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The Champion Trees of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh Garden. Trees of interest due to size characteristics, as defined by The Tree Register TROBI (UK). Trees carry a blue label.
A hybrid with parents from Japan and China.
A hybrid between sycamores, Acer monspessulanum and Acer opalus
Acer caesium • 3 • Himalayan maple
A common maple in Asia.
Acer campestre var. tauricum • 4 • Taurian field maple
A deciduous small tree or large shrub, it is a variety of field maple has paired, often palmately-lobed leaves and small green flowers that are followed by characteristic winged fruits in autumn.
Acer heldreichii • 5 • Heldreich's maple, Balkan Maple, Greek Maple
Introduced to Britain in 1879.
Acer heldreichii • 6 • Heldreich's maple, Balkan Maple, Greek Maple
Introduced to Britain in 1879.
An old fashioned maple tree with red backs to the leaves. Named after Camille de Rohan, Czech nobleman (1800-1892).
Acer saccharum subsp. nigrum • 8 • black Maple
A deciduous tree, to around 25m high. Leaves turn bright yellow, orange and red in autumn. This species is used for timber as hard maple, for landscaping, and for maple syrup production. In Noth America iut is oftern known as Acer nigrum. Girth: Champion Tree Girth & Height: Country Champion of Scotland Girth & Height: County Champion of Edinburgh
A hybrid of Aesculus flava and Aesculus sylvatica, chestnut trees.
Alnus formosana • 10 • Formosan alder
A species of alder endemic to Taiwan.
Alnus formosana • 11 • Formosan alder
A species of alder endemic to Taiwan.
A selection of native alder with an upright conical habit.
Often confused with Betula papyrifera another birch tree.
Betula pendula 'Tristis' • 14 • Slender European Birch, Weeping Birch
An exceptionally graceful weeping birch tree. The long, heavily weeping branches are twisted at the tips and form a tall, narrow crown. Catkins appear in the spring.
Castanea dentata • 15 • American chestnut
An American chestnut tree, with spiny fruits.
Slow-growing weeping conifer reaching around a 5m dome.
A striking conifer that superficially resembles a columnar yew tree.
Cornus schindleri • 18 • Dogwood, kang ding lai mu
A rare tree in cultivation.
Corylus jacquemontii • 19 • Indian tree hazel, Jacquemont's hazelnut
A hazel tree from central Asia with small edible nuts, grouped in small clusters.
An excellent display of long lasting red berries in winter which are popular with birds.
An excellent display of long lasting red berries in winter which are popular with birds.
An Asian species of hawthorn with black fruit. Although recommended as an ornamental and hardy in cold climates, it is rarely cultivated.
Euonymus carnosus • 23 • fleshy-flowered spindle tree
The fleshy-flowered spindle tree, pink fruit splitting to reveal orange seeds. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Euonymus fimbriatus • 24 • fringed spindle tree
Red and orange fruits in autumb but you may not notice it flower in spring, as the flowers are small and green in colour.
Euonymus sanguineus • 25 • blood red spindle, 'brug shing
Great autumn colour, the colour of the best red wine.
Euonymus sanguineus • 26 • blood red spindle, 'brug shing
Great autumn colour, the colour of the best red wine.
A purple selection of common beech.
Fraxinus latifolia 'Pulverulenta' • 28 • dusty Oregon ash
This as tree has leaves covered in fine grains of dust. It is rare in cultivation in Europe.
Often named as a Whitebeam (Sorbus). It is a rare small tree from China, with yellow fruits in autumn.
Ilex aquifolium 'Argentea Marginata Pendula' • 30 • Perry's Weeping Holly
'Argentea Marginata Pendula' is the Latin for a cream edged weeping holly tree.
This is a vigorous form of our native holly.
Introduced by Pierre-Louis Briot around 1850's named after a familly member.
A cultivated conifer.
It is the result of a cross between common whitebeam (Aria edulis) and the chequer tree (Torminalis glaberrima), a naturally occuring hybrid, native to western and central Europe.
This large growning privet is not at all copact but the flower heads are.
Ligustrum quihoui • 36 • waxyleaf privet
Very scented flowers in late summer.
Notholithocarpus densiflorus • 37 • tanbark oak
A rare relarive of the oak tree, this one is evergreen in most winters.
Introduced from western Hupei in 1908 by Ernest Wilson a famous collecter of plants in China. It is rare in cultivation.
