Talal Amin * ⁽¹⁾, Maher Laffah ⁽²⁾, and Raneem Hassoun ⁽¹⁾

(1) Department of Environment and Forestry, Faculty of Agriculture, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria.

(2) Faculty of Architecture, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria.

(*Corresponding author: Raneem Hassoun, E-Mail: raneem92ha@hotmail.com).

Received:2/009/2021          Accepted: 3/01/2022

Abstract:

The study was carried out in 2019 with the aim of evaluating the ideality of plant species in street trees in situ of the streets of the city of Jableh. Al-Amara street was studied as a model because it is the most crowded and lively street in the city. The results of the study showed the presence of 328 plants distributed between trees and shrubs belonging to 12 plant species and distributed among 11 plant families. Nerium oleander occupied the largest percentage among the cultivated species, with percentage reached 54.6% of the total cultivated species, and Melia azedarach and Hibiscus rosa-sinensis came in the second place with a percentage of 12.2%. Tree species, including the Melia azedarach, Ficus nitida, and Washingtonia filifera, were planted on both sides of the street. The study of the preferential value of the trees according to (Lee et al., 2011) showed that Melia azedarach got the highest preferential value (7.72) out of 10 degrees, followed by the Washingtonia filifera (7.3) and F. nitida got the lowest preferential value (5.8). The study showed that the M. azedarach was the best as a street tree, while the F. nitida was the least efficient in its current condition. It is recommended to plant the empty areas on both sides of the street and take care of the existing trees; especially the appropriate pruning, also it is recommended to plant the middle island with a smaller number of homogeneous plant species like Dodonaea and oleander or others with its formation as a vegetative wall or in the form of intermittent groups with an appropriate formation that achieves an appropriate coordination value.

Keywords: urban afforestation, Melia azedarach, street tree.

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