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Links in the third column are to maps displaying tree locations. Links in brackets are to  Multimap ; normal links are to specific Cambridge tree maps, the second column containing the abbreviation(s) used for the tree on the map.

Tamarix gallica  (Tamarisk) A popular garden tree: there are fair-sized trees on the W side of Stretten Avenue 20m N of Hale Avenue [map] and on the N side of Milton Road opposite George Street [map]
Taxodium distichum  (Swamp Cypress) A single tree on the W side of the Cam, about 50m S of Garret Hostel Bridge [map], from where it is best viewed
Taxus baccata  (Common Yew)YVery common, with some fair-sized trees in Histon Road Cemetery; Irish Yew (‘Fastigiata’) is also frequent in this cemetery and in Mill Road Cemetery; there are small Golden Irish Yew trees (‘Fastigiata aurea’) at the S edge of Mill Road Cemetery and near the Holland Street exit to Alexandra Gardens
Thuja occidentalis  (Eastern White Cedar) Found only as its bushy cultivars, which are common in gardens
Thuja plicata  (Western Red Cedar)RCThe type tree is very common: there is a rather ragged looking specimen in Holy Trinity churchyard in the City Centre; a much larger tree on the N side of Latham Road about 100m W of Trumpington Road [map]; the ‘Zebrina’ (or the similar ‘Irish Gold’) cultivar is common, e.g. in the gardens in front of Ditchburn Place on Mill Road [map]
Tilia americana  (American Lime)ALThere are some on Jesus Green, just E of the lock, and on Petersfield near the junction of East Road with Mill Road
Tilia cordata  (Small-leaved Lime)SLThere are three in Mill Road Cemetery and a row in Trinity College grounds on the N side of Garret Hostel Lane W of the river [map]; there are some young fastigiate trees (possibly ‘Rancho’) outside Cripps Court on the N side of Chesterton Lane [map]
Tilia x euchlora  (Crimean Lime)CLA common amenity tree, e.g. all down the SE side of Parker's Piece
Tilia x europaea  (Common Lime)LExcessively common, with avenues on Christ's Pieces and a fine row along the NE side of Parker's Piece
Tilia mongolica  (Mongolian Lime) Four small trees in front of Terrington House, by the junction of St Paul's Road with Hills Road [map]; a larger tree in Chesterton Churchyard, across the footpath from the church [map]
Tilia platyphyllos  (Broad-leaved Lime)BLQuite frequent hidden among the much more common Common Limes; several trees on Petersfield next to Parker's Piece; several young and mature trees on and around Christ's Pieces
Tilia tomentosa  (Silver Lime)SiL PLFour trees on Parker's Piece; one on the S side of Warwick Road near its junction with Histon Road [map]; Silver Pendent Lime (‘Petiolaris’) is represented by three magnificent mature trees on the S side of Midsummer Common, as well as many saplings
Trachycarpus fortunei  (Chusan Palm) Several outside the Sorrento Hotel on the S side of Cherry Hinton Road [map]; a large one in a garden on the N side of Milton Road just E of Birch Close [map]
Tsuga heterophylla  (Western Hemlock) A magnificent tree sadly not found in Cambridge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

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