What: Yoshino cherry trees Moved to campus: 1964 Estimated age: 58-68 or older Life expectancy: 60-100 years Get directions to the Quad >
Video: Time-lapse movie of cherry trees in the Quad. (2005) Go >
Campus History: The UW trees were first planted on land that is now the approach to the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge. They were rescued during construction and moved to campus. More in Columns magazine (1999). Go >
Replacement Trees Cuttings were grafted onto rootstock at an Oregon nursery and are now growing in a Mount Vernon, Wash., nursery. This cherry tree update was in a UW Daily article on campus groundskeepers. (Jan. 29, 2007.) Go >
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