Beech graft?

[SJH]

Saw this tree the other day, its quite a big Beech that was very healthy, looks like it could be a graft, didnt get any pics of the full tree, I'll have to try and get some next time I pass by.

 

[Mark T]

Thats great... where is it?

[SJH]

Its a street tree in Manchester, Its a nice tree tbh

[Mark Bolam]

Ring of foreign object within?

[Bundle 2]

".........Its a nice tree tbh "

 

You coulda fooled me. That is ugly. No, fugly; no wait...even frugly! A range of opinion and admittedly I can see only what I see in the image....But it is enough.

A Helliwell score would surely suffer.

[danbrown87]

Trees are amazing, another fine example. Probably never know exactly why it's done that, but I'm sure it has its reasons.

[Amelanchier]

That is indeed a graft. The scion has outgrown the stock. IIRC there's some pictures in Lonsdale.

[SJH]

Cheers for that Tony.

Bundle 2, frugly I like it, well its amazing how many people just walk past it and dont even notice it, or even wonder why its grown like that, so you could be right its so frugly that folk dont even want to look at it lol.