Sorbus x thuringiaca The bark alone is shown here. The actual tree is easily located in the Park beside the Pagoda, by North Carriage Drive. It is the bark in winter…

Cedrus Libani This tree was planted in the Park on 21st November 1993 to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Independence of Lebanon. There was an hour-long ceremony attended by…

The Park has long had a Cherry Tree Avenue, although the trees suffered from disease around the millennium.imageThanks to the generosity of the governor of Nara province in Japan, and…

Ligustrum lucidum This tree is one of the best hardy evergreens. The photograph shows a particularly fine specimen by one of the entrances to the Wilderness reserve. It is known…

Alnus glutinosa This is also called the Black Alder or Howler. A native tree, it has been with us a long time. It has grown in Britain beside water since…

Aesculus hippocastanum This elegant group of Horse Chestnuts are by the entrance to the Wilderness Reserve. These are Conker trees and too familiar to dwell on. There are a great…

Metasequoia glyptostroboides The foreground of this picture near the grotto, are a group of Dawn Redwoods and in the background a group of their close relatives, the Swamp Cypresses. They…

Robinia pseudoacacia Also known as Black Locust, Locust tree and Acacia this tree has a confusing set of names. The leaves look like those of a true acacia hence that…

Carpinus betulus fatigiata Also known as Pyrimidal Honbeam This is the fastigiate (i.e. upward pointing branches) form of the common Hornbeam, already described earlier in this series of articles on…

In November 1938 the Grace Darling League planted the tree to commemorate the centenary of her bravery when at 7 in the morning of 7th September 1838 she rowed with…

Caprinus Betulinus This tree is at the edge of the North Carriage Drive near the tennis courts. It is a native British species found in the south-east below a line…

arbutus x andrachnoides This tree is one of the treasures of the Park, and can be found near the south west corner of Ladies Pond. This hybrid is regarded as the…

When two, or more, trees grow into one another the process is called inosculation. There is a very good example of this on the north side of the Cascades.

Sophora Japonicapendula This uncommon tree is found at the corner of the Meadow Reserve facing the tennis courts. It is not a native of Japan as its name suggests, but…

Platanus x hispanica By far the most populous tree in Battersea Park, it lines the carriageways and the Central Avenue.

Ginkgo Bilboa The tree got its common name due to the similarity of its leaf to the maidenhair fern. The similarity doesn’t end there. It is a single species in…

Formerly Acacia Walk was transformed into Maple Leaf Walk, in 2007, thanks to the Friends of Battersea Park and the people of Canada. When the Friends learned that the old…

Aracaria araucana This tree is near the entrance to the Old English garden on North Carriage Drive. It is still a small young specimen but may live for a hundred…

Liquidambar orientalis This is one of the greatest rarities in the Park. It can be found at the corner of North Carriage Drive and the path leading down to the old aviary…

The Persian Ironwood forms a centrepiece to the Winter Garden

Quercus palustris This fine american oak is one of the best trees in the Park for autumn colour. At this time the leaves go yellow, then orange, ending in a…

Taxodium ascendens Similar to the Swamp Cypress, but with leaves that point upwards. An example of this tree can be found between the bandstand and the fountains, … not near…

A semi-circle of Pride of India trees, Koelreuteria paniculata, was planted near West Carriage Drive in 1997 to commemorate fifty years since Indian Independence.

Aesculus carnea The row of Red Horse Chestnuts along the riverside is one of the most familiar sites in the Park. They are to be removed in the restoration and…

Acer rubrum “Red Sunset” This is the tree that makes up our new avenue in the Park. The Red Maple, which tends to have three lobes on its leaf, is the…

Quercus rubra This tree is found at the western end of Acacia Walk beside the hut as shown. It is a large tree with equally large leaves, which can be…

Sorbus rehderiana The tree pictured is quite close to the bandstand in the centre of the Park. The photograph was taken shortly after it was planted several years ago. It…

This tree is located at the north end of the Sub Tropical Garden.

Taxodium distichumIn The Swamp Cypress was named before other redwoods were even discovered and at the time incorrectly called a cypress. In actual fact they are both redwoods. More confusingly…

Quercus cerris Also known as Wainscot Oak This is a familiar oak around London and a long row of trees border the car park near Albert Bridge Gate. It is relatively…

Fraxinus excelsior pendula This weeping form of the common wild ash is created by grafting weeping branches on to the cut stem of a common ash, already cut to the…

Betula Pendula `youngii This tree is a familiar sight in the Park, in the area where the Zoo borders the herb garden. Here this small tree seems to have grown…

Ulmus glabra var pendula The tree shown here is beside the river near Chelsea Bridge gate. It is easily recognised by its weeping habit and bright green bunches of seeds…

Aesculus flava Also known as Sweet Buckeye Buckeyes are the American equivalent of our Horse Chestnuts. They were called buckeyes by the early American settlers as the conker-like seeds look like the…