Ah yes, you must be right. Your link leads to the same but different (and slower!) site with the same holes: https://maps.london.gov.uk/trees/
Still a pretty amazing map!
I turns out this Poplar never recovered from it’s pollarding and has been turned into a stump having been removed earlier in the week 
I see the Horniman have put a bit more info on some of their trees and locations:
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There are wild service trees in One Tree Hill Nature Reserve (along with plenty of fine oaks apart from the Honor one). These are pretty rare and a strong indicator species of ancient woodland (in the seedbase at least which is the important part). Sadly, Southwark council proceed to remove as many trees and topsoil around the reserve as possible as they are more focussed on unsustainable burial than greenspace.
There is a huge, very old, field maple in the Buckthorne Cutting Nature Reserve - very impressive. A giant redwood in Walters Way (as well as one next to New Cross Gate station).
Have always enjoyed the look of the pair of trees which have been trained to form an arch leading to the flats roughly opposite c.100 Devonshire Road. Not sure what these are - London Planes perhaps?
Slightly further afield, apart from the Dutch Elm in Ladywell fields already mentioned, there is a really impressive Turkey Oak in Dulwich Park - easy to spot if you walk the main perimiter path not too far from the tennis courts.
Then there is the mulberry that has found itself, bizarrely, in Pine Tree Way in Lewisham. Not a pine in sight.
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“Wonderful proof that ‘Perry Village’ is not a rebranding and predates any users of this forum”
That is not Perry Village, it is Perry Villas, Perry Vale where M. Cartwright Haughton Esq. lived. Info from Burt’s Sydenham and Forest Hill guide and directory page 87.
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Pre-lockdown, I went on a walk around Perry Hill that I think was organised by The Forest Hill Society but stand ready to be corrected. Whoever did it really knew his stuff.
The walk was great and pointed out architecture and trees that I had passed thousands of times but had never really noticed before.
When coming up Perry Hill from the station, just past the bike shop and the entrance to the Linear Park, there’s a little estate set back from the road. Within that estate are some amazing trees, as they were kept when the original houses there were demolished.
The speaker told us that these trees pre-date the railway and were a sign of the wealth of the owners. With no trains to reach Catford/Forest Hill from Central London, only the very wealthy could live here, as they had the carriages to travel.
Apparently, the trees were a status symbol - the more exotic the better. So, keeping up with the Jones was alive and well in the 19th Century!
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