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{{Short description|Canadian children's television series}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox television
| image        = UmbrellaTree30.jpg
| caption      = [[Title card]] for the 30-minute specials
| runtime      = 15 minutes<br/>30 minutes (specials)
| creator      = [[Noreen Young]]
| starring     = {{Plainlist|
* [[Holly Larocque]]
* [[Bob Stutt]]
* Stephen Brathwaite
* [[Noreen Young]]
}}
| country      = Canada
| network      = {{ubl|[[CBC Television|CBC]] (Canada)|[[The Disney Channel]] (US)}}
| first_aired  = {{Start date|1987|10|5}}
| last_aired   = {{End date|1993|6|20}}
| company      = {{Plainlist|
* CBC Television
* Noreen Young Productions
}}
| num_episodes = 285
}}

'''''Under the Umbrella Tree''''' is a Canadian [[children's television series]] created by [[Noreen Young]] that originally aired on [[CBC Television|CBC]] from 1987 to 1993. It was produced by CBC and Noreen Young Productions, and later by [[The Disney Channel]], which began airing it on May 7, 1990.<ref>''The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 8, no. 2 (typo in magazine: should be "no. 3"), May/June 1990: pp. 37, 45.</ref>

The series centers on a quartet of main characters who share a house on Spring Street in a suburb of [[Ottawa|Ottawa, Ontario]]. The characters include Holly (a human), Iggy (an [[Green iguana|iguana]]), Jacob (a [[blue jay]]), and Gloria (a [[gopher (animal)|gopher]]). The show's title is derived from the fact that the characters live together in a home featuring a prominent indoor [[Heptapleurum actinophyllum|umbrella tree]].

When production of the show ended in 1993, syndication continued on The Disney Channel and [[Canal Famille]] until 1997. Twenty-seven episodes of the show were released to DVD by Cinerio Entertainment in partnership with Noreen Young in 2006, following a long wait for expiration of ownership rights. In 2019, Gloria, Iggy and Jacob were featured in episode 1 of ''[[Cavendish (TV series)|Cavendish]]'', in Andy and Mark's childhood bedroom.
In 2020, the original cast ([[Holly Larocque]], [[Noreen Young]], Stephen Brathwaite and [[Bob Stutt]]) reunited to make a video called ''Under the Umbrella Tree: The Mask Special'', which was uploaded to YouTube<ref>{{cite AV media|date=September 26, 2020|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzLxslAlxSA|title=Under the Umbrella Tree: The Mask Special|publisher=tbonepearson|via=[[YouTube]]|access-date=August 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424224857/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzLxslAlxSA|archive-date=April 24, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> and Facebook.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1416662075189886 {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}}</ref>