Arboretum

KOELREUTERIA PANICULATA – GOLDEN RAIN TREE
QUERCUS RUBRA – OAK, NORTHERN RED
PRUNUS SPP. – CHERRY/PLUM SPP.
ULMUS RUBRA ‘PENDULA’ – ELM, SLIPPERY ‘PENDULA’
TSUGA CANADENSIS ‘PENDULA’ – HEMLOCK, EASTERN ‘PENDULA’
TILIA AMERICANA – LINDEN, AMERICAN
PINUS FLEXILIS – PINE, LIMBER
PICEA ORIENTALIS – SPRUCE, ORIENTAL
PRUNUS SEROTINA – CHERRY, BLACK
QUERCUS VELUTINA – OAK, BLACK

ABOUT THE WOODLAWN ARBORETUM

The Woodlawn Cemetery Arboretum features more than 500 species and cultivars of trees and shrubs, including an array of flowering, evergreen, and shade plantings originating from North America, Europe, and Asia. The Arboretum harbors 33 specimens remarkable simply for their size, each measuring five feet or more in diameter. These mature specimens include a massive white oak guarding the north edge of the Cemetery, a weeping European beech (Fagus sylvatica ‘Pendula’), an unusual fine-leaved cultivar of the same species, an American basswood (Tilia americana), and a black oak (Quercus velutina) that measures six feet across its trunk.

Level II Accreditation

In 2017, The Woodlawn Cemetery was awarded the Level II Accreditation by The ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program and The Morton Arboretum, for achieving particular standards of professional practices deemed important for arboreta and botanic gardens.

WOODLAWN’S ARBORETUM COLLECTION

The Arboretum also includes eight specimens recognized in the “Great Trees of New York City” program, among them a Japanese umbrella pine (Sciadopitys verticillata) and a native eastern white pine (Pinus strobus). The collection contains many other native and introduced trees of note, including an American elm (Ulmus americana) of 76 inches in diameter, among the largest of a species devastated across the country by Dutch elm disease, and a native tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) rising more than 125 feet.

Each tree in the Arboretum collection is trunk labeled and mapped for easy identification and public access. Open our tree map to follow our Tree Walk and learn more about each of our trees by clicking here.