Let's get a survey of the wide variety and diversity of trees and tree like shrubs thriving here in beautiful Santa Cruz County. All tree species and related species such as squirrels, raccoons, bees, fungus, bugs, and salamanders, etc. living in trees are included. All trees woody shrubs and palms are included, native, endemic, invasive, cultivated, whatever. All gymnosperms, angiosperms, monocots, dicots, you name it, if it looks like a tree it goes!
Our wonderful climate here supports a huge variety of trees from around the globe. Some very rare and exotic, some very common, and some very specialized cultivars. A survey of the diversity and locations of specific examples could be very interesting and useful to scientists, arborists, gardeners, landscapers, and anyone who likes trees and living in beautiful Santa Cruz.

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