boxwood | English Elm | English Hawthorn | English Holly | English Ivy | English Laurel | English Oak | English Walnut | Escallonia | European Ash | European Beech | European Hackberry | European White Birch | Evergreen Clematis | Evergreen Currant | Evergreen Euonymus | Evergreen Pear

[F] Fan Palm | Fern Podocarpus | Field Maple | Fig | Filbert | Fir see Abies | Firewheel Tree | Flame Tree | Flannel Bush | Flaxleaf Paperbark | Flooded Gum | Floss-Silk Tree | Flowering Ash | Flowering Plum | Fortune's Euonymus | Fountain Bush | Fremont Cottonwood | French Broom | Fringe Tree

[G] Germander | Ghost Gum | Giant Reed | Giant Sequoia | Gimlet | Glossy Abelia | Glossy Privet | Gold Cup Oak | Goldenrain Tree | Golden Currant | Golden Yarrow | Golden Weeping Willow | Granite Honey Myrtle | Grapefruit | Grecian Laurel | Green Wattle | Griselinia | Ground Rose | Guadelupe Palm | Guava, Pineapple | Gum | Gum-barked Coolibah | Gungurru

[H] Hackberry see Celtis | Hairy Honeysuckle | Hawthorn | Hawthorn, Indian | Hazelnut | Heavenly Bamboo | Hedgerow Thorn | Hibiscus | Himalayan Birch | Himalayan White Pine | Holly | Holly-Leaf Cherry | Hollywood Juniper | Holm Oak | Honeysuckle see Lonicera | Honey Locust | Honey Myrtle, Showy | Hoop Pine | Hopbush | Hornbeam | Horse Chestnut | Horsetail Tree Hydrangea

[I] Incense Cedar | Indian Cigar | Indian Rubber Tree | Ironbark | Ironwood | Italian Alder | Italian Buchthorn | Italian Cypress | Italian Jasmine | Italian Stone Pine

[J] Jacaranda | Japanese Barberry | Japanese Blueberry Tree | Japanese Boxwood | Japanese Euonymus | Japanese Honeysuckle | Japanese Maple | Japanese Persimmon | Jasmine | Jasmine, Italian | Jeffrey Pine | Jelecote Pine | Jerusalem Thorn | Jujube | Juniper see Juniperus

[K] Kanuka | Karo | Karri | Kohuhu | Kumquat | Kurrajong

[L] Laburnum | Lacebark | Lacebark Pine | Lady Banks' Rose | Lantana | Larch see Larix | Laurel | Lavender | Lavender Cotton | Lawson Cypress | Leatherwood | Leather Oak | Lemonade Berry | Lemon-Scented Gum | Levantine Live Oak | Licorice Plant | Lilac | Lillypilly | Lime | Linden see Tilia | Live Oak | Locust, Black | Lodgepole Pine | Lombardy Poplar | London Plane Tree | Loquat

[M] Madrone | Mahogany, Red | Mahogany, Swamp | Magnolia | Maidenhair Tree | Mallee | Mandarin Orange | Mandevilla | Manna Gum | Manuka | Manzanita | Maple | Mayten Tree | Mealy Stringybark | Mediterranean Fan Palm | Mexican Blue Palm | Mexican Bush Sage | Mexican Fan Palm | Michelia | Mock Orange | Modesto Ash | Modesty | Monkey Puzzle | Monterey Cypress | Monterey Pine | Montezuma Cypress | Mountain Mahogany | Moort | Moreton Bay Chestnut | Mulberry see Morus | Mulefat | Myrtle

[N] Naked coral tree | Narrow-leaved Ironbark | Natal Coral Tree | Natal Plum | Nepal Camphor Tree | New Zealand Flax | New Zealand Xmas Tree | Ngaio | Noel's Grevillea | Norfolk Island Hibiscus | Norfolk Island Pine | Norway Maple | Norway Spruce | Nutmeg

[O] Oak see Quercus | Oceanspray | Oleander | Olive | Orange | Orchid Tree | Oregon Ash | Oriental Arborvitae | Oriental Plane | Oriental Sweet Gum | Oso Berry | Ovens Wattle |

