Waygood is Changing -
Sponsor a Waygood Tree for £100

The 30 young trees, which form Waygood Wood, will return to our building in High Bridge and will eventually have a permanent home in our new Café courtyard and roof-top terrace, when our redevelopment is complete.

For £100 you can dedicate a brass name-plate containing the Latin and common names of your chosen tree alongside your personal dedication.
All the money raised will go towards Waygood's new Learning Programme.

You will also receive a copy of the Waygood Wood Catalogue and limited edition Waygood Wood Till Receipt as well as be added to our Invitation list to receive invitations to events as updates about the development of our city centre cultural building.

Download the Tree dedication form Here

 

Glossary of Trees

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Latin Name Common Name Fact
1 Fagus sylvetica purpurea Purple Beech An old beechwood has the longest echo of any woodland.
A sound eerie and disturbing.
2 Prunus carasifera Nigra carasifera Nigra Cherry Plum Annual world production (as of 2003) of domesticated cherries is about 45698 million tonnes, of which a third are sour cherries.
Around 75 percent of world production originates in Europe.
3 Cornus Alba Siberica Dogwood In the past, the waxy Dogwood berries (inedible) were used a source of lamp oil and the hard white wood was used as skewers, frames for loading up pack animals, charcoal and many other purposes.
4 Fraxinus ang. Raywood Narrow leaved ash The English name ash is derived from aesc the Anglo-Saxon name for a spear, once a common use for 'ground ash' as young slender saplings were called.

The name Fraxinus was given to the tree by the Romans. The old Latin name for the seeds (ash keys) was lingua lavis meaning bird's tongue, which they closely resemble.
5 Betula ulitis jacquemonti Himalayan Birch Introduced to the UK in 1849 by Sir Joseph Hooker, from the reddish-barked Himalayan population.
The white-barked var. jacquemontii was introduced in 1880.
6 Acer Platanoides Crimson Sentry Norway maple Acer Platanoides, the Norway Maple, grows on the mountains of the northern countries of Europe, descending in some parts of Norway to the seashore. It abounds in the north of Poland and Lithuania, and is common through Germany, Switzerland, and Savoy.

It was introduced into Great Britain in 1683. It is a quick grower and on a tolerable soil it attains a large size (from 40 to 70 feet).
7 Acer Saccharinum Sugar Maple Large quantities of sugar are made from the sap of this species of Maple. The sap is boiled and the syrup when reduced to a proper consistence is run into moulds to form cakes.

The trees are tapped in early spring, just before the foliage develops, either by making a notch in the stem, about 3 feet from the ground, with an axe, or by boring a hole about 2 inches deep and introducing a spout of sumach or elder, through which the sap flows into a trough below.
8 Cherry - celeste Cherry Besides the fruit, cherries also have attractive flowers, and they are commonly planted for their flower display in spring; several of the Asian cherries are particularly noted for their flower displays.

The Japanese sakura in particular are a national symbol celebrated in the yearly Hanami festival.
9 Cherry - sweetheart Cherry Wild Cherries have been an item of human food for several thousands of years. The stones have been found in deposits at bronze age settlements throughout Europe, including in Britain.

In one dated example, Wild Cherry macrofossils were found in a core sample from the detritus beneath a dwelling at an Early and Middle Bronze Age pile-dwelling site on and in the shore of a former lake at Desenzano del Garda or Lonato, near the southern shore of Lake Garda, Italy.
The date is estimated at Early Bronze Age IA, carbon dated there to 2077 plus or minus 10B.C.
10 Pear Onward Pear The once-popular custom of wassailing the orchard-trees' on Christmas Eve, or the Eve of the Epiphany, is not quite extinct even yet in a few remote places in Devonshire.
More than three centuries ago Herrick mentioned it among his 'Ceremonies of Christmas Eve':

'Wassaile the trees, that they may beare
You many a Plum and many a Peare:
For more or lesse fruits they will bring,
As you do give them Wassailing.'
11 Taxus baccata Fastiagola Robusta Irish Yew Yews are a symbol of immortality. Ancient peoples were in the habit of planting yew trees as acts of sanctification near to where they expected to be buried.
An important anti-cancer drug is produced from yew hedge clippings.
12 Sorbus Acuparia Aspenitolia Cut-leaf Rowan Greek myth tells a story of the origin of the Rowan tree.
Hera and Zeus had a daughter, called Hebe, Goddess of youth. Hebe had the power to make the old young again. Her task on Mount Olympus was to be the cupbearer to the Gods.
Every day she filled their cups with sweet nectar, thus ensuring their immortality.

One day, when she was inattentive, demons stole the cup of her father, the supreme Zeus. An eagle was sent out to retrieve the precious object and this resulted in a terrible battle between the eagle and the demons.

A Rowan tree grew wherever a drop of the eagle's blood and one of its feathers fell. And this is why the Rowan has feathery leaves and red berries, like a drop of blood
13 Salix alba vit. Hutchinsons Willow Chinese physicians used willow to reduce pain and inflammation from before the time of Christ.
It was not until about 1750 that Rev. Edmund Stone md. of Oxfordshire, England experimented with White willow in an attempt to treat malaria with a local source rather than the expensive and difficult to obtain cinchona bark which contains quinine, an effective antimalarial drug.

The good Reverend used the bark from White willow because it tasted similar to the bitter cinchona bark. When he gave it to the local patients, their pain and fever were reduced even though it did not control the malaria.
Medicinal applications of the herb caught on quickly and word spread of its effectiveness against pain, inflammation, and fever.
14 Cupressus sempervir striola Mediterranean Cypress Starry Night. Vincent Van Gogh. (oil on canvas, 1889) The Museum of Modern Art, New York

This is a painting that depicts the colossal power of nature as it overwhelms the scale of man. He continues this comparison by echoing the shape of cypress tree with the church spire.

