'heritage trees' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe trees that have been protected due to their historical, cultural or ecological importance. For example, "The city is home to a number of heritage trees, some of which are over 500 years old."
It would seem impossible, then, that Mr. García's heritage trees could have come from the missionaries.
In the summer of 1997, the city of Eugene, Ore., announced plans to cut down dozens of "heritage trees" and turn a local park into a parking garage.
Officially, 100,000 old trees in Britain are classed as "veteran", "notable" or "heritage" trees, considered to be of particular ecological or cultural value.
There are also a few designated heritage trees, including an old lychee tree that's unable to bear fruit due to the local climate, and a rubber tree that's a remnant of the area's previous life as a rubber plantation.
"We tell communities, 'Yes, heritage trees are important, heritage ordinances are important,' but you can't allow the pendulum to swing so far as to say that every tree of a certain diameter is a heritage tree," Mr. Oldar said.
Heritage trees are appearance of historical and cultural significance, besides giving a unique historical and landscape roles in cities.
This tirade was apparently triggered by a local ordinance that requires a permit to cut down a "heritage tree" — one whose trunk diameter exceeds nineteen inches.
The next stop on the old fruit trail was the Tumacácori National Historic Park, where he helped to plant the first heritage tree orchard in 2007, after a few years of field collecting.
Comparisons between the urban- and the heritage-tree populations, and between the LEV of individual species, indicated the uniqueness of heritage species composition and relative landscape-ecological contributions of species groups.
In 2001 she had produced 21 bottles of apple eau de vie to commemorate a project in Switzerland that involved planting heritage apple trees on a remote mountainside.
He said: "When you talk about the heritage of trees and what we have gained from the planting done by the Victorians, my biggest concern is that as those big, landmark trees had to removed en mass, very quickly, we would suddenly be left with a very different urban landscape - one that would be very problematic to replant.
