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Presently, a regularly-updated database of the UK's widest trees by girth is kept by the user-run website Monumental Trees. [1] Width is not indicative of tree volume, however. The largest oak tree, as well as the tallest, in the UK has long been believed to be the Majesty Oak in Kent, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] however its 12.2m girth is exceeded by multiple ...
The Great British Trees were 50 trees selected by The Tree Council in 2002 to spotlight trees in the United Kingdom in honour of the Queen's Golden Jubilee. [1]
The tree has a girth of 14.02 metres (46.0 ft) measured at 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) off the ground, making it the UK's largest and widest tree since the collapse of the Newland Oak in Gloucestershire, [1] [2] [3] surpassing trees such as the Bowthorpe Oak in Lincolnshire and the three large sweet chestnut trees at Canford School, Dorset. [3]
Britain and Ireland have few endemic trees, most being micro-species of Whitebeam. But there are some interesting endemic trees nevertheless. 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.
The Bowthorpe Oak The trunk. Bowthorpe Oak in Manthorpe near Bourne, Lincolnshire, is a gigantic and ancient pedunculate oak in England.The tree has a circumference of about 44 feet (13 metres) and has a hollow trunk, making it the second-widest individual tree in the UK, only surpassed by the significantly older and much less-intact Marton Oak in Cheshire. [1]
It was voted 'England's Tree of the Year' in 2014, and came sixth in the European Tree of the Year finals in 2015. [ 5 ] [ 2 ] The threat to the Major Oak from fracking is the subject of a song by English musician Beans on Toast on his 2017 album Cushty .
As part of Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2002, the Big Belly Oak was named as one of 50 Great British Trees, a collection of significant trees in the United Kingdom. The Big Belly Oak is a sessile oak tree (Quercus petraea). It is enormously fat, with a maximum girth of 11.18 metres at a height of 1.20m. [3]
One trunk of the Fortingall Yew. The tree's once massive trunk (52 ft or 16 m in girth when it was first recorded in writing, in 1769 [5]) with a former head of unknown original height, is split into several separate stems, giving the impression of several smaller trees, with loss of the heartwood rings that would establish its true age. [6]