Streets, Trees, and Street Names

Discover the tree-related roads and districts in Singapore, and find out more about how these namesakes look like!

Many of us know the beloved and iconic “Five Dollar Tree” at the Singapore Botanic Gardens. We also may know that this tree is known by the name “tembusu”. Some may even know that there is a Tembusu Ave, Tembusu Rd, and a Tembusu Dr on Jurong Island, or that there is a Jalan Tembusu off Haig Rd in the East. Fewer still may know that the cluster of streets around Jl Tembusu, which include Jl Gajus, Jl Binjai, and Seraya Crescent and Seraya Ln, are all named after local trees.

Just how many of these tree-related roads and districts are there, and what do their namesakes look like? There are fair few streets named after trees in Singapore, as we’ll discover in this talk!

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