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Things I learned:

Enfield Chace used to be rather larger; Southgate, which is now a tube station, is so named because it was once the South Gate of the Chace. We were given a slightly dubious etymology for the name Enfield, which I've not been able to source, but does mean that I've now found that Its name most likely came from Anglo-Saxon Ēanafeld or similar, meaning "open land belonging to a man called Ēana" or "open land for lambs".
There was a fascinating pine tree that didn't have a leader (i.e. it just sort of all spread out) AND was "cannibalistic": (terminal) cones grow at the end of growing branches, then branches just... grow through them and keep going. (Picea abies 'Acrocona'??? Picea abies 'Inversa'??? I have now spent Some Time trying to work this out based on the tree map and satellite photography, and mostly I am annoyed at myself for not having taken proper notes. Tentatively going for "maybe 'Inversa', but I need to revisit it".)
Lots of swamp cyprus that we were encouraged to touch, to my delight: I always feel a bit guilty about touching Official Plants, because What If Not Allow, but we were actively encouraged to do so and it made me Happy.
Metasequoia glyptostroboides, notable for being a living fossil and also endangered and also being cultivated to be an exciting variety of colours (we particularly had a baby 'Gold Rush' pointed out to us).
Picea omorika, theoretically the species used by Stradivarius, of particular interest because we were there As An Orchestra.
I looked at the bendy hornbeam (C.b. 'Pendula'?) and thought "huh, Corylus avellana 'Contorta'"; C.b. 'Fastigiata' also excellent in terms of shape)
... Eucalyptus will just like volatilise combustible gas and just... explode, which I had not quite put together.
... there was probably more but I have now left it Some Time, so, here you go, here's a first pass on Trees.