Random Arb & Tree Facts

[MATTMOSS]

I thought cordata refered to the leaf shape at the base - cordate?

 

Sorry guys, I should of read the rest of the posts.

[openspaceman]

Cannot verify but they do say the ropes used to transport the stones to Stonehenge were made fom the bark of young Lime trees, they stripped the bark in lengths similar to the way squirrels do and soaked them in the bottom of a watercourse for two weeks then made them into ropes.

 

Yes and this retting step was similar to how linen fibres were extracted from flax ( frown for seed aka linseed).

[openspaceman]

Yews (taxus bacata) are generally found in churchyards as the yew was a pagan meeting place -signifier of life and death for one- and so, to convert pagans to christianity they put a church by the yew to ease the conversion process

 

 

Or was it that generally animals were not allowed to graze in churchyards, were often herded rather than folded or enclosed, and yew is poisonous.

 

Yew woods were the province of the monarch even though by tudor times most bow wood was imported.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

For England I thought the low point was after the iron age and pre roman occupation. One of the attractions of south britain was that it was good arable land for export of ceral crops to replace land over cropped and ruined in North Africa.

 

intersting, where do you get that from?

[RobArb]

by the way, the mystery ailanthus was a black walnut!

 

woop woop I was right:biggrin:

 

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[Daniël Bos]

Or was it that generally animals were not allowed to graze in churchyards, were often herded rather than folded or enclosed, and yew is poisonous.

 

 

Even the dumbest of livestock know that yew is poisonous and will not touch it. Sheep are often used to graze churchyards, yew present or not.

[RobArb]

I thought cordata refered to the leaf shape at the base - cordate?

 

It does, read above:biggrin:

 

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[MATTMOSS]

It does, read above:biggrin:

 

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Ha Ha I'm not the only one who does it then? read above!

[RobArb]

does what, I'm confused now?

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

does what, I'm confused now?

 

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does what, not read the previous posts before responding:lol:

 

bimbo!