If you have plans to visit Mt. Tabor Park or are just looking for an outdoor stroll with a defined purpose, seeking out the notable trees of Mt. Tabor Park might fit the bill. The Friends of Mt. Tabor Park have put together a tree guide, available as both an interactive guide for a mobile device and a printable PDF.
The guide identifies 57 evergreen and deciduous trees. Two botanical groups of trees grow in Oregon. Angiosperms include all the broadleaf trees. Conifer and ginkgo trees belong to the gymnosperm group. Evergreen trees have green foliage year round. Deciduous trees spend part of their year naked.
Many of the trees have strange name conventions and contain hyphens, such as Douglas-fir, or words that are conjoined, such as the Western redcedar, which indicate that the name includes a term that is incorrect. Douglas-firs are not firs and Western redcedars are not cedars. Confusingly, bigleaf maples are maples.
The interactive guide offers a clickable map that brings up details for each tree when selected. The PDF is a two-page document.
Visit taborfriends.org/tree-guide for both versions of the guide, then plan a time to take in Mt. Tabor Park, notable trees and all.