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Siberian Elm at Fort Tryon Park

Borough: Manhattan
Community Board: 12
Designated: 2024

Tree Details

Species: Siberian elm (Ulmus pumila)
Trunk Diameter 29 Inches

This Siberian elm is a central focus of Fort Tryon Park's magical Heather Garden, a three-acre garden that changes with the seasons with colorful annual plants and dozens of varieties of heaths and heathers. From the east of this tree, observers can look from under its canopy across the Hudson River to the Palisades. At sunset, this view is one of the most striking in all of New York City.

Location

Fort Tryon Park
Southern entrance of Heather Garden, west side of Center Path

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