Trees in trees

[Gary Prentice]

2 hours ago, Will Heal said:

I think a tree has to be the same species to graft onto another.

So Oak (Fagaceae), Quercus and holly (Aquafoliaceae) Ilex  definitely won't graft? 

 

[ABtrees]

1 hour ago, Gary Prentice said:

Never say never! These photos came up on UKTC this afternoon!

 

The photographer is going back to look again, there's talk that the holly seed started to grow in a fissure in the bark and then the oak has encapsulated it, or it might have naturally grafted to it and the holly is living hemiparasitically on the oak?

 

 Trees just love to prove the experts wrong  

How bizarre - that has absolutely made my day.  I have a holly tree in the process of being swallowed by an oak (about another 50 yrs !!!) but this is (completely different and) exactly what I meant. 

[Stubby]

Not really  a tree in a tree but my mate has a really old apple tree and there is a cavity at about chest height were a limb has come off and in the mush inside , each spring there sprouts some daffodils . I really like it .  Sorry no pics .

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[Shane]

2 hours ago, Gary Prentice said:

Never say never! These photos came up on UKTC this afternoon!

 

The photographer is going back to look again, there's talk that the holly seed started to grow in a fissure in the bark and then the oak has encapsulated it, or it might have naturally grafted to it and the holly is living hemiparasitically on the oak?

 

 Trees just love to prove the experts wrong  

The original Quercus Ilex?????????????