Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version

[Dan Maynard]

  On 14/05/2023 at 21:24, Doug Tait said:

It's great for you the kids are at the right age Steve.

If I openly took pics of the hairy fairy on her knees like that they'd call me creepy, kick me out and the law would probably come. But have kids of the right age with you and suddenly you're the 'nice dad, awww'.

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Don't Google hairy fairy either......

[devon TWiG]

Not sure if it is "remarkable " but a very interesting specimen .....Scots Pine on a railway bank ...

[sime42]

So how big or old do Sycamores get then?

I saw this contender at the weekend, largest I've seen certainly. At least 5 ft DBH I reckon.

 

[sime42]

[Stere]

Think ive seen a few  ones about that size on estate parkland

 

Some very big ones about:

 

 

 

Sycamore Maples (Acer pseudoplatanus) in the United Kingdom

WWW.MONUMENTALTREES.COM

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sime42]

Cheers. There's some big'uns listed on there. The one I spotted should have a few more years and feet of girth left in it yet then.

 

 

[Steve Bullman]

  On 30/05/2023 at 06:57, sime42 said:

Cheers. There's some big'uns listed on there. The one I spotted should have a few more years and feet of girth left in it yet then.

 

 

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You don’t get mainly truly enormous sycamores but when you do they are a hard slog to get around  

[oldwoodcutter]

Not something you see everyday, sycamore and Scot’s pine welded together, dead man’s plantation, cockley cley.

[slack ma girdle]

Juniper growing out of reach of the grazing zone near the Witches Step on Arran

[daltontrees]

  On 29/05/2023 at 21:48, sime42 said:

So how big or old do Sycamores get then?

I saw this contender at the weekend, largest I've seen certainly. At least 5 ft DBH I reckon.

 

 

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In Scotland there are a few at 2.4m diameter.