WING Project suggested Tree List

 

WING ~ Street Tree planting list for Newington Green area

 
 

Tree                                                                            Environmental assets

 
                       

Bird cherry – prunus padus                                       Supports birds, bees & insects; Edible fruit

Crab apple – malus sylvestris                                    Local; supports 11 species birds; 90+ insect species

                                                                                                                      
Field maple - acer campestre                                    Supports epiphytic lichens, range of insects

Gean (wild cherry) – prunus avium                                 Local; upports 11 Species birds; insects:                                                                                            Tortoishell butterfly;  Edible fruit
 
Hawthorn – crataegus monogyna                                 Local; 1 species birds; 149 insect species
 
Rowan – sorbus aurcuparia                                          Supports various birds; 28 species of insects
 
Serviceberry – amelanchier arborea                             Supports several moth species & birds: Edible fruit

                       
Service tree – prunus torminalis                                Supports several insect species & birds; Edible fruit

                                                                                 
Small-leaved lime – tillia cordata                              Supports 31 Species insects


Whitebeam – sorbus aria                                            Edible Fruit, supports birds           

 
 

Local trees are found on the Natural History Museum Postcode Plant Database:

 

Other data taken from LBI Hackney tree list and:

 
 

http://www.right-trees.org.uk/