[P] Pacific Dogwood | Pacific Ninebark | Pacific Wax Myrtle | Pagoda Tree | Palm Lily | Palo Verde | Paperbark | Paperbark Maple | Passion Vine | Peak Rush-Rose | Pear | Pecan | Pepperidge | Peppermint | Peppermint, Willow-Leaved | Pepper Tree | Periwinkle | Persian Parrotia | Persimmon | Peruvian Pepper Tree | Photinia | Pin-Cushion Hakea | Pindo Palm | Pineapple Guava | Pin Oak | Piñon | Pipestems | Pistache | Pistachio | Pitcher Sage | Plane Tree | Plum | Plume Cryptomeria | Pohutukawa | Poinsettia | Poison Oak | Pomegranate | Ponderosa Pine | Poplar see Populus | Port Orford Cedar | Portuguese Laurel | Potato Vine | Prickly Paperbark | Pride of Madeira | Privet see Ligustrum | Puka | Purple Orchid Tree | Purple Trumpet Vine

[Q] Queen Palm | Quince | Quince, Flowering

[R] Raywood Ash | Red Buckeye | Redbud see Cercis | Red Cedar | Red-Flowered Mallee | Red-Flowering Gum | Red Horse Chestnut | Red Maple | Red Oak | Red-Spotted Gum | Redwood | River Red Gum | River She-Oak | Roble | Rosemary

[S] Sago Palm | Santa Barbara Daisy | Santa Lucia Fir | Sawleaf Zelkova | Scarlet Oak | Scotch Pine | Service-Berry | Shamel Ash | She-Oak see Casuarina | Shrubby Yew Pine | Siberian Elm | Silktassel | Silk Tree | Silky Oak | Silver Wattle | Smoke Tree | Smooth-Barked Apple | Soapbark Tree | Sour Gum | Spanish Chestnut | Spiny Redberry | Sprenger asparagus | Spruce see Picea | Sticky Hopbush | St. John’s Bread | Sticky Monkeyflower | Stone Pine | Star Jasmine | Straggly Gooseberry | Strawberry Guava | Strawberry Tree | Sugar Gum | Sugar Maple | Sumac | Swamp She-Oak | Sweet Bay | Sweet Gum | Sweet Hakea | Swiss Mountain Pine | Sycamore see Acer & Platanus | Sydney Golden Wattle

[T] Talauma | Tallow Tree, Chinese | Tamarisk | Tanbark Oak | Tangelo | Tarata | Tasmanian Blue Gum | Tasmanian Tree Fern | Tea Tree | Tea Tree, Manuka | Thorn, Hedgerow | Thorn, Washington | Tipu Tree | Titoki | Tobira | Torch Lobelia | Torrey Pine | Toyon | Trazel | Tree Aloe | Tree Bear Grass | Tree Fern, Australian | Tree of Heaven | Trident Maple | True Myrtle | Tulip Tree | Tupelo | Turkish Hazel

[V] Valley Oak | Velvet Sage | Vine Maple | Virgin's Bower

[W] Walnut | Walnut, Black | Wampee | Warted Yate | Washington Thorn | Water Gum | Wattle see Acacia | Wax Myrtle, Pacific | Weeping Bottlebrush | Weeping Willow | Western Burning Bush | Western Choke Cherry | Western Leatherwood | Western Red Cedar | White Alder | White Ash | White Fir | White Mulberry | White Poplar | Wilga | Willow-Leaved Peppermint | Willow see Salix | Willow Myrtle | Wilson's Holly | Windmill Palm | Winter-Blooming Bergenia | Wirilda | Wisteria | Wollemi Pine | Wood Rose | Woolly Butt, Camden | Wych Elm

[X] Xylosma

[Y] Yate see Eucalyptus | Yellow Buckeye | Yerba de Selva | Yerba Santa | Yew | Yew Pine | Yoshino Cherry | Yucca

[Z] Zelkova