3 - Emerging Urban Species

Acer miyabei

Miyabe maple

(lit. “Miyabe’s maple” [Japanese botanist])

Aesculus glabra

Ohio buckeye

(lit. “Smooth horse chestnut”)

Catalpa speciosa

catalpa (lit. “showy catalpa” [catalpa means “winged head” in Muscogee, referring to the winged seed heads])

Celtis occidentalis

hackberry

(lit. “Western nettle tree” due to nettle-like leaves)

Gingko biloba

gingko

(lit. “two-lobed gingko”)

Gymnocladus dioicus

Kentucky coffee tree

(lit. “naked branch, two genders”)

Liriodendron tulipifera

tulip poplar

(lit. “Lily tree with tulip flowers'“)

Nyssa sylvatica

tupelo

(lit. water nymph of the woods)

[common name “tupelo” comes from Muscogee “swamp tree”]

Platanus occidentalis

sycamore

(lit.

Platanus x acerfolia

London plane tree

Taxodium distichum

bald cypress