Trees we love


Quarantine Buddy

I didn’t really know anything about the California Buckeye at first. All I knew was that when I stared out the window in quarantine isolation on campus at Stanford, it was always there.

Lauren Pitzer

Perhaps the World Begins Here: Communing with coast live oak

…Eventually, I realized that my tree wasn’t one of the individuals or species I kept going to—it was the one to which I always returned.

Brennecke Gale

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A Girl, A Chinese Tallow Tree, and her Childhood Home Walk into a Pandemic…This Chinese Tallow Tree (Triadica sebifera) is a deciduous tree species native to central China.

Alyssa Fuentes