East Orange, NJ Invasive Plant Rules: Prohibited Species (2026)

East Orange City Code § 51-193N(2), part of the Tree Nuisance and Protection subsection of the Landscaping article in Chapter 51 Land Use, designates Mulberry, Wild cherry and Sumac, which the code calls 'stink weed,' as nuisance trees prohibited from being planted on any property within the City of East Orange. The prohibition reaches every property, not just sites under active site plan review, and the section adds that none of the three species may be substituted as a replacement tree under the mandatory replanting schedule in Subsection M(9), which otherwise requires replacing 20% to 80% of the trees a development removes.

The nuisance designation sits alongside the section's affirmative preferred tree list in Subsection M(4), which recommends species such as red maple, sweetgum, green ash and Japanese zelkova for street planting and katsura tree, yellowwood and fringetree for private property, so an applicant submitting a required landscaping plan under Subsection B must choose replacement or new stock from outside the three named nuisance species. Because the rule sits in the general landscaping section rather than a standalone invasive-species ordinance, it is enforced the same way as the rest of § 51-193: through site plan and landscape plan review by the Site Plan Review Advisory Committee, and through the general violation clause in Subsection R.