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
Nyssa sylvatica in the Northeast is "pepperidge." On Martha's Vineyard, in Massachusetts, this species is called "beetlebung", perhaps for its use in making the mallet known as a beetle, used for hammering bungs (stoppers) into barrels. "Nyssa sylvatica" grows to tall, rarely to , with a trunk diameter of , rarely up to . These trees typically have a straight trunk with the branches extending outward at right angles. The bark is dark gray and flaky when young, but it becomes furrowed with age, resembling alligator hide on very old stems. The twigs of this tree are reddish-brown, usually hidden by a