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Common Name
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Species
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Problems/Characteristics
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Silver Maple
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Acer saccharinum
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Weak branch unions - prone to wind damage
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Raywoods Ash
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Fraxinus angustifolia Raywood
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Weak branch unions - prone to wind damage
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False Acacia
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Robinia pseudoacacia
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Weak branch unions - tends to sucker
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Poplars
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All species
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Vigorous invasive root growth - brittle wood - tends to sucker
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Willow
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All species
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Vigorous invasive root growth - brittle wood
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Laburnum
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Laburnum anagyroides
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Produces poisonous seeds
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Yew
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Taxus baccata
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Produces poisonous seeds
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Sumach
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Rhus typhina
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Tends to sucker
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further information
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Last Updated:
6 October 2004
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