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Cambridge Tree Locator: Q-R
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.
| Quercus cerris (Turkey Oak) | TO | Several young trees in the middle of Christ's Pieces; two large trees at the kink in Wulfstan Way [map] |
| Quercus coccinea (Scarlet Oak) | SO | Several young trees of the ‘Splendens’ cultivar on the S side of Lammas Land |
| Quercus ilex (Holm Oak) | HO | Several fine trees in Histon Road Cemetery; a large tree on the NE corner of the junction of Madingley Road with Lady Margaret Road [map]; a particularly imposing tree just N of the junction of Church Lane with Cambridge Road in Girton [map] |
| Quercus petraea (Sessile Oak) | Uncommon in Cambridge: there are three fairly young trees 50-100m N of King's College back gate beside Queens' Road [map] | |
| Quercus robur (English Oak) | O | Several smallish ones on Jesus Green; there are many larger trees down the W side of Trumpington Road from Fen Causeway southward [map]; the fastigiate form f.fastigiata (Cypress Oak) is uncommon, but there is one beside Huntingdon Road, 50m W of Buckingham Road [map], and young street trees along the S side of Milton Road opposite the shops just before Arbury Road [map] |
| Rhus typhina (Stag's-horn Sumach) | Frequent as a garden tree, e.g. on the W side of Stretten Avenue near the S end [map]; the cut-leaved form ‘Dissecta’ is also found, e.g. on the W side of Brampton Road about halfway up [map] | |
| Robinia pseudoacacia (False Acacia) | FA | Common everywhere, especially on Lammas Land; the golden ‘Frisia’ cultivar is also common - there are three along the S side of the tennis courts on Christ's Pieces; there is a row of Mop-head Robinia (‘Umbraculifera’) along the E side of River Lane towards the N end [map] |