Quarr Abbey, Isle of Wight

[armybloke]

Saw this tree and thought of you.......all.

 

A nice old oak on stilts - who said you can't retain unusual trees?

[David Humphries]

Any close ups Marco?

 

 

 

 

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[armybloke]

Regrettably no - however I am going back over the water in a week or so and will catch some then. I was out with the family and the twins were distracting me with their rendition of 'school jokes'!!

[David Humphries]

Can't quite make out what's going on here

 

 

Is it a huge cavity with seperated buttresses?

 

& is there something inside?

 

 

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[armybloke]

Tree has four 'stilts' the centre is completely void and the wood occluded to form the legs. I reckon (theory) that innonotus dryadius attacked the base in the good old days and its survived by CODIT. I will make sure I go back and get some close-ups for you. If you ever venture across the water Osborne House and Quarr Abbey have some fab trees!

[armybloke]

David, I think what you can 'see' behind it is the other leg. Each keg was a different size and at the base of a couple of legs are what 'appears' to be the roots that have occluded as stumps. I am a numpty for not taking more interest but when you are out with the family i got too distracted with them and not by trees - I was having a day off......

[David Humphries]

  armybloke said:

I am a numpty for not taking more interest but when you are out with the family i got too distracted with them and not by trees - I was having a day off......

 

Fail

 

 

 

[Stephen Blair]

It looks like there should be a huge rock in the middle, to create that, but there isn't!

What a fantastic tree!

[martwizz]

Found this thread while searching through some old Isle of Wight threads. I took some pictures of this tree last year. Hopefully some of the users who posted can finally enjoy them!

[arbogrunt]

what an awesome tree, must go and see that next time I'm on the Isel of widget