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More than five million trees share space with New York's skyscrapers, their roots reaching toward the subway. In every borough amazing trees flourish: Brooklyn has its Camperdown elms in Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery, and of course the ailanthus, the tree that grows in Brooklyn. The Bronx has a rare blue ash at the New York Botanical Garden; Queens offers a tulip tree that may be the tallest in the city. Staten Island has the only natural stand of hackberries in the city, and there are hundreds of varied pine trees in the Arthur Ross Pinetum north of the Great Lawn at West 85th Street in Central Park.
Posted by on September 13, 2002 2:53 PM | Permalink
