Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version

[sime42]

3 minutes ago, tree-fancier123 said:

a knackered old sycamore with new healthy stems growing up through the hollow trunk (and out through a hole at the side)

 

Interesting. Looks quite visceral somehow.

[Gavint]

On vacation in Italy, in the Apennine mountains not far from Florence in May this year.

 

Right where we were staying was a copse of I'm guessing 600 year old chestnuts, some with over 4 m circumference.  The whole area is abandoned cultural landscape, with grown over coppiced oak forestry with these ancient chestnuts thrown in for fun.  They would have been used by the hill farmers as a source of food for generations.  They're being encroached upon by the surrounding forest, new oaks growing up through them.

 

 

[Doug Tait]

Went to visit a couple of notable trees today with a mate, not too far from home. Oaks, survivors of the long lost Jed Forest, both looking very healthy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Doug Tait]

And close by the Capon Tree is another.

 

 

 

[WirralBoy]

[organic guy]

Dartmoor, not enormous but how old?

[sime42]

3 hours ago, organic guy said:

Dartmoor, not enormous but how old?

 

A good couple of hundred I'd hazard, being Dartmoor.