The Arboretum Trust

Kew at Castle Howard

The Collection in Ray Wood

 
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The sources of the Arboretum’s plants fall into three main groups.

Firstly the early plantings of rare and interesting trees and shrubs already in cultivation, often from historically important original introductions and mostly propagated by cuttings or grafting.

Then there are the many attractive plants, such as the very red, Red Maple, Acer rubrum ‘October Glory’ that have been added for their aesthetic appeal,

Finally the bulk are field expedition seed raised plants. These are the most scientifically valuable for use in research and genetic conservation.These have been greatly added to by the Kew and Wakehurst nurseries, but amongst other sources we are particularly indebted to one of our Benefactors, Lord Howick, for his continuing donations, now amounting to more than 630 expedition-sourced young plants, from his arboretum’s nursery at Howick.

All of the collection is documented on our Plant Records Database, this contains a vast amount of information for each individual plant, the links below point to extracts from the database of live plants. For each plant the following information is shown:

  Accession Number This unique number identifies the plant (or group of plants)
  Family  
  Plant Name This is a concatenation of the genus, species, variety or cultivar
  Common Name The majority of our plants are rare or not well known, so do not have a common name
  Collector Code Identies the Collector of the plant. Click Here for the list of Donors/Collectors
  Collector Number  
  Donor Code Identies the Donor of the plant. Click Here for the list of Donors/Collectors
  Provenance N - Plants raised from material collected in the wild
  Location Identifies the area in the arboretum where the plant is to be found
  Number of Plants Where plants have been accessioned as a group.
  Planting Year Year planted out.
  Date last stock checked By our planr records officer. A lack of date indicates that the plant has not been verified.
 
 
 

 

     

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