Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version

[Erik]

The largest tree on my parcel.  

 

 

 

Edited August 12, 2018 by Erik

[Tom Richards]

Here are a few from today's visit to oxford .

2nd  is a monster black walnut

3rd is a really nice cork oak 

1st is a sorbus domestica nice size tree around 150years old althoughh the photos not great

Edited August 13, 2018 by Tom Richards
Photos in wrong order

[Tom Richards]

[Steve Bullman]

A quite impressive Plane tree at Canterbury.  Absolutely massive trunk and pretty stunted growth.  I assume it was pollarded a long time ago.  Not sure if its a London Plane or another.

 

 

[Mark J]

51 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

A quite impressive Plane tree at Canterbury.  Absolutely massive trunk and pretty stunted growth.  I assume it was pollarded a long time ago.  Not sure if its a London Plane or another.

 

 

It's a Baobab Plane by the looks of it.  http://elmparadise.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-baobab-planes-of-canterbury.html
 

[Steve Bullman]

19 minutes ago, Mark J said:

It's a Baobab Plane by the looks of it.  http://elmparadise.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-baobab-planes-of-canterbury.html
 

More of a nickname than an actual variety of I’m reading it right?

[Mark J]

There was a thread on here a while ago about the same trees in London.

 

 

Edited August 20, 2018 by Mark J

[Mark J]

23 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

More of a nickname than an actual variety of I’m reading it right?

http://www.canterbury-archaeology.org.uk/trees/4590809565

It may be Oriental Plane : Platanus orientalis. I'm not sure.

 

 

Edited August 20, 2018 by Mark J

[Stumpy Grinder]

Saw this last week in Bildeston Suffolk.  A sizeable fig tree which just appears out of a brick wall!

nothing on the other side of the wall either! You can see some roots going down around the bricks but no damage to the wall. Weird!?

[sean]

Bet they’ve had a few sleepless nights over the years!!!