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An endemic species is a plant only native to a certain area. Outside this area, unless spread naturally it is considered non-native, usually as a result of cultivation. Britain and Ireland have few endemic trees, most being micro-species of Whitebeam. But there are some interesting endemic trees nevertheless.
On the Isle of Man, where elder grows abundantly and is called tramman, it is commonly thought of as the 'fairy tree'. In Ireland many individual elder trees were thought haunted by fairies or demons. Old Irish is tromm; Modern Irish is trom; Scots Gaelic, troman, droman; Welsh, ysgawen; Cornish, scawen; Breton, skavenn. [9]
Over 70% of Ireland's 900 native species occur in The Burren which is less than 0.5% of the area of Ireland. [9] The Burren contains twelve Annex 1 habitats listed in the EU Habitats Directive . A 2001 survey found 28 different species per square meter (averaged over 1,100 vegetation samples) in upland grasslands, with up to 45 species per ...
Trees of Ireland (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Flora of Ireland" The following 71 pages are in this category, out of 71 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Category: Trees of Ireland. ... This list may not reflect recent changes. H. Hedlundia anglica This page was last edited on 4 October 2021, at 23:38 (UTC). ...
List of trees of Great Britain and Ireland; List of indigenous trees and shrubs of Lithuania; List of superlative trees in Sweden This page was last edited on 25 ...
A list of Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae and Angiospermae including all the native plants and established aliens known to occur in Ireland with the distribution of each species, and recommended Irish and English names. pp. [i]-xxvii, 1-171, map. Dublin: Stationery Office.
This is a list of countries that have officially designated one or more trees as their national trees. Most species in the list are officially designated. Some species hold only an "unofficial" status.