What is a pollard?

[Daniël Bos]

Yew?.

[Chris at eden]

Yew?.

 

Good call. Knew someone would catch me out when i said it.

[Chris at eden]

In general - broadleaf.

[Paul Melarange]

Good call. Knew someone would catch me out when i said it.

 

I wouldn't say that you were caught out. Yew is a Taxad (Order Taxales), not a conifer (Order Coniferales). So you what you said was correct! 😀

[Chris at eden]

I wouldn't say that you were caught out. Yew is a Taxad (Order Taxales), not a conifer (Order Coniferales). So you what you said was correct! 😀

 

I thought Taxales had been scrapped as an order with Yew now included in Pinales

[MATTMOSS]

Chris. I was once told in a classroom that you don't know what pollarding is. So how can you comment? Ha ha

[Paul Melarange]

I thought Taxales had been scrapped as an order with Yew now included in Pinales

 

Actually I think you are right Chris...oops That will teach me for relying solely Alan Mitchell's 'Trees of Britain & Northern Europe'. Nomeclature changes at such a rate, it's hardly suprising that his book written in 1974 is incorrect. I should have known better Apologies for confusing matters

[woodyguy]

I've got several conifers pollards. They're six foot tall and next to each other. Leylandii I think?

[Chris at eden]

Chris. I was once told in a classroom that you don't know what pollarding is. So how can you comment? Ha ha

 

Yeah it was me that told ya. I knew I shouldn't have been reading those comments out to the group cos I thought they were funny. To be fair though mate I think he was saying that the majority of L6 students did not know what pollard was.

[Chris at eden]

Actually I think you are right Chris...oops That will teach me for relying solely Alan Mitchell's 'Trees of Britain & Northern Europe'. Nomeclature changes at such a rate, it's hardly suprising that his book written in 1974 is incorrect. I should have known better Apologies for confusing matters

 

I know, nightmare. I read the other day that they are going to scrap Latin names for all new plants, algae and fungi. Not relevant anymore apparently. The new international language is English so that is what they are going to use. I hope its a spoof to be fair, I like the fancy names.