Notable Trees at The University of Reading

Location and Species

Description/Notes

Outside Humanities and social sciences

Chinese Walnut

A rare species from central China.

Long pinnate leaves fruits large and sticky

Whiteknights House Lawn

Pond Cypress

The Pond Cypress is Slower growing and more conic than T. distichum

Although it is quite at home in standing water it seems happy enough in this dry site

Whiteknights House Lawn

Ginkgo biloba

Maidenhair Tree

Extremely useful as an urban tree tolerant of hot dry conditions.

One of the only species to survive the bombing of Hiroshima

Whiteknights House Lawn

Nyssa sylvatica

Tupelo

Spectacular autumn colour but slow growing.

Nyssa sinensis is also a fine tree and has superior summer foliage. A small specimen is located east of Whiteknights House

Whiteknights House Lawn

Liquidambar styraciflua

Sweet Gum

An important timber tree in its native North America.

A good garden tree for autumn colour but eventually large

Whiteknights House Lawn

Kentucky Coffee Tree

Fantastic foliage! Huge bi-pinnate deciduous laves up to 1m long.

Now flowering reliably.

Interesting bark.

A Rare tree

Whiteknights House Lawn

Cretan Maple

One of the best specimens in the country.

Always something of interest flowers fruit and foliage just about evergreen

Whiteknights House Lawn

Mongolian Lime

Supposedly a small (10m) tree but this 15 year old specimen is already rapidly approaching this.

A very attractive tree in flower and in autumn.

Whiteknights House Lawn

Henry’s Lime

This Chinese species is compact with good potential for garden use.

Distinctive bristle tipped leaves

Outside Library

Swamp Cypress

One of the best specimens in the country and one of the only mature specimens on campus which has not suffered storm damage.

Happily growing on this dry site

Excellent autumn colour especially covered in haw frost