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Cambridge Tree Locator: Pr-Py
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.
| Prunus sp. (Hybrid Flowering Cherries) | PAc | There is a ‘Accolade’ on Lammas Land S of the tennis courts; there are many Seagull Cherries (‘Umineko’) outside Selwyn College and the Selwyn Diamond in Grange Road [map] |
| Prunus avium (Wild Cherry) | WC D | Very common in gardens and elsewhere; e.g. one S of the bowling green on Lammas Land, which also has a large number of Double Geans (‘Plena’) near the SW corner; there are also some larger Double Geans by the S boundary of Mill Road Cemetery |
| Prunus cerasifera (Myrobalan Plum) | MP PP PN MH | There is a type tree on Christ's Pieces behind Drummer Street Bus Station, and two in St Botolphs Churchyard bordering Botolph Street [map]; far more common are Pissard's Plum (‘Pissardii’) (and the very similar ‘Nigra’) with several trees on Lammas Land and a couple on the N bank of the Cam across from Jesus Green; Lammas Land also has some ‘Hessei’ around the tennis courts |
| Prunus dulcis (Almond) | Alm | A few small trees on streets, etc, e.g. behind St Clements in the City Centre |
| Prunus laurocerasus (Cherry Laurel) | La | Ubiquitous as a hedge, but also seen as a tree, e.g. along the W side of Lammas Land |
| Prunus lusitanica (Portuguese Laurel) | Common as a hedge, sometimes as a small tree, e.g. on the W side of the bend in Harvey Goodwin Avenue [map] | |
| Prunus maackii (Manchurian Cherry) | Four street trees on Greystoke Road in Queen Edith's [map] | |
| Prunus padus (Bird Cherry) | BC | A type tree on the bend of Queens' Road opposite the back of St Johns College [map]; there is a fine avenue of ‘Watereri’ on Jesus Green; there are a number of the ‘Colorata’ cultivar near the SW corner of Histon Road Recreation Ground [map] |
| Prunus sargentii (Sargent's Cherry) | SC SCF | There are type and fastigiate forms in Alexandra Gardens; there is a nice type tree at the junction of Humberstone Road with Elizabeth Way [map] |
| Prunus schmittii (Schmitt's Cherry) | A common and rather ugly street tree: there are two fair-sized trees outside Chamberlin Court at the N corner of the junction of Westfield Road and Benson Street [map] | |
| Prunus serrula (Tibetan Cherry) | TC | A medium-sized tree towards the S corner of Alexandra Gardens |
| Prunus serrulata (Japanese Flowering Cherries) | Am PK GWC | A large number of cultivars, which generally have to be caught flowering to be identified reliably: the fastigiate ‘Amanogawa’ is a common garden form (there is one in Trinity Lane in the City Centre); ‘Kanzan’ is very common, e.g. in St John's grounds opposite the end of Thompson's Lane in the City Centre; there are Cheal's Weeping Cherry (‘Kiku-shidare-zakura’) on the S side of Milton Road just E of the Gilbert Road junction [map] (which have had to be pruned so much on the roadward side that they no longer weep!); there are several fine ‘Shirofugen’ and one ‘Ukon’ at the junctions of Rawlyn and Norton Close with Barnwell Road [map]; there is a superb Great White Cherry (‘Tai-Haku’) at the E corner of the bowling green in Alexandra Gardens, another by the tennis courts on Jesus Green, and several outside Selwyn College on Grange Road [map]. |
| Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn) | Common on scrubland: there are many along Cherry Hinton Brook E of Burnside [map] | |
| Prunus x subhirtella (Winter Cherry) | Extremely common, usually as ‘Autumnalis’, and conspicuous with its winter flowering: the three trees in St John's College grounds by Bridge Street in the City Centre marked YC are actually Winter Cherries | |
| Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglas Fir) | An important forestry tree in Thetford Forest; there is a specimen of the glauca form on the W side of Histon Road, near to the footpath across NIAB [map] | |
| Pterocarya fraxinifolia (Caucasian Wingnut) | CW | A medium-sized tree towards the NE corner of Christ's Pieces; several trees behind the Engineering Dept on Coe Fen. There is a huge tree/clump in the Botanic Gardens near the Bateman Street entrance |
| Pterocarya rehderiana (Hybrid Wingnut) | HW | A magnificent tree just inside the entrance to Christ's College Master's Lodge in Hobson Street in the City Centre |
| Pyrus calleryana (Callery Pear) | In its fastigiate form as ‘Chanticleer’, a common street tree: there is one at the far end of Rackham Close off Histon Road [map] conveniently beside a Pillar Apple for easy comparison | |
| Pyrus communis (Common Pear) | Pe | A lovely gnarled tree in the wild triangle beside Portugal Place in the City Centre |
| Pyrus salicifolia (Willow-leaved Pear) | A common garden tree or bush: there is a fair-sized one on the E side of Hurst Park Avenue, just N of Milton Road [map] |