Collection / 226 species references
Park and Recreational Area Trees
Park trees have to tolerate compaction, informal pruning, irrigation that varies by zone and people underneath them all day. Lagerstroemia, Magnolia, Ficus, Olea, Syzygium, Melaleuca, Leptospermum, Prunus and...
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Park and Recreational Area Trees
Park trees have to tolerate compaction, informal pruning, irrigation that varies by zone and people underneath them all day. Lagerstroemia, Magnolia, Ficus, Olea, Syzygium, Melaleuca, Leptospermum, Prunus and Pyrus make up the working range, chosen for durability rather than novelty.
Two things disqualify a species from public ground faster than any tolerance: heavy or slippery fruit drop, and thorns at head height. Check both against the actual placement rather than the species entry. For canopy performance specifically see shade trees for public parks and gardens, for the shrub layer park and recreational area shrubs, and selecting trees for theme parks for how this is done at visitor scale.
Species in this collection
