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Top 20 Most Common Trees in Nagano

Nestled in the heart of Nagano, Nagano, Japan, the urban greenscape boasts a rich tapestry of native trees. Despite the city's urban development, its environmental backdrop provides a nurturing habitat for indigenous trees. Among these, Japanese maple, Painted maple, and Japanese chestnut stand out as quintessential representatives of Nagano's green identity. These trees not only contribute to the city's aesthetic beauty but also hold cultural and ecological significance, intertwining themselves into the fabric of Nagano's unique greenscape.

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Most Common Trees
Japanese maple
1. Japanese maple
A woody plant native to East Asia, the japanese maple features hand-shaped leaves with five-pointed lobes that resemble the palm of a hand. It has been cultivated for millennia in Japan for bonsai creation. Extracts from the branches and leaves of this plant are used as medicine in Chinese traditional medicine.
Plant Height:
4 m to 15 m
Painted maple
2. Painted maple
Acer pictum is a deciduous tree up to 20 m tall, with gray bark. Leaves are non-compound, thin, up to 12 cm wide and 12 cm across, toothless, with 3, 5, 7, or 9 lobes.
Plant Height:
9 m to 12 m
Japanese bird cherry
3. Japanese bird cherry
Japanese bird cherry is a deciduous tree of Rosaceae. Its Japanese name comes from the grooved board used in ancient tortoise shell divination. It can be distinguished from the similar Inu cherry, its inflorescence branches with leaves.
Plant Height:
8 m to 20 m
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Japanese chestnut
4. Japanese chestnut
Japanese chestnut is a medium-sized chestnut tree that has been used in plant-disease resistance research due to its resistance to chestnut blight and ink disease. An important nut crop, the plant grows in the foothills of Japan and Korea, where the nuts are enjoyed as a sweet snack.
Plant Height:
9 m to 12 m
Bao li
5. Bao li
Quercus serrata is a deciduous oak tree reaching a height of 25 m. Leaves are up to 17 cm long by 9 cm wide leathery elliptical in shape with serrated margins. Petioles are short (3 cm). Flowers are pistillate inflorescences from 1.5 to 3 cm long occurring in spring. Seeds are oval shaped acorns 1.7 to 2 cm long and take 1 year to mature. Bark is grey or reddish-brown with longitudinal furrows.
Plant Height:
25 m
Japanese bigleaf magnolia
6. Japanese bigleaf magnolia
It is a medium-sized deciduous tree 15 to 30 m tall, with slate grey bark. The leaves are large, 16 to 38 cm (rarely to 50 cm) long and 9 to 20 cm (rarely 25 cm) broad, leathery, green above, silvery or greyish pubescent below, and with an acute apex. The flowers are also large, cup-shaped, 15 to 20 cm diameter. The fruit is an oblong-cylindric aggregate of follicles 12 to 20 cm long and 6 cm broad, bright pinkish red.
Plant Height:
8 m to 12 m
Rose of sharon
7. Rose of sharon
Hibiscus syriacus is a deciduous shrub with trumpet-shaped pink, lavender, or white flowers. Although it was first collected by Western botanists from Syrian gardens, “rose of sharon” is native to south-central and southeastern China. Because of its hardiness and prolific blooming, it is cultivated all around the world. It is the national flower of South Korea, mentioned in its national anthem.
Plant Height:
2 m to 4 m
Japanese zelkova
8. Japanese zelkova
This dense shade tree is particularly useful for planting near streets and in parking lots and lawns. It is also popularly used as a bonsai tree. Japanese zelkova is resistant to Dutch elm disease and has therefore been increasingly used in place of American elms.
Plant Height:
15 m to 30 m
Japanese Snowbell
9. Japanese Snowbell
Japanese Snowbell is a deciduous flowering tree native to Japan China and Korea. This smaller-sized tree makes a lovely ornamental with its slightly fragrant white bell-shaped blossoms that bloom spring to summer. Its leaves turn yellow to orange in the fall before dropping.
Plant Height:
12 m
Japanese horse-chestnut
10. Japanese horse-chestnut
The seed of the deciduous japanese horse-chestnut tree contains a lot of saponin, which is a bitter, poisonous substance. This tree species is used as an ornamental and is often found in deciduous forests, especially among moist slopes. The flowers are yellow and white and bloom from early to mid-summer.
