Using botanic gardens and arboreta to help identify urban trees for the future

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. © 2020 The Authors, Plants, People, Planet © New Phytologist Foundation 1University Centre Myerscough, Preston, UK 2Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK 3St Andrews Botanic Garden, St Andrews, UK 4University of Liverpool, Ness Botanic Gardens, Cheshire, UK 5The Morton Arboretum, Center for Tree Science, Lisle, IL, USA 6Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, UK 7Horticulture Section, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA 8SLU Alnarp, Alnarp, Sweden 9Gothenburg Botanical Garden, Gothenburg, Sweden 10Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden

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