Prospect and Sachem

Black Locust

Black Locust
Robinia pseudoacacia
Tree ID: 201
Date of tree entry: February 4, 2026
This Black Locust Tree is found across Prospect Street from Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, and just up the hill from Ingalls Ice Rink. If you were a squirrel that lived in this tree, you would be able to see students walking to their laboratory classes in the morning and fans coming to cheer for...

Red Oak
Quercus rubra
Tree ID: 205
Date of tree entry: February 4, 2026
This massive red oak is located in the center of science hill, near the Yale Science building and in front of Kline tower. Measuring over 70 feet tall and with a canopy area of over 400 square meters, this tree provides shade and a beautiful view to all who pass by it. Like all red oak, it has...

Norway Spruce
Picea abies
Tree ID: 200
Date of tree entry: February 4, 2026
The Norway Spruce is a highly versatile and resilient tree. The Norway Spruce is a conifer gymnosperm and an evergreen tree that bears pine cones. This classification signifies that the tree relies on wind pollination and bears “naked seeds” on its large cones. It is monoecious, with both male and...

Eastern White Pine
Pinus strobus
Tree ID: 202
Date of tree entry: February 4, 2026
This eastern white pine sits on Science Hill near Ingalls Ice Rink. It is in a row of other eastern white pines that decorate the slope down to the parking lot of the ice rink.

White Oak
Quercus alba
Tree ID: 184
Date of tree entry: February 4, 2025
Known colloquially as the only type of wood that could kill all vampires in The Vampire Diaries, the white oak is indeed as magical and powerful as it sounds! Not only does bark from the tree form stakes to kill vampires, but it is also used for barrels (called staves, so sometimes the tree is...

Sassafras
Sassafras albidum
Tree ID: 188
Date of tree entry: February 5, 2025
This Sassafras tree stands beside a hilly walkway, blending in with other young trees, including magnolias. Sassafras will always be distinctive, however, due to its aromatic smell. Unique to North America, the sweet and spicy scent of Sassafras may entice you to take a bite. But fear not, you can...

Sugar Maple
Acer saccharum
Tree ID: 190
Date of tree entry: February 5, 2025
True Northeast icon, this Sugar Maple is even more gorgeous alone on Halloween, although in reality, its gorgeous cascade of blazing reds, golds, and oranges makes it one of the continent's most hallowed trees. Autumn is their season, here an absolute spectacle, reducing landscape to living...

American Beech
Fagus grandifolia
Tree ID: 189
Date of tree entry: February 5, 2025
The American Beech tree is a medium sided tree that is native to eastern parts of North America. It produces beechnuts, which are eaten by squirrels, deer, and birds. When it grows, it has a large, sprawling canopy of green leaves. In the winter, it retains many of its leaves, now a curly, brown...

Magnolia
Magnolia soulangeana
Tree ID: 187
Date of tree entry: February 5, 2025
The ancient warrior of myth and more popularly known Disney princess Mulan (木兰) got her name from the magnolia blossom, a flower that represents beauty, nobility, and strength in Chinese culture. And so represents the magnolia family of flowering plants, which has survived events such as ice ages,...

River Birch
Betula nigra
Tree ID: 186
Date of tree entry: February 5, 2025
This River Birch is situated towards the Eastern end of Sachem's Wood, and can most easily be identified by its peeling, mottled bark. It exhibits a distinctive growth pattern that is typical of its species by splitting into five trunks that sag outwards, which benevolently shade a nearby...

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