Big Trees. Photos please.

[7610]

I was inspired today by a big tree in Beaford. Any photos of any welcome.

[mdvaden]

I was inspired today by a big tree in Beaford. Any photos of any welcome.

 

 

I post so many in the coast redwood thread, I will see what others come up with. Although I might look through folders for another of a different species.

[treesrus]

came across this monster oak behind a customers house. difficult to appreciate the volume of wood in its belly....

[Jon Heuch]

Sorry I don't have a picture of the top 50 metres. Ceiba spp if you're interested - Bia National Park, western Ghana. I thought it was pentandra (kapok) but on checking that's native to America so it's either another species or a weed

[Jon Heuch]

mind you if you're really interested in big trees you need to consider the great Banyan of Calcutta botanic garden:

 

http://tinyurl.com/zrvof55

 

Google street view (watch the blue dots) actually takes you inside....I can't find the main stem. Not quite a traditional large tree but does win the award for greatest canopy cover......100 metres diameter.....possibly almost 1 ha for the whole tree?

[DeltaBravo]

wow, huuuge tree!!!

[se7enthdevil]

Sorry I don't have a picture of the top 50 metres. Ceiba spp if you're interested - Bia National Park, western Ghana. I thought it was pentandra (kapok) but on checking that's native to America so it's either another species or a weed

 

 

here is an excerpt from the prota4u web page for ceiba pentandra.

 

original page.http://www.prota4u.info/protav8.asp?h=M4&t=Ceiba,pentandra&p=Ceiba+pentandra

 

 

Ceiba pentandra originated in the American tropics. Its natural distribution has been obscured by its widespread introduction after about 1500. Although it has been described as introduced by humans in tropical Africa, there is no historical evidence of such introduction, and there is strong ecological, botanical and cytological evidence that the tree is native to western and central Africa. The dispersal mechanism by which the tree may have crossed the Atlantic Ocean is uncertain, but the fruits float and might have been transported by ocean currents. It has been argued that the tree was domesticated in West Africa, from where it spread to East Africa and Asia. It is now cultivated all over the tropics, but mainly in South-East Asia, especially in Indonesia and Thailand. In tropical Africa the tree appears to be native from Cape Verde eastwards to Chad and southwards to Angola. In addition, there are records of the species in 13 other countries in East and southern Africa (including South Africa) and the Indian Ocean islands, but the tree has probably been planted in all other tropical African countries as well.

 

 

it is often known as a variety C. pentandra var. guineensis so it may be kapok after all.

[se7enthdevil]

this one's within walking distance for me.

 

possibly the oldest tulip tree in the country.

 

 

The Woodland Trust | Ancient Tree Hunt | Tree details

 

 

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[Mick Dempsey]

Ive seen that tree...

[Mark Bolam]

When you planted it?