Having many forms, Japanese maple make excellent ornamental trees. Bloodgood is a particularly hardy variety that produces wine red foliage throughout the growing season. Fall color is crimson.

2. LITTTLELEAF LINDEN - Tilia cordata

This tree has a thick cover of dark green leaves. Makes an excellent street tree that can also be pruned into hedges. The Europeans tend to use the tree much more as a hedge than Americans.

3. KATSURAtree - Cercidiphylum, japonicum

This 40 to 60 foot tree makes an excellent specimen. In the spring its leaves emerge a beautiful reddish purple and gradually change to bluish green in summer. Fall colors vary from yellow to apricot. The bark on these older trees is slightly shaggy and quite handsome.

4. LAVALLE HAWTHORN - Crataegus lavallei

Lavalle hawthorn is a small dense oval headed ornamental tree growing 15 to 30 feet tall. This hybrid species arose at several gardens and was first described in 1880.

5. RED JEWEL CRABAPPLE - Malus 'Red Jewel'

This medium sized crab produces abundant white flowers in the spring. Its bright cherry red fruit adds color to the winter landscape well into December. The fruit color becomes darker in cold weather.

6. ARISTOCRAT PEAR - Pyrus calleryana 'Aristocrat'

This ornamental pear makes an excellent specimen or street tree. It bears white flowers in early spring, has dark green foliage in summer and last but not least a brilliant red fall color.

7. RIVERBIRCH - Betula nigra

Riverbirch graces the creekbanks and lowlands of the southeastern US. A very handsome specimen tree for estates, parks and golf courses it is particularly well suited for wet areas. The fluttering leaves and unique peeling bark make it a favorite for landscape plantings.

8. RED MAPLE - Acer rubrum

Red maple is commonly found throughout the eastern United States and into Canada. This tree seeds in readily and grows rapidly. It is a favored shade and ornamental tree with a pleasant form and brilliant fall color.

9. WINTERKING HAWTHORN - Crataegus viridis var. inermis

This hawthorn is a vigorous grower with silver gray bark, glossy foliage and white flowers in June. The bright red fruit attract birds and persist on the tree till winter. Can grow to 25 feet.

10. ZUMI CRABAPPLE - Malus sieboldii var. 'Zumi'

Sometime called the 'redbud crab', this crabapple bears single pink buds that open to white. The red fruit make it an attractive specimen well into winter.

11. COMMON APPLE

This tree and the others to the northwest are part of an apple orchard that was planted more than 60 years ago. Although the apples are not formally harvested many trees still bear fruit. Many Miami students have eaten the fruit from these trees.

12. ENGLISH OAK - Quercus robur

Truffle oak is widely planted in Europe. The species can reach a height of up to 100 feet. It makes an excellent tree for parks and other large areas.

13. AUSTRIAN PINE - Pinus nigra

Austrian pine is an adaptable species with very stiff needles and a dark green color. It makes an excellent screen or ornamental specimen in the landscape. This native of Europe graces roadsides, parks, cemeteries and campuses throughout the United States.

14. COMMON HORSECHESTNUT - Aesculus hippocastanum

The common horsechestnut is a large tree and can reach heights of up to 100 feet or more. This relative of the Buckeye is abundant through the eastern United States, virtually every campus has a horsechestnut. It is widely used in Europe in palace gardens and many parks throughout England.

15. BURR OAK- Quercus Macrocarpa

Burr Oak is native to the central U.S. It is a slow growing, stout tree typical of the Oak family. They reach 70-80' at maturity and can grow to over 100'.

16. WHITE ASH - Fraxinus americana

Because of its strength, moderate weight, and straight grain, the wood is perfect for baseball bats, oars, crutches, and long handled tools. There are other species of ash on campus but they are so similar that most people simply call them ash trees.

17. BLACK LOCUST - Robinia pseudoacacia

Black locust grows faster than many of its eastern forest companions. Its timber is used for making fence posts and railroad ties because of its resistance to rot. It re-sprouts from stumps so readily that it can quickly take over fence rows, fields and clearings.

18. CHESTNUT OAK - Quercus prinus

Rock oak is a medium sized tree reaching 60 to 70 feet in height. This is a tree of rocky places and natively is found on poor dry upland sites where it forms pure stands. The acorns are sweet tasting and relished by the gray squirrel, black bear, white-tailed deer and many other forms of wildlife.

19. PONDEROSA PINE - Pinus ponderosa

Western yellow pine is a valuable forest tree that in the wild can reach heights of over 200 feet. It is an important timber tree in the western states.

20. SILVER MAPLE - Acer saccherinum A native of eastern North America the silver maple can reach heights of 100 feet or more. In its native habitat, along streams, it withstands several weeks of standing water. The English consider the silver maple a tree of great beauty in habit and foliage.

21. SYCAMORE - Platanis occidentalis

American planetree is a large medium to fast growing tree. It naturally grows along stream beds. Its smooth cream colored inner bark and its size are its most striking characteristics.

22. HACKBERRY - Celtis occidentalis

This relative of the elm, with its warty bark grows well under adverse conditions. A variety of birds including robins, pheasants and grouse eat its fruit.

23. INDIAN MAGIC CRABAPPLE - Malus 'Indian Magic'

This crabapple has single, red buds that open to deep pink. Its small glossy red fruit changes to orange and persists on the tree through winter, making it a striking specimen throughout the year.

24. KENTUCKY COFFEEtree- Gymnocladus dioicus

The coffeetree bears stout twigs and large, feathery compound leaves up to 3 feet long. Pioneers roasted the seeds for imitation coffee.

25. HONEYLOCUST - Gleditsia tricanthos

Native to the central U.S. the honeylocust has filled a void left by the deaths of many street-side elms. It has a pleasing form and natural hardiness. Reproduction and dispersment are accomplished by means of a pod that drops from the tree in winter and can slide over the snow for great distances.

26. AMUR CORKtree - Phellodendron amurense

A medium headed shade tree of unique interest for bark which on old trunks is rigid and furrowed into a cork-like pattern. An excellent lawn and landscape tree that is unusually free of pests.

27. EASTERN WHITE PINE- Pinus Strobus

Mature height of 80-100'. A fast growing, soft wooded pine with long, soft, blue green needles. Highly ornamental, much grown as a Christmas tree.

28. CANADIAN HEMLOCK- Tsuga Canadensis

Its dense texture makes Canadian Hemlock a popular evergreen. It can be pruned as a hedge or allowed to grow to its full height. The bark from this tree was used by Native Americans to make a paste the would draw out venom and act as an antiseptic. This plant is in no way associated to the "hemlock' poison drunk by the philosopher Socrates.

29. FLOWERING DOGWOOD - Cornus florida

The aristocrat of native flowering trees. Flowering dogwood has ornamental appeal year round with excellent flower, summer and fall foliage, fruit and winter habit. Many consider it to be the best ornamental of all the natives growing in the United States.

30. ALLEGHENY SERVICEBERRY - Amelanchier laevis

The white flowers of the serviceberry are small but numerous, giving the tree a lacy appearance in early spring. The leaves may turn any shade of yellow or red in the fall.

31. SHELLBARK HICKORY - Carya lacinosa

Shellbark hickory can reach heights of up to 80 feet. The nut is sweet and edible. This hickory tends to inhabit wet bottomlands, even those that are covered with water for some time.

• For the map of Western Campus Tree Walk, click here.
• For a list of the trees on the Western Campus Tree Walk, click here.
• For the introduction of Tree Walk, please click here.