• Yellow highlighted are the trees with edible leaves utilized for cooking and food.

Tree species available at the Rahma Food Forest, 3100 South Salina St, Syracuse, NY:

• 4-in-1 Apple (Malus) tree
• Asian pear (Pyrus pyrifolia)
• Medlar (Mespilus germanica)
• Pawpaw (Asimina triloba)
• Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas)
• Black mulberry (Morus nigra)
  • Mulberry trees are known for its berries, but the leaves can also be eaten
  • Leaves must be cooked before eaten, typically boiled
    • Only young, curled leaves recommended
  • Added to soups and salads
  • Can be stuffed (similar to vine leaves)
  • Used to make tea
  • Time to Harvest: spring, summer, fall
• Black cherry (Prunus serotina)
• Staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina)
• Honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos)
• Serviceberry (Amelanchier)
• Basswood (Tilia americana)
  • Salad ingredient, can be eaten raw
  • Used to make tea
  • “the only known indigenous group to consume these leaves was the Ojibwa”
  • Time to Harvest: spring, summer, fall
• Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
  • Can cook young leaves as you would spinach
  • Salad ingredient

Tree species on the approved Syracuse, NY city list for street tree planting:

• Small parkstrips (4 ft wide & wider)
  • Golden Raintree
  • Lavelle Hawthorn
  • English Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)
    • Native to Europe, but naturalized in the U.S. and Canada
    • The fruit is well known as a food and ingredient for jams/ jellies, but the leaves also made a hedgerow snack
    • Salad ingredient
  • Bechtel Crabapple
  • Redbud Crabapple
  • Dorothea Crabapple
  • Japanese Crabapple
  • Radiant Crabapple
  • Snow drift Crabapple
  • Scarlet Hawthorn
  • Golden Chain Tree
  • Rocky Maple
  • Paperbark Maple
  • Bigtooth Maple
  • Kwanzan Cherry
  • Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
    • As noted above
  • Globe Norway Maple
  • Bradford Pear
• Medium parkstrip (6 ft wide & wider)
  • Japanese Pagoda
  • Fruitless Mulberry
  • Mountain Alder Hedge
  • Maple Callery Pear
  • Variegated Box Elder
  • Mountain Ash Upright
  • English Oak (Quercus robur)
  • Chinaberry
  • Chanticleer Pear
  • Sunburst Honey Locust
  • Idaho Flowering Locust
• Large parkstrip (10 ft wide & wider)
  • Common Hackberry
  • Thornless Honey Locust
  • Chinese Pistache
  • Bur Oak
  • Norway Maple
  • Red Maple
    • Large, fibrous leaves are used to make a traditional snack in Minoh City, Japan – sugar, red and silver maples can be used to follow the same recipe.
      • First, the leaves are covered in salt and left in a sealed container in a cool, dark space for 10 months.
      • Second, the leaves are then coated in batter and fried.
  • Littleleaf Linden (Tilia cordata)
    • Salad ingredient
    • Younger leaves recommended
    • Source of antioxidants
  • Crimean Linden
  • Japanese Zelkova
  • Ginko
  • Horse Chestnut
  • Northern Oak
  • London Plane Tree
  • European Beech (Fagus sylvatica)
    • Can be picked and eaten raw
    • Salad ingredient
    • Youngest leaves recommended (older ones become tough quickly)
  • Sweet Gum
  • Tulip
  • Sycamore Maple
  • Sugar Maple
    • As noted above
  • White Ash
  • White Oak
  • Black Locust
  • Horsechestnut
  • Golden Rain