🔍 Lens · Native Quercus, Prunus, Salix, Betula, Malus, and native Acer species

Pollinator hosts — the trees the food web actually depends on

146,328 trees match this lens — 21.2% of Toronto's catalogued street-tree inventory.

Doug Tallamy's host-plant research splits Toronto's street trees into two unequal halves: the species that anchor native insect populations (and through them, the city's bird populations) and everything else. This map shows the first half — every native-genus oak, cherry, willow, birch, crabapple, and native maple in the inventory.

Top species in this lens

Notable specimens

A few of the largest matching trees, with permalinks to view each one on the map.

• Golden Weeping Willow Salix x sepulcralis 'Chrysocoma'
  199 cm DBH · 34 YORK VALLEY CRES · view → · Bridle Path-Sunnybrook-York Mills
• Red Oak Quercus rubra
  199 cm DBH · 176 GRACEDALE BLVD · view → · Humber Summit
• Silver Maple Acer saccharinum
  198 cm DBH · 270 PLEASANT AVE · view → · Newtonbrook West
• Black Oak Quercus velutina
  196 cm DBH · 2 AVA CRES · view → · Forest Hill South
• Silver Maple Acer saccharinum
  195 cm DBH · 143 MACDONELL AVE · view → · Roncesvalles
• Silver Maple Acer saccharinum
  193 cm DBH · 184 PRINCE EDWARD DR S · view → · Stonegate-Queensway
• Silver Maple Acer saccharinum
  193 cm DBH · 1 PARK LANE CRCL · view → · Bridle Path-Sunnybrook-York Mills
• Silver Maple Acer saccharinum
  192 cm DBH · 23 LUNNESS RD · view → · Alderwood
• Silver Maple Acer saccharinum
  191 cm DBH · 191 YONGE BLVD · view → · Bedford Park-Nortown
• Red Oak Quercus rubra
  190 cm DBH · 22 AVALON BLVD · view → · Birchcliffe-Cliffside
• Silver Maple Acer saccharinum
  190 cm DBH · 40 CHATFIELD DR · view → · Banbury-Don Mills
• Silver Maple Acer saccharinum
  190 cm DBH · 2 APSCO AVE · view → · West Hill

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