Plant Height:
9 m
Fullmoon maple
11. Fullmoon maple
Fullmoon maple (Acer japonicum) is a species of maple tree native to Japan and South Korea. It rarely grows more than 10 m tall. Fullmoon maple has found favor as a North American and European ornamental plant. In autumn, the leaves change to a dark red or bright orange before they fall.
Plant Height:
5 m to 10 m
Japanese callicarpa
12. Japanese callicarpa
Japanese callicarpa fruit is an important food source for deer and various bird species. This plant is grown ornamentally for its attractive flowers and fruit, and it is a good pioneer species that can be used to revegetate degraded soils.
Plant Height:
2 m
Kousa dogwood
13. Kousa dogwood
The kousa dogwood is known for its ornamental appeal. The showy flowers and bark, as well as the lovely fall foliage, make this vase-shaped tree a great addition to your patio, yard, or lawn. The tree matures to about 9 m high and is often just as wide.
Plant Height:
4 m to 10 m
Japanese spicebush
14. Japanese spicebush
The japanese spicebush is a flowering herbaceous shrub that is endemic to several Asian countries. It is traditionally used as a medicinal herb in Southeast Asian countries. In early spring, it produces small, yellow flowers with a spicy aroma. The RHS awarded this plant the Garden Merit Award.
Plant Height:
3 m to 6 m
Giant dogwood
15. Giant dogwood
Because of its elegantly multilayered branches and creamy white blossoms, the Wedding Cake Tree resembles a cake. It is native to Southeast Asia and has won the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Bees and butterflies feed on the nectar from the beautiful flowers of this plant.
Plant Height:
11 m to 14 m
Japanese cherry
16. Japanese cherry
The japanese cherry tradition, called Hanami, where people have picnics and outdoor parties under these trees, is a popular attraction. The excellent spring colors of the Prunus serrulata tree attract butterflies like the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. Its showy pink and white flowers are in full bloom in early to mid-spring, and some are fragrant.
Plant Height:
4 m to 16 m
Mountain lacquer tree
17. Mountain lacquer tree
The leaves are odd-winged double leaves with 4-8 pairs of leaflets. The leaves are ring-shaped and the smaller the lower leaves. Hair grows densely on both sides of the leaf. The leaves of mature trees are rounded but the leaves of young trees have saw teeth. The petioles and leaf stems also have hair and are reddish. It turns red in the fall. It is a hermaphroditic strain with yellow-green flowers around spring. The fruit is tonsil-like and has stings on the surface.
Plant Height:
4 m to 6 m
Chinese flowering ash
18. Chinese flowering ash
The height of the trunk will be 5 to 15 m. The young branches are green the shoots inflorescences and petiole have fine hairs and will turn gray the following year. The leaves are opposite to the branches with long petioles and are odd-numbered compound leaves composed of 3-5 (-7) leaves. The tip of the leaf is sharp and the base is distorted wedge-shaped the length of the blade is (3-) 5 to 10 cm and the width is about 1.5 to 3.5 cm. Normally white hair grows along the middle vein of the back of the leaf but it spring become hairless later. The edges of the leaves are almost full and the saw teeth are indistinct and wavy. The flowering season is in spring. This year several panicles are opposed to the tops and axils of the branches and the four white petals bloom densely. The petals are linear and about 6 to 7 mm long. There are two stamens in both male and female flowers (amphibian) and one pistil in female flowers (amphibian). Fruits are 2 to 2.5 cm long wings.
Plant Height:
5 m to 8 m
Macropoda holly
19. Macropoda holly
Hermaphrodite. The height is about 8 m. A greenish white flower blooms in spring-summer and a red fruit with a diameter of about 7 mm is attached in fall.
Plant Height:
10 m to 17 m
Japanese cherry
20. Japanese cherry
Deciduous trees with a height of about 15 to 20 m and large ones can exceed 20 m. The leaves are ovate with a narrow base and many hairs on the leaves and petioles. The back of the leaf is glossy. Its growth altitude is usually higher than that of Cerasus jamasakura but mainly distributed in the middle of the state. It also grows in the lower part of its distribution area overlapping with Cerasus jamasakura. The flowers are similar to Cerasus jamasakura but smaller some white and reddish. There are five petals round and incised with 40 stamens. The flowering time in Honshu is spring. The flowering time of high altitude area and northeast area is around the beginning of spring. It is similar to Cerasus jamasakura that the leaf unfolds and blooms at the same time but the difference is that the leaf unfolds not in red but green. It is distributed in Hokkaido Honshu and Shikoku as well as the Korean Peninsula and China.
Plant Height:
11 m
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