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Sweet Chestnut – 524

Survey data
Surveyed by: Nigel Heriz-SmithSurveyed on: 4th September 2012
Number of trees: 1
Girth: 4.9m
Tree form: Maiden
Dead or alive: Alive
Standing/fallen: Upright
Access: Private - not visible from public access (permission required to view)

This tree's story

None

Growing on the tree

  • Lichen
  • Fungi

Signs of animal life

  • Insect boring
  • Bird nesting
  • Bat roost or potential bat roost

Additional comments

Recorded because of it is a magnificent, gnarled, complex, thick-limbed and contorted example standing openly in a grazing meadow, close to Provender House and garden. A maiden with a classic shape and buttressing. Showing its age through die-back, depredation and cut lower branches. Deeply fissured ‘twisting’ bark. Heavy laterals with characteristic thickening ‘jetties’ underneath with complex shapes of bark flowing around the limbs.

Location

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