Editing Southsea (section)

===Trees===
[[File:Den Haag at Southsea.jpg|thumb|''[[Ulmus pumila]]'' hybrid]]
[[File:Southsea Beach.JPG|thumbnail|Southsea Beach]]
[[File:Peter Sellers Birthplace Portsmouth.jpg|thumb|[[Peter Sellers]]' birthplace on the corner of Castle Road and Southsea Terrace. The blue plaques read "Peter Sellers, Actor and Comedian was born here"]]
[[File:Southsea War Memorial - geograph.org.uk - 1297412.jpg|thumb|Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Southsea]]

The common is home to a collection of mature [[elm]] trees, believed to be the oldest and largest surviving in Hampshire, which have escaped [[Dutch elm disease]] owing to their isolation. The majority of the larger trees are [[Huntingdon Elm]]s planted in the 1920s, but nearer the entrance to the Skate Park there is a fine example of a hybrid of the Siberian Elm ''[[Ulmus pumila]]''. Huntingdon Elms once lined the Ladies' Mile—an avenue through the centre of the Common—but many were lost in the [[Great Storm of 1987]] and replaced by the Dutch [[hybrid (biology)|hybrid]] elm cultivar [[Ulmus 'Lobel'|'Lobel']].<ref name="Common">{{Cite news |url=http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/nostalgia/the-southsea-trees-which-escaped-disease-but-not-hurricane-1-6142130 |title=Southsea Common Trees |publisher=Portsmouth News |access-date=29 March 2015}}</ref>

The Ladies' Mile is also home to several semi-mature Canary Island date palms ''[[Phoenix canariensis]]''. Planted in 1996, these palms are now some of the largest in the UK and for the last few years have fruited and produced viable seed, the first time this species of palm has been recorded doing so in the UK. Other palms growing close to the Common include ''[[Trachycarpus fortunei]]'', (Ladies' Mile, Rock Gardens and Rose Garden), ''[[Chamaerops humilis]]'' (in front of the Pyramids Centre), ''[[Butia capitata]]'' (in Burgoyne Gardens) and ''[[Brahea armata]]'', (Canoe Lake and D-Day Island). Many ''[[Cordyline australis]]'' are also planted in the area, though these are not true palms, but more closely related to yuccas and agaves.<ref name="Common" />