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Field Maple – 2218

Survey data
Surveyed by: Stephen FosterSurveyed on: 16th June 2015
Number of trees: 15
Tree form: Maiden
Dead or alive: Alive
Standing/fallen: Upright
Access: Public - partial access (e.g. next to footpath or road)

Growing on the tree

  • Lichen
  • Moss, ivy

Signs of animal life

  • Insect boring

Additional comments

1. Ash and Hawthorn by the junction of the North Downs Way and byway to north. Girth of hawthorn: 119cm. Girth of ash: 520cm, (veteran) The trunk of the ash has rotted away to leave two large pieces of trunk with three trunks above 2.5m. Lots of smaller side growths. Insect boring in inner parts of rotted trunk. (P DSCF 5053 and DSCF 5054.)
2. Field maple 10m (e). Girth: 198cm (veteran). Trunk forks at 2.2m (double planted?) Ivy on trunk. (P DSCF 5055)
3. 3 x field maple 25m (w). Two of these trees may share a common root, one is separate. Two trees girth: 255cm and single tree girth:195cm (veterans). There are very large ivy stems on these trunks – on pair of trunks stem = 50cm+, on single trunk stem = 60cm+ circumference. (P DSCF 5056)
4. Field maple 20m (w). Girth:252cm (veteran). Ivy stem on trunk > 1m circumference. (P DSCF 5057)
5. Hawthorn 75m (e). 157cm (veteran). Multiple stems from ground.
6. English oak 20m (e). Maiden. Hole in bark exposes heartwood, trunk branches at 4m. Girth: 328cm. Ivy and lichen on trunk. (P DSCF 5058)
7. 2 x field maple 5m (w). Girth of southern tree: 175cm (veteran). Girth of northern tree: 155cm. Moss and lichen on both trunks.
8. Hawthorn 5m (w). 4 trunks from ground – combined girth:224cm (veteran), largest single trunk: 74cm.
9. Hawthorn opposite above on east side: girth:166cm (veteran). Tree has 6 trunks from ground.
10. Field maple opposite 9 above (i.e. west) Girth: 159cm, trunk forks at 3m.
11. Hawthorn by dene hole (e), 4 stems combined girth: 149cm (veteran). Largest stem girth: 72cm. (P DSCF 5059)

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