Champion Quercus sp ?

[Samuel]

great photos and that is an amazing looking tree:biggrin:

[David Humphries]

Fine looking old x hispanica there.

Nice find Tr.

 

Read somewhere that Mr L liked the tree so much that he felled the original one to use the wood for his coffin.

 

Your shots look like the canopy is quite sparse?

 

 

There's at least three forms as far as I know (maybe others?)

 

Q x hispanica 'Lucombeana'

Q x hispanica 'Fulhamensis'

Q x hispanica 'Diversifolia'

 

We have a line of Lucombes which has a good sized Fulham in it.

No where near the size of your fine example.

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/tree-health-care/957-fracture-pruning-retrenchment-fulham-oak.html

 

 

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[gibbon]

Not a champion Lucombe though. The biggest by girth was in Phear Park in Exmouth till it fell over last winter, I think they had the second largest by girth there too which would be the now champion. The tallest is in Bicton Park I believe. There are some real big Lucombes in Devon, 30m not at all unusual

[tommer9]

Read somewhere that Mr L liked the tree so much that he felled the original one to use the wood for his coffin.

 

 

 

 

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This is the case I believe David. Wiiiam Lucombe was a vicar i Believe, and kept the boards under his bed for years and years till it was time.....as 't'were:001_smile: Phear Park is the place to see them.

[toprotter]

Bender

will have a look when next there they moved it for a building I think?

Monkey-D

round the base outside no peeling bark and looks in good health at a glance ,oozing exudate when I climbed inside and signs of fruiting bodies in a decomposed state also had a dig around outside and could not find any rhizomorphs. phenology in motion!

Gibbon/Arbgirl

She be in Devon

Tommer9

102 Mr L died but he out lived his boards as they rotted in the devon damp !

[BenR]

Bender

will have a look when next there they moved it for a building I think?

Monkey-D

round the base outside no peeling bark and looks in good health at a glance ,oozing exudate when I climbed inside and signs of fruiting bodies in a decomposed state also had a dig around outside and could not find any rhizomorphs. phenology in motion!

Gibbon/Arbgirl

She be in Devon

Tommer9

102 Mr L died but he out lived his boards as they rotted in the devon damp !

 

To my knowledge thats about right. It interfered with the vista down to the pagoda.

 

There is a plaque that explains it all.

[tommer9]

Tommer9

102 Mr L died but he out lived his boards as they rotted in the devon damp !

 

:thumbup1:I love the story of Mr L- thats a nice little extra i didnt know of!

[lyons e]

nice,

[gibbon]

 

She be in Devon

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Escot?

[Arbgirl]

I be in Devon, so fancied a look at that amazing tree, plus I am always on the lookout for old and interesting trees to show my students! :-)