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After Sandy NYC Parks and other tree experts looked at what was happening to our trees. They were surprised by which trees lived and died. From their observations the following list has been made of trees that have a better chance of surviving a 100-year storm and the daily salt air.
Approved Trees for NYC Waterfront
Common Name
- Hedge Maple
- Evelyn Hedge Maple
- Metro Gold Hedge Maple
- Flame Amur Maple
- Ruby Slippers Amur Maple
- Red Sunset Maple
- Duraheat River Birch
- Heritage River Birch
- Columnar European Hornbeam
- Hackberry
- Magnifica Hackberry
- Oklahoma Redbud
- Crimson Cloud Hawthorn
- Thornless Hawthorn
- Lavellus Hawthorn
- Washington Hawthorn
- Winter King Hawthorn
- Yoshino Cryptomeria
- Hardy Rubber Tree
- Autumn Gold Ginkgo
- Magyar Ginkgo
- Princeton Sentry Ginkgo
- Shademaster Honeylocust
- Halka Honeylocust
- Imperial Honeylocust
- Skyline Honeylocust
- Kentucky Coffeetree
- Espresso Coffeetree
- Prairie Titan Coffeetree
- Blue Hetzi Juniper
- Eastern Red Cedar
- Golden Rain Tree
- Columnar Golden Rain Tree
- Rose Lanterns Golden Rain tree
- Muskogee Crepemyrtle
- Amur Maackia
- Starburst Maackia
- Crabapple
- Dawn Redwood
- Gold Rush Dawn Redwood
- Blackgum
- Forum Blackgum
- Red Rage Blackgum
- Sawtooth Oak
- Swamp White Oak
- Bur Oak
- Chinkapin Oak
- Willow Oak
- English Oak
- Princeton Upright Sophora
- Regent Sophora
- China Snow Lilac
- Japanese Tree Lilac
- Ivory Silk Lilac
- Nutans Baldcypress
- Baldcypress
- Shawnee Brave Baldcypress
- Accolade Elm
- Princeton American Elm
- Valley Forge American Elm
- Fronteir Elm
- Jeffeson Elm
- Triumph Elm
- New Harmony Elm
- New Horizon Elm
- Chinese Elm
- Allee Chinese Elm
- Bosque Chinese Elm
- Dynasty Elm
- Patriot Elm
- Pioneer Elm
- Mushashino Zelkova
- Green Vase Zelkova
- Village Green Zelkova
- Variagated Zelkova
- Wireless Zelkova
Species
- Acer campestre
- Acer campestre ‘Evelyn’
- Acer campestre ‘Metro Gold’
- Acer ginnala ‘Flame’
- Acer ginnala ‘Ruby Slippers’
- Acer rubrum ‘Red Sunset’
- Betula nigra ‘Duraheat’
- Betula nigra ‘Heritage’
- Carpinus betulus ‘Fastigiata’
- Celtis occidentalis
- Celtis occidentalis ‘Magnifica’
- Cercis reniformis ‘Oklahoma’
- Crataegus ‘Crimson Cloud’
- Crataegus crusgalli var. inermis
- Crataegus ‘Lavellus’
- Crataegus phaenopyrum ‘Washington’
- Crataegus viridis ‘Winter King’
- Cryptomeria japonica ‘Yoshino’
- Eucommia ulmoides
- Ginkgo biloba ‘Autumn Gold’
- Ginkgo biloba ‘Magyar’
- Ginkgo biloba ‘Princeton Sentry’
- Gleditsia triacanthos var inermis ‘Shademaster’
- Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis ‘Halka’
- Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis ‘Imperial’
- Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis ‘Skyline’
- Gymnocladus dioicus
- Gymnocladus dioicus ‘Espresso’
- Gymnocladus dioicus ‘Prairie Titan’
- Juniperus chinensis ‘Hetzi’
- Juniperus virginiana
- Koelreuteria paniculata
- Koelreuteria paniculata ‘Fastigiata’
- Koelreuteria paniculata ‘Rose Lanterns’
- Lagerstroemia indica ‘Muskogee’
- Maackia amurensis
- Maackia amurensis ‘Starburst’
- Malus cultivars
- Metasequoia glyptostroboides
- Metasequoia glyptostroboides ‘Gold Rush’
- Nyssa sylvatica
- Nyssa sylvatica ‘Forum’
- Nyssa sylvatica ‘Red Rage’
- Quercus acutissima
- Quercus bicolor
- Quercus macrocarpa
- Quercus muhelnbergia
- Quercus phellos
- Quercus robur
- Styphnolobium japonicum ‘Princeton Upright’
- Styphnolobium japonicum ‘Regent’
- Syringa ‘China Snow’
- Syringa reticulata
- Syringa reticulata ‘Ivory Silk’
- Taxodium ascedens ‘Nutans’
- Taxodium distichum
- Taxodium distichum ‘Shawnee Brave’
- Ulmus ‘Accolade’
- Ulmus americana ‘Princeton’
- Ulmus americana ‘Valley Forge’
- Ulmus ‘Frontier’
- Ulmus ‘Jefferson’
- Ulmus ‘Morton Glossy’
- Ulmus ‘New Harmony’
- Ulmus ‘New Horizon’
- Ulmus parvifolia
- Ulmus parvifolia ‘Allee’
- Ulmus parvifolia ‘Bosque’
- Ulmus parvifolia ‘Dynasty’
- Ulmus ‘Patriot’
- Ulmus ‘Pioneer’
- Zelkova serrata ‘Mushashino’
- Zelkova serrata ‘Green Vase’
- Zelkova serrata ‘Village Green’
- Zelkova serrata ‘Variegata’
- Zelkova serrata ‘Wireless’