Carlisle S. Page Arboretum
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The Carlisle S. Page Arboretum (80 acres) is an arboretum
located within Historic Elmwood Cemetery, 824 South Dudley Street, Memphis, Tennessee
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The arboretum contains some 800 trees (of which 400 are labeled), representing 63 species. According to the cemetery's owners, eight of these are National Champion Trees, and two are State Champion Trees. Ornamental trees include Chinese fringe tree (Chionanthus
retusus), crape-myrtle
, dogwood
, magnolia
, deciduous holly
, fruit
trees, etc.
Arboretum
An arboretum in a narrow sense is a collection of trees only. Related collections include a fruticetum , and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly, today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study...
located within Historic Elmwood Cemetery, 824 South Dudley Street, Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
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The arboretum contains some 800 trees (of which 400 are labeled), representing 63 species. According to the cemetery's owners, eight of these are National Champion Trees, and two are State Champion Trees. Ornamental trees include Chinese fringe tree (Chionanthus
Chionanthus
Chionanthus is a genus of about 80 species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae.The genus has a wide distribution primarily in the tropics and subtropics, but with two species extending north into temperate regions, one in eastern Asia and one in eastern North America...
retusus), crape-myrtle
Crape-myrtle
Lagerstroemia , commonly known as Crape myrtle or Crepe myrtle, is a genus of around 50 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs native to the Indian subcontinent, southeast Asia, northern Australia and parts of Oceania, cultivated in warmer climates around the world. It is a member of...
, dogwood
Dogwood
The genus Cornus is a group of about 30-60 species of woody plants in the family Cornaceae, commonly known as dogwoods. Most dogwoods are deciduous trees or shrubs, but a few species are nearly herbaceous perennial subshrubs, and a few of the woody species are evergreen...
, magnolia
Magnolia
Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae. It is named after French botanist Pierre Magnol....
, deciduous holly
Holly
Ilex) is a genus of 400 to 600 species of flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only living genus in that family. The species are evergreen and deciduous trees, shrubs, and climbers from tropics to temperate zones world wide....
, fruit
Fruit
In broad terms, a fruit is a structure of a plant that contains its seeds.The term has different meanings dependent on context. In non-technical usage, such as food preparation, fruit normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of certain plants that are sweet and edible in the raw state,...
trees, etc.