O Canada

Sep 5, 2017 2 Comments by urbantreelover International

Species: Miscellaneous
Location: Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Canada

Canada is a wilderness. so it’s not surprising that its cities, namely Toronto, is full of trees. The problem is there are so many of trees here that they seem to blend into the cityscape, largely ignored, and definitely not labelled for curious treelovers like this blogger. But what the living take for granted, the dead do not.

I was pleasantly surprised when I just happened to walk into the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in mid-town Toronto and found myself amongst a forest of grand and majestic trees. And just when I thought it couldn’t get any better, it did.

Excuse the pun, but I thought I had left this reality plane and entered tree heaven. Because on each magnificent tree was a tiny label that displayed its common and Latin names.

The first one I came across was this majestic Horse Chestnut tree, complete with large spiky bulbous fruits

Spiky fruits

Horse Chestnut

Then came the maples. Little did I know that there are so many different types of maple trees, starting with:

The bold, rugged, large-leaved Red Maple

Red Maple

Scaly barks

The elegant, refined, emotive Silver Maple

Silver Maple

Fine lines on the bark

unnatural symmetry

Canopy

crown

The understated, subdued Sugar Maple

Sugar Maple

Traditional layered bark

Nice full canopy

The almost smooth barked Norway Maple

Norway Maple

Relatively smoothly ridged trunk

Large leaves

Finally, the colourful Japanese Maples

Colourful foliage

Bright imports from the East

Among the spectacular settings for the residents included the quiet sitting area with its own bench under the fruiting Doldo Crab tree.

Red fruits

Eternal rest

Words of wisdom

…and the two ancient venerable Weeping Willow resting atop an incline, one with its massive trunk hidden by a magnificent veil of flowing branches and spritely leaves, and its partner, growing nearby, less mysterious, but no less impressive.