This crab apple is a hybrid, the parents are the hall carab apple and siebalds crab apple (Malus halliana x Malus sieboldii).
A naturally occurring hybrid species of crab apple in the family Rosaceae, native to the Far East, This selection is named after Siberia and has particularly red fruit.
Malus × zumi • 41
This plants parents are the Manchurian crab apple (Malus mandshuricaI and Siebold's crab apple (Malus sieboldii), both from Japan.
A small deciduous tree with a broad ovoid crown and white flowers followed by a profuse crop of bright, deep yellow fruits 2.5cm in length, which persist well into winter. It is a selection of the Manchurian crab apple (Malus mandshuricaI and Siebold's crab apple (Malus sieboldii), both from Japan.
A hardy Chinese crab apple, valuable for bees and provides food for birds.
Attractive silver backed leaves and good autumn colour.
Osmanthus armatus • 45 • thorny holly olive
Leaves like a holly with white flowers in the autumn.
Phellodendron amurense • 46 • Amur cork tree, Siberian cork tree, 黄檗 (huáng bò)
The Ainu people of China used its fruit, called "shikerebe-ni" (in Ainu, sikerpe), as a traditional medicine, the bark is also used dried.
Pourthiaea arguta • 47 • noble Christmas berry
The leaves turn a fantastic shade of orange before falling, showy red berries remain long into winter, particularly prominent at Christmas.
Pinus balfouriana subsp. austrina • 48 • foxtail pine
Native to the Rocky Mts. of the USA.
A large cultivar hybrid poplar. Good yellow autumn colour.
A large cultivar poplar. Good yellow autumn colour.
Widely distributed in eastern Asia, including China, Japan, and Korea. The flowers are white, fragrant and appear in late spring. The fruit is a small, red or purple drupe, containing a single seed.
Prunus maackii • 52 • Manchurian cherry, Amur cherry
The white flowers are followed by small black fruits. Rare in cultivation.
Prunus pleiocerasus • 53 • bitter cherry
A rare bitter cherry, introduce in 1912.
Prunus trichostoma • 54 • 川西樱桃
Grows in the high mountains of China. Small white flowers in spring. similar to cherry blossom.
Pterocarya macroptera var. delavayi • 55 • yun nan feng yang
A rare tree, probably due to its tenderness and size. Spectacular catkin like flowers.
Pyrus communis • 56 • Common Pear, pear
The tree produces white blossoms in spring and fruits that are sweet, juicy, and have a grainy texture.
A rare pear tree with lots of white flowers in spring, very small fruitin autumn. Thin grey leaves make it look unusual in summer.
Pyrus korshinskyi • 58 • Wild pear
The ornamental pears are truly magnificent in blossom and this specimen excels in expectation. The branches are overwhelmed by the profusion of blossom at the ends of the shoots.
This tree is only found in botanic gardens out side of Asia, the native range.
Pyrus spinosa • 60
It has white flowers which bloom in April–May. The fruits are bitter and astringent, produced in autumn.
A hybrid of two oaks, the Pontic oak and our native oak. (Quercus pontica and Quercus robur). It was named in 1935.
A selection of native oak. 'Mutabilis' means variable.
A selection of naive oak.The word 'Scolopendrifolia' is derived from Greek for earthworms, centipedes or millipedes, perhaps refering to the shape of the flowers.
A large oak tree. Autum colour is orange, red.
This Rhododendron has pink flowers in spring.
This Rhododendron has pale yellow flowers in spring.
Robinia pseudoacacia 'Semperflorens' • 67 • false acacia
First introduced from France in 1874, it was said to be ever blooming in warmer climates, hence 'Semperflorens'.
A cultivar originating in Europe. Used along roads, in parks and public gardens. Sometimes used in forestry and biomass.
Tapiscia sinensis • 69 • false pistache
A rare tree, treatened by deforiatation and development.
Taxus chinensis • 70 • Chinese Yew
A yew tree from Asia, endangered in the wild dut to timber production.
Tetracentron sinense • 71 • Spur Leaf
Descoverd by Augustine Henry in Hubei, China. It was described by botanist Daniel Oliver in 1889 (Oliver 1889). It was later brought into cultivation in 1901 by Ernest Wilson who collected it on his first expedition to China for the Veitch Nurseries in London.
A weeping type of lime tree. A hybrid of small-leaved lime and large-leaved linden (Tilia cordata x Tilia platyphyllos).
Listen for bees in this large tree in July or August.
A grey leaved selection of large-leaved Linden tree.
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