Arboretum Collection
Today's pinetum, begun in 1866, includes rare, mature specimens includes Torreya nucifera, a massive weeping European Beech in front of the 19th century Italianate mansion, and one of the oldest Dawn Redwoods in the United States. The collection of specimen trees and shrubs include towering American White and English Oaks, lindens, tulip trees, bald cypress, and Chinese Golden Larch, as well as different species and cultivars of azaleas, lilacs, viburnums, hollies, weeping cherries and rhododendrons.
The Hunnewell Pine, Pinus x hunnewellii, is a hybrid between Eastern White Pine and Japanese White Pine first raised at the Walter Hunnewell Arboretum in 1952.
- Wellesley College Botanic Gardens
The Walter Hunnewell Arboretum is not to be confused with the H. H. Hunnewell Arboretum in the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens at nearby Wellesley College, located across Lake Waban from the Hunnewell Estate. The latter arboretum is the namesake of Horatio Hollis Hunnewell.
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