These symbols, one a creation of nature - one a creation of man - stand out as they are the only vertical elements in the picture. Both symbols point to the heavens: the natural tree - strong, confident and in harmony with the elements; the man-made spire - weak, artificial and straining to reach the stars.
15 Pinus thungbargii Black Pine Oleo-resins are present in the tissues of all species of pines, but these are often not present in sufficient quantity to make their extraction economically worthwhile.
The resins are obtained by tapping the trunk, or by destructive distillation of the wood. In general, trees from warmer areas of distribution give the higher yields.

Turpentine consists of an average of 20% of the oleo-resin and is separated by distillation. Turpentine has a wide range of uses including as a solvent for waxes etc, for making varnish, medicinal etc.
Rosin is the substance left after turpentine is removed. This is used by violinists on their bows and also in making sealing wax and varnish.
16 Querous ilex Holly Oak The timber of Holm Oak is said to be even harder than Common Oak and as durable and more flexible. This makes it an ideal wood for mallet heads and stocks of tools. When greenly cut, the wood is heavier than water.

Its acorns, like those of our own English Oak and other Oak species, have been used in the past as a packing material for fragile and delicate items, much like we use polystyrene baubles and bubble-wrap now.
17 Pear Onward Pear Pear trees bear their fruit closer to the main branches compared to apples. For this reason allow around 8 main branches to form rather than the four or five of an apple tree.
18 Populus candicans Aurora Poplar The sapwood is creamy white and may be streaked, with the heartwood varying from pale yellowish brown to olive green. The green color in the heartwood will tend to darken on exposure to light and turn brown. The wood has a medium to fine texture and is straight-grained; has a comparatively uniform texture.
19 Crataegns Tae. Crimson Cloud Hawthorn "In numerous regions it was a springtime custom to plait crowns of hawthorn and leave them for the fairies or angels who came by night to dance around the fragrant bushes, an who, it was hoped, would show their appreciation by showering their blessings on those who had taken this trouble on their behalf." (Palaiseul).
20 Querous Robur Common Oak Following the last Ice Age, oak trees migrated to Britain naturally from mainland Europe by seeding across the land bridge that is now the English Channel.
21 Betula albo vat,septantriane Chinese Birch As birch is one of the first trees to come into leaf it would be an obvious choice as representation of the emergence of spring.
Deities associated with birch are mostly love and fertility goddesses, such as the northern European Frigga and Freya.

Eostre (from whom we derive the word Easter), the Anglo Saxon goddess of spring was celebrated around and through the birch tree between the spring equinox and Beltane.
According to the medieval herbalist Culpepper, the birch is ruled over by Venus - both the planet and the goddess. According to Scottish Highland folklore, a barren cow herded with a birch stick would become fertile, or a pregnant cow bear a healthy calf.
22 Acer ps. Worleei Golden Sycamore Occasional trees produce "wavy-grained" or "fiddle-back" wood. Very valuable and highly prized by cabinetmakers and craftworkers, this is reserved for making the best violins, other musical instruments and veneers.
23 Aesculus Hippocastanum Horse Chestnut First introduced to Britain from the Balkans in the late 16th century, it was not until about 200 years later that the fruits of the horse chestnut trees were used to play "conkers". Before that, "conkers" were played with hazel or cobnuts or snail shells.
24 Betula Pendula Silver Birch Silver or Warty Birch twigs are hairless but bear tiny warts. Silver Birch branches droop at the tips - which is why its scientific name is pendula or hanging.
25 Quince sebian Gold Quince The fruit, being dedicated to Venus, was regarded as the symbol of Love and Happiness, and Plutarch mentions the bridal custom of a Quince being shared by a married pair. Quinces sent as presents, or shared, were tokens of love.
The custom was handed down, and throughout the Middle Ages Quinces were used at every wedding feast, as we may read in a curious book, The Praise of Musicke:

'I come to marriages, wherein as our ancestors did fondly and with a kind of doating, maintaine many rites and ceremonies, some whereof were either shadowes or abodements of a pleasant life to come, as the eating of a Quince Peare to be a preparative of sweet and delightful dayes between the married persons.'
26 Fagus Sylvetica PURPUREA Purple Beech The common name comes from the Norse buche or bok which also means book. Thin sheets of beech wood were used before paper was perfected. Early book covers were also made of wood.
27 Plum Victoria Plum Scattered in an orchard in the Bistrita experimental research station of Transylvania, in the Carpathian Mountains, several dozen trees have their trunk marked with a ‘T’ in white paint.
They are plum trees that have been genetically modified by the Institut National de Recherche Agronomique (Inra) laboratory of Bordeaux, France, so as to tolerate the plum pox virus.
The first trees were tested there from 1996, with the support of the European Commission. Ten years later, after citizen pressure, there's talk of destroying some. This article looks back on an experiment far from citizens' eyes.
28 Apple Bramley Apple A ripe raw apple is one of the easiest vegetable substances for the stomach to deal with, the whole process of its digestion being completed in eighty-five minutes.
29 Apple Blenheim Orange Apple A knotty apple log could make a splendid mallet head, especially when there was a side-branch next to it, which could be cut off to the desired length as a handle.
30 Cornus Stolonifera Flav’ranea Dogwood Another earlier name of the dogwood in English is the whipple-tree. Geoffrey Chaucer uses the word whippletree in the Canterbury Tales (The Knight's Tale, verse 2065) to refer to the dogwood. Another larger item made of dogwood still bears the name of the tree from which it is carved. The whippletree is an element of the traction of a horse-drawn cart, which links the drawpole of the cart to the harnesses of the horses in file.

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