Castlewellan Arboretum Index

Name: Picea smithiana Family: Pinaceae Species Origin: Himalaya Planting Date: 1881 Area: Walled Garden - Lower South Quarter  Photograph Date: 29/01/25 13:18

Name: Magnolia campbellii subsp. mollicomata Family: Magnoliaceae Planting Date: 1970s Area: Walled Garden - Lower North Quarter Accession no: 1970/LNQ-08/44689/FS  Photograph: 09/03/25 07:54

Notes: Mother of the 'Castlewellan Gold'. Pictured behind Eucryphia and to the side of Sequoiadendron Giganteum.

Notes: Fungi regularly appear around the tree circle including the birch bolete - Leccinum scabrum.

Notes: Propagates well from seed.

Name: Cercidiphyllum japonicum Family: Cercidiphyllaceae Planting Date: 1870 Area: Walled Garden - Upper North Quarter Accession no: 1870/UNQ-18/44689/HA Photograph: 19/09/24 at 15:52 

Name: Cercidiphyllum japonicum Family: Cercidiphyllaceae Planting Date: 1870 Area: Walled Garden - Upper North Quarter Accession no: 1870/UNQ-18/44689/HA Photograph: 19/09/24 at 15:52

Notes: Hugh Annesley states in his 1903 book 'Beautiful and Rare Trees & Plants' - 'This very distinct Japanese tree has proved perfectly hardy here. It is deciduous, and its chief beauty is in the Spring, when the young leaves unfold. They are of a delicate pink colour, and the tree has then a very striking and beautiful appearance. In Autumn they change from a light green to a clear bright yellow. It is a rapid grower here, with slender branches of a fastigiate habit when young, being well clothed with leaves to the ground. The plant figured is ten feet high and thirty-two feet in circumference. In Japan it is considered a valuable timber tree, and grows to a great size, producing soft, straight-grained, light yellow wood, out of which the Ainos make the mortars which are used in every house for pounding grain, and from its great trunks they hollow their canoes. It grows to about a hundred feet in height. Cercidiphyllum was introduced by Messrs. Veitch in 1879, but owing to the difficulty of propagating it otherwise than -from seed, it was not distributed till many years afterwards. Growing wild so far north as Yeso, it may be assumed that it is hardy in Great Britain, as it has proved to be in Massachusetts, U.S.A. The photograph was taken on April 17th, when the leaves were not quite fully expanded.'

Notes: Hugh Annesley states in his 1903 book 'Beautiful and Rare Trees & Plants' - 'This very distinct Japanese tree has proved perfectly hardy here. It is deciduous, and its chief beauty is in the Spring, when the young leaves unfold. They are of a delicate pink colour, and the tree has then a very striking and beautiful appearance. In Autumn they change from a light green to a clear bright yellow. It is a rapid grower here, with slender branches of a fastigiate habit when young, being well clothed with leaves to the ground. The plant figured is ten feet high and thirty-two feet in circumference. In Japan it is considered a valuable timber tree, and grows to a great size, producing soft, straight-grained, light yellow wood, out of which the Ainos make the mortars which are used in every house for pounding grain, and from its great trunks they hollow their canoes. It grows to about a hundred feet in height. Cercidiphyllum was introduced by Messrs. Veitch in 1879, but owing to the difficulty of propagating it otherwise than -from seed, it was not distributed till many years afterwards. Growing wild so far north as Yeso, it may be assumed that it is hardy in Great Britain, as it has proved to be in Massachusetts, U.S.A. The photograph was taken on April 17th, when the leaves were not quite fully expanded.'

Notes: Thought to be one of the remaining survivors from the introduction of this species. Originally planted against the wall for protection hence unique growth form.

Notes: Thought to be one of the remaining survivors from the introduction of this species. Originally planted against the wall for protection hence unique growth form.

Notes: Blown down during Storm Eowyn 2025

Name: Magnolia veitchii Family: Magnoliaceae Planting Date: 1900 Area: Walled Garden - Lower North Quarter Accession number: 1900/LNQ-02/44689/HA Photograph Date: 11/05/23