Trees of Seattle has the following misidentifications and incorrect addresses. Mere typographical errors are not listed. Nor are miscellaneous updating of measurements and new data to improve the book -- an ongoing job. Anyone who seeks to obtain or contribute more information is welcome to contact me.
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p. xviii: Evergreen Park Cemetery's "Sargent" MAGNOLIA is a Dawson MAGNOLIA -- see page 431.
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p. 3: the "Weeping ALMOND TREE" is a Weeping Cherry PLUM.
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p. 19: the 6 "Fastigiate European BEECHES" at St Anne Church are interplanted not with Eastern DOGWOODS, but with Hybrid Pacific DOGWOODS -- see p. 89.
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p. 32: the "Southern CATALPA" trees at 2nd Avenue W, and at the U.W.'s Benson Hall, are hybrid CATALPAS.
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p. 41: the "CEDARS of Lebanon" at Mt Baker Park, and at North Queen Anne School, are Atlas CEDARS. As are two at the U.W. campus, west of the overpass to the Health Sciences complex.
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p. 49: the Whitcomb CHERRY trees at the U.W. are north of More Hall. Moreover, study has proved that the clones 'Rosea' and 'Whitcombii' are not identical.
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p. 58: the Korean Hill-CHERRY tree at Interlaken Park is not with a smaller "Sargent CHERRY," but with a Japanese Hill-CHERRY (Prunus jamasakura). Likewise some of the so-called "Sargent CHERRIES" at Ravenna Park are Japanese Hill-CHERRIES.
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p. 61: the Arboretum's largest so-called "Sargent CHERRY" is a Japanese Hill-CHERRY.
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p. 65: the Chinese CHESTNUT TREE is native in China and Korea only, not also in Japan.
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p. 76: the "variegated Lawson CYPRESSES" at Mt Baker Park are variegated Alaska CEDARS -- an extremely rare find!
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p. 87: the 'First Lady' DOGWOOD is not a mere white-flowered tree but is variegated like the 'Rainbow' DOGWOOD.
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p. 99: Virtually all of the EMPRESS TREES listed are of the cultivar 'Lilacina' but at Kubota Gardens Park one can see 7 typical specimens. The cultivar is prized because it is superior.
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p. 113: the "Noble FIR" at 3610 NE 48th St. is a Pacific Silver FIR.
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p. 118: the "broad female GINKGO" in the alley is between E McGraw and E Lynn (not E Calhoun) streets.
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p. 123: the "Celtis of undetermined identity" at the Locks is Celtis reticulata.
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p. 126: the Duwamish Head (Alki Beach Park) "Cockspur HAWTHORNS" number 5, while 13 "Broadleaf Cockspur HAWTHORNS" outnumber them.
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p. 130: the 6 "single dark pink HAWTHORN" street-trees on the west side of 15th Ave NE, north of NE 42nd St., are really single red ones (cv. 'Punicea') as at Green Lake. A real single dark pink ('Bicolor') is at 607 18th Ave E.
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p. 130: the "double very pale pink HAWTHORN" ('Masekii') on the northwest corner of 16th Ave E & E Harrison St., was really a double white fading to pink one (cv. 'Plena') and in any case was cut down in November 2000.
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p. 132: the Arboretum's "Siberian HAWTHORN" in B9 is really an Altai Mountain HAWTHORN (C. altaica).
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p. 137: the U.W.'s "Shagbark HICKORY" NE of Denny Hall is really a Red HICKORY (C. ovalis).
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p. 152: the variegated "Eastern Red Cedar (JUNIPERS)" at 2305 N 44th Street and on Midvale Avenue N, are really variegated Chinese JUNIPERS.
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p. 158: one Golden LARCH, not two, is on Midvale Ave N -- the other, bigger tree is a Japanese LARCH.
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p. 184: the "pink-flowered Star MAGNOLIA" at the locks bed #322 is a 'Leonard Messel' MAGNOLIA.
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p. 192: the "Full Moon MAPLE" at Volunteer Park is a 'Aureum' Shirasawa MAPLE -- see p. 198.
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p. 204: the Tatarian MAPLES in Seattle have bright yellow, not dark red, fall color, and are not cv. 'Rubrum'.
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p. 209: S. x Arnoldiana should read S. x arnoldiana because the tree was named after the Arnold Arboretum, not after a particular person.
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p. 216: the "Red MULBERRY TREE" on E Lynn St, was actually a Black MULBERRY TREE (M. nigra) but was cut down. The U.W. Medicinal Herb Garden specimen died. No Red MULBERRY TREES are known currently in Seattle, but a few very young Black MULBERRY TREES exist.
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p. 233: the "Mongolian OAK" at the locks bed #20 is not that species, but what it is remains unknown.
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p. 254: the Fraser PHOTINIA street-trees on 35th Ave NE are north of NE 55th (not 65th) St.
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p. 265: the "Japanese Red PINE" at the Rainier Vista housing development is a Scots PINE -- see page 276.
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p. 278: the "Sugar PINE" at the U.W. Friendship Grove is a Limber PINE -- see page 269.
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p. 290: the following "Trailblazer PLUMS" are "Spencer Hollywood PLUM" specimens (see p. 286): 8225 17th Ave NE; 4154 42nd Ave NE; 5721 27th Ave NE; 44th Ave S south of S Spencer St.
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p. 304: in the list of QUINCE TREE cultivars, 'Apple' is a synonym of 'Orange'.
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p. 323: the Oriental SPRUCE on 18th Avenue is between Pike and Pine streets.
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p. 325: the Siskiyou SPRUCE is at 815 (not 115) NW 116th St.
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p. 326: the Black Hills version of the White SPRUCE is the State Tree of South Dakota, not North Dakota.
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p. 356: the Madrona Park "Hybrid White WILLOW" is really Seattle's only large old example of Globe WILLOW (Salix Matsudana 'Umbraculifera').
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p. 359: the Irish YEW is at 16th (not 15th) Ave E & E Aloha St.
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p. 396: the "White BIRCH" at the locks bed #113A is a Downy BIRCH -- see page 23.
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p. 399: the "pink-flowered Star MAGNOLIA" at the locks bed #322 is a 'Leonard Messel' MAGNOLIA -- see page 181.
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