By Ella Weil :: Heritage Tree # 324 Arbutus menziesii – Madrone 8018 SE Bush St Heritage tree #324 lives at 8018 SE Bush street, on the border between South Tabor and Foster-Powell neighborhoods. Pat McDaniel found the seedling in 1957 while camping as a child in the Olympic Peninsula and brought it home withContinue Reading Heritage Tree #324 | Foster-Powell Madrone
By Annie Amsden :: Aesculus hippocastanum — Common horsechestnut 8710 N Willamette Blvd The Horse Chestnut tree on the corner of North Alta and Willamette Boulevard stands 65 feet tall and casts shadows onto the sidewalk below it. The tree, approximately 150 years old, witnessed the expansion of North Portland. Prior to European settlement in theContinue Reading Heritage Tree #322 | St. Johns’ Horse Chestnut
By Carolee Harrison :: Quercus garryana — Oregon white oak 5559 SE 109th Ave Portland’s 272nd Heritage Tree, an Oregon white oak, is a street tree that shades a residential block in the Lents neighborhood. It also stands on the edge of Johnson Creek’s historic floodplain, where suburban housing, industrial sites, and protected public landsContinue Reading Heritage Tree #272 | Lents’ Oregon White Oak
By Madelyn Miller :: Heritage Tree #260 Pseudotsuga menziesii – Douglas-fir Powell Butte Nature Park | Cedar Grove Trail Before being purchased by City of Portland in 1925, the primary users of what’s now Powell Butte Nature Park were a handful of wayward cows from the adjacent Meadowland Dairy and the occasional picnicking family.Continue Reading Heritage Tree #260 | Powell Butte’s Old Growth Douglas Fir
By John Stedman :: Juglans cinerea — Butternut 9009 N Foss Ave Heritage Tree #235 is a Butternut on the grounds of the Charles Jordan Community Center in North Portland’s Portsmouth neighborhood. The tree towers over the single story wing of the community center with its fifty-four foot height and sixty-five foot spread. Its gnarledContinue Reading Heritage Tree #235 | Charles Jordan Community Center’s Butternut Tree
By Nick Truman :: Heritage Tree # 80-88 Pterocarya fraxinifolia – Caucasian wingnut 80 2737 NE 15th Ave 81 2738 NE 15th Ave 82 2739 NE 15th Ave 83 2740 NE 15th Ave 84 2741 NE 15th Ave 85 1408 NE Knott 86 1409 NE Knott 87 1410 NE Knott 88 1411 NE Knott OnContinue Reading Heritage Trees #80-88 | Knott Street Caucasian Wingnuts
By JoAnne Hermens :: Heritage Tree # 31 Juglans nigra – Black walnut 7703 SE Martins In Southeast Portland amidst modest houses with pleasant green yards, stands a 90 foot tall and 90 foot wide black walnut tree. An aerial view shows its canopy reaching across 77th Avenue, away from the two story white woodenContinue Reading Heritage Tree #31 | Black Walnut