Morrison Arboretum
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The Morrison Arboretum is an arboretum
located in Morrison, Oklahoma
. It is open to the public daily without charge.
The arboretum's plantings include Acer
truncatum, Aesculus pavia, Betula nigra, Cercis canadensis, Celtis occidentalis
, Chamaecyparis nootkatensis, Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Ginkgo biloba, Ilex 'Nellie R. Stevens', Juniperus virginiana
, Magnolia grandiflora, Metasequoia glyptostroboides
, Morus alba 'Chaparral', Nyssa sylvatica, Platanus x acerifolia, Quercus muehlenbergii, Quercus nigra, Quercus shumardii, Taxodium distichum
, and Ulmus pumila.
Arboretum
An arboretum in a narrow sense is a collection of trees only. Related collections include a fruticetum , and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly, today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study...
located in Morrison, Oklahoma
Morrison, Oklahoma
Morrison is a town in Noble County, Oklahoma. The population was 636 at the 2000 census.-History:Morrison, OK is located in the Cherokee Outlet, which was created for the Cherokee Nation in 1835. The Outlet was opened to non-Indian settlement by the Cherokee Strip Land Run in September 1893...
. It is open to the public daily without charge.
The arboretum's plantings include Acer
Maple
Acer is a genus of trees or shrubs commonly known as maple.Maples are variously classified in a family of their own, the Aceraceae, or together with the Hippocastanaceae included in the family Sapindaceae. Modern classifications, including the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system, favour inclusion in...
truncatum, Aesculus pavia, Betula nigra, Cercis canadensis, Celtis occidentalis
Celtis occidentalis
Celtis occidentalis, commonly known as the Common hackberry, is a medium-size deciduous tree native to North America. It is also known as the nettletree, beaverwood, northern hackberry, and American hackberry...
, Chamaecyparis nootkatensis, Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Ginkgo biloba, Ilex 'Nellie R. Stevens', Juniperus virginiana
Juniperus virginiana
Juniperus virginiana is a species of juniper native to eastern North America, from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, east of the Great Plains...
, Magnolia grandiflora, Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Metasequoia glyptostroboides, the dawn redwood, is a fast-growing, critically endangered deciduous conifer tree, sole living species of the genus Metasequoia, and one of three species of conifers known as redwoods. It is native to the Sichuan-Hubei region of China...
, Morus alba 'Chaparral', Nyssa sylvatica, Platanus x acerifolia, Quercus muehlenbergii, Quercus nigra, Quercus shumardii, Taxodium distichum
Taxodium distichum
Taxodium distichum is a species of conifer native to the southeastern United States.-Characteristics:...
, and Ulmus pumila.