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Apomictic Whitebeams endemic to the British Isles: Sorbus arranensis – Isle of Arran only. Arran Service Tree – Isle of Arran only. Sorbus pseudomeinichii - Isle of Arran only. Lancashire Whitebeam - North Lancashire & South Cumbria, around Morecambe Bay only. English Whitebeam - Great Britain and Ireland only. Bristol Whitebeam - Avon ...
Newton's Apple Tree, Woolsthorpe Manor. Metasequoia at Emmanuel College, Britain's first Dawn Redwood, in Cambridge University Botanic Garden; Great London Plane of Ely, Britain's first London Plane in Ely, Cambridgeshire; Newton's Apple Tree in Woolsthorpe Manor, Grantham, Lincolnshire; Bowthorpe Oak in Bourne, Lincolnshire; Kett's Oak in ...
The tree is very difficult to measure accurately due to the presence of multiple offshoots, and has sustained significant damage in the past. Bowthorpe Oak: English oak (English oak) 13.33 43.7 Bourne, Lincolnshire: This famous tree is often mistakenly considered the widest tree in the UK. Estimates of its age vary wildly from 600 years to 1300 ...
Britain's native tree flora comprises 32 species, of which 29 are broadleaves. The UK's industry and populace uses at least 50 million tonnes of timber a year. More than 75% of this is softwood, and British forests cannot supply the demand; in fact, less than 10% of the timber used in Britain is home-grown.
The Tree Register, or more fully, the Tree Register of the British Isles (T.R.O.B.I.), is a registered charity [2] run by volunteers, collating and updating a database of notable trees throughout Britain and Ireland. It comprises a computer database which in 2022 contained details of 250,000 trees.
Dendrology (Ancient Greek: δένδρον, dendron, "tree"; and Ancient Greek: -λογία, -logia, science of or study of) or xylology (Ancient Greek: ξύλον, ksulon, "wood") is the science and study of woody plants (trees, shrubs, and lianas), specifically, their taxonomic classifications. [1]
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The second source tree is known locally as the Lynfields Elm, near Witham. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Released in 2010, the saplings are described by the nursery that marketed them as "English elm". [ 3 ] [ 1 ] A 2010 genetic test referred to them as "English Elm ( U. procera )", an identification presumably supplied by the nursery itself. [ 8 ]