YELLOWSTONE ARBORETUM
" Stewards of the Natural Environment "
Billings, Montana @ ZooMontana
ORCHARD LANE
This area of the arboretum has always been a bit of an experiment. Dozens of species have been introduced over the decades and the hardy ones have survived. New specimens will be introduced in the future so stay tuned for yearly updates.
CURRENT INVENTORY
Harlared Apple
Macoun Apple
Empire Apple
Toka Plum
Thunderchild Crabapple
Nannyberry
American Elderberry
Montmorency Cherry
Scout Apricot
Davidiana Peach
Hackberry
William Baffin Rose
John Davis Rose
Gooseberry
BIRD FAVORITE
A# 2000-004 H21
Prunus 'Montmorency'
Family: Rosaceae
Common name: Montmorency Cherry
Location: Northside of barn
Number in accession: 1
Note: Fruits every year-bird's favorite
Homestead Rose collection
William Baffin Rose
A# 0099-063
Family: Rosaceae
Origin: Canada
Location: Chicken Fence
Number: 2
Note: Fantastic bloomer
Climbing style-pruned 2018
John Davis Rose
A# 0099-037
Family: Rosaceae
Origin: Unknown
Location: Fence-east corral
Number: 1
Note: Re-discovered 2018
Climbing style-pruned 2018
Welcome to Orchard Lane
Homestead Collections
Fruit Trees
Malus is a genus of about 30–55 species of small deciduous trees or shrubs in the family Rosaceae, including the domesticated orchard apple – also known as the eating apple, cooking apple, or culinary apple. It is dealt with under Apple. The other species are generally known as crabapples, crab apples, or wild apples.
A plum is a fruit of the subgenus Prunus of the genus Prunus. The subgenus is distinguished from other subgenera in the shoots having terminal bud and solitary side buds, the flowers in groups of one to five together on short stems, and the fruit having a groove running down one side and a smooth stone.
Sambucus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Adoxaceae. The various species are commonly called elder or elderberry. The genus was formerly placed in the honeysuckle family, Caprifoliaceae, but was reclassified as Adoxaceae due to genetic and morphological comparisons to plants in the genus Adoxa.
The Montmorency cherry is a variety of sour cherry grown in Canada, France, and the United States, particularly in Michigan and in Door County, Wisconsin. Montmorency cherries are part of the lighter-red Amarelle cultivar of sour cherries, rather than the darker-red Morello cultivar.
Prunus mandshurica, called Manchurian apricot and Scout apricot, is a tree in the genus Prunus. It was first described by Karl Maximovich in 1883 as a variety of the Siberian apricot Prunus armeniaca. It is resistant to cold and is native to northeast China, Korea, and Manchuria.
Prunus davidiana is a species in the genus Prunus in the family Rosaceae. It is also known by the common names David's peach and Chinese wild peach. It is native to China, preferring to grow in forests and thickets, on slopes in mountain valleys, and in waste fields.
It is extremely resistant to frost.
CURRENT CATALOGUE RECORDS
A# 0096-037 H36
Malus 'Haralred'
Family: Rosaceae
Common name: Haralred Eating Apple
Origin: Hybrid
Location: Homestead Collections-Orchard Lane
Number in accession: 1
Note: Photo is of Apples and Plum grouping
A# 0099-154 H38
Prunus 'Toka'
Family: Rosaceae
Common name: Toka Plum
Origin: So.Dakota Experimental Station
Location: Homestead Collections-Orchard Lane
Number in accession: 1
Note: Photo is of Plum and Apples grouping
A# 2004-002 W/A
Malus domestica 'Macoun'
Family: Rosaceae
Common name: Macoun Apple
Origin: Geneva, NY experimental station
Location: Homestead Collections-Orchard Lane
Number in accession: 1
Note: Specimen is nearest pond in grouping
A# 2004-003 H37
Malus domestica 'Empire'
Family; Rosaceae
Common name: Empire or Empire Red Apple
Origin: Geneva, NY-McIntosh x Delicious
Location: Homestead Collections-Orchard Lane
Number in accession: 1
Note: Specimen is on northside of pathway
BERRY COLLECTION
A# 2000-085
Sambucus canadensis
Family: Caprifoliaceae
Origin: North America
Common name: Elderberry
Location: North door-Barn
Number: 5
Note: Others located-Tiger
A# 0096-046
Viburnum lentago
Family: Caprifoliaceae
Common name: Nannyberry
Origin: Canada to Georgia
Location: SW end-chicken yard
Number: (2) 1 current
Note: Heavily pruned 2018
A# 2017-003 H23
Ribes grossularia
Species; Ribes 'UVA-Crispa'
Common name: Gooseberry
Origin: Europe,No.Africa
Location: East side-Chickens
Number: 2 (1) Dottie's Garden
Note: 2017 Plant Select
A# 0093-073 H25
Celtis occidentalis
Family: Ulmaceae
Origin: N. America
Common name: Hackberry
Number: 1
Location: east side-Barn
Note: (1) other in Children's Garden
A# 2003-003 H24
Prunus armeniaca var. siberica 'Scout' P.mandshurica
Family; Rosaceae
Origin: Northeaster Asia, possibly Siberia
Common name: Scout Apricot, Scout Manchurian
Location: Northeast corner of Homestead Barn
Number in accession: 1
Note: Kent Zimmerman Memorial tree
Growing on angle preventing much fruiting
APRICOT
PEACH
A# 2002-004 H27
Prunus davidiana
Family: Rosaceae
Origin: China
Common name: David's Peach
Location: Service Road-Behind Amphitheater
Number in accession: (10) 5 have survived
Note: Mixed in tree island with Scotch Arctic Pine
Pruned heavily Fall 2018