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🚫Tree of Heaven

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>>>DO NOT PLANT OR ALLOW TO GROW ON YOUR PROPERTY<<<

General Info

  • Latin Name: Ailanthus altissima

  • Native Range: China

  • Growth Rate: Fast

  • Mature Height: 40 – 60’

  • Mature Spread: 25 – 40’

Arborist Thoughts

  • Introduced from China in the late 1700s as a shade tree and horticultural specimen, this tree now threatens to overwhelm our native areas and landscapes.

  • Its ease of establishment, prolific seed production, rapid growth, absence of significant disease/pests and ability to out compete other plants with allelopathy (producing toxic compounds to poison its competition) has made it possible for Tree-of-Heaven to invade natural areas and suppress the growth of native trees.

  • Tree of Heaven is considered an invasive species and should be ruthlessly eliminated.

  • DO NOT PLANT OR ALLOW TO GROW ON YOUR PROPERTY