Basilicas Park silver maple ("A. saccharinum"), European hornbeam ("Carpinus betulus"), cherry plum ("Prunus cerasifera"), European beech ("Fagus sylvatica"), French oak ("Quercus robur"), several species of elm ("Ulmus"), black poplar ("Populus nigra"), European black pine ("Pinus nigra"), London plane ("Platanus × acerifolia"), and pagoda tree ("Sophora japonica"). Basilicas Park Parco Papa Giovanni Paolo II ("Pope John Paul II Park"), best known by its historic name Basilicas Park (Parco delle Basiliche in Italian) is a city park of Milan, Italy, located in Zone 1. It owes its name to the fact that it connects two major basilicas, the Basilica of San Lorenzo and the
Fagus sylvatica depends on the location: in forest areas, "F. sylvatica" grows to over , with branches being high up on the trunk. In open locations, it will become much shorter (typically ) and more massive. The leaves are alternate, simple, and entire or with a slightly crenate margin, 5–10 cm long and 3–7 cm broad, with 6–7 veins on each side of the leaf (7–10 veins in "Fagus orientalis"). When crenate, there is one point at each vein tip, never any points between the veins. The buds are long and slender, long and thick, but thicker (to ) where the buds