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Cambridge Tree Locator: Ab-Ae
Links in the third column are to maps displaying tree locations. Links in brackets are to Multimap ; normal links are to specific Cambridge tree maps, the second column containing the abbreviation(s) used for the tree on the map.
| Abies grandis (Grand Fir) | Cambridge is too dry and chalky for firs to grow well; however there are several Grand Firs around, including four on the edge of the fenced-off ground by Cameron Road, Arbury [map] | |
| Acacia dealbata (Mimosa) | A large tree on the W corner of the junction of Milton Road and King's Hedges Road [map]; another on the NW corner of the junction of De Freville Road and Hamilton Road [map] | |
| Acer campestre (Field Maple) | A common hedgerow tree; I am not aware of any particularly fine trees, although there are apparently some veteran trees bordering Cherry Hinton Recreation Ground [map] | |
| Acer capillipes (Red Snake-bark Maple) | There are a few small snake-barks in front gardens; recently several have been planted off Milton Road, with a Red Snake-bark in Chesterfield Road outside St George's Church [map], and others in the immediate neighbourhood including an Amur Maple (A.tataricum var.ginnala) and possibly a couple of Moosewood (A.pensylvanicum) | |
| Acer cappadocicum (Cappadocian Maple) | A youngish tree in Magdalene College on Bridge Street to the north of the City Centre; another on the W side of the Green Dragon footbridge in Chesterton, on the N bank of the Cam [map] | |
| Acer griseum (Paper-bark Maple) | A small tree by the river at the junction of Riverside and Priory Road [map] | |
| Acer negundo (Box Elder) | Youngish trees are fairly common, e.g. on the E side of Histon Road by the St Luke's School footpath [map] | |
| Acer palmatum (Smooth Japanese) | JM | Small trees are quite frequent in gardens |
| Acer platanoides (Norway Maple) | NM ND Np NMC | A common tree; the type, its variegated cultivar ‘Drummondii’, and its purple form are all to be found on Lammas Land. There is a fastigiate ‘Columnare’ outside St.Andrew the Great in the City Centre |
| Acer pseudoplatanus (Sycamore) | Frequent (and usually scruffy): a fine mature tree leans out from the Botanic Gardens onto Trumpington Road [map]; there is also a beautifully situated mature tree in front of St Luke's Church at the junction of Victoria Road and Harvey Goodwin Avenue [map] | |
| Acer rubrum (Red Maple) | A single young tree in the garden by the SE corner of the junction of Adams Road and Sylvester Road [map] | |
| Acer saccharinum (Silver Maple) | SM CSM | A popular street tree, e.g. on Park Street in the City Centre opposite the car park entrance; in Borrowdale just off Histon Road [map]; and also around the perimeter of Mount Pleasant House at the top of Castle Hill [map]. There are three examples of the cut-leaved form (f.laciniatum) at the SE corner of Lammas Land |
| Aesculus x carnea (Red Horse Chestnut) | RHC | Outnumbered by the ordinary horse chestnut; larger examples include three trees in the centre of Christ's Pieces and two on the N bank of the Cam across from Jesus Green |
| Aesculus hippocastaneum (Horse Chestnut) | HC | The mature tree outside King's College Chapel in the City Centre is Cambridge's most photographed tree; a fine avenue of much more accessible trees on Jesus Green and Midsummer Common flanks Victoria Avenue |
| Aesculus indica (Indian Horse Chestnut) | IHC | Just the one sapling in the middle of Christ's Pieces. There is a row of young trees outside the Waitrose car park in Bray's Lane, Ely [map] |