Wow that’s quite a specimen Harvestman, it looks like that is the result of pollarding, what’s the tree, is it ash? -- I saw a great old pollarded oak tree near the Kymin by Monmouth a couple of years ago which is unusual because it actually shows on the OS map (it’s about one kilometre east of the kymin on the left hand side of the A4136 by Broadstone farm) Thanks for posting
it's a black poplar harvestman, i've just found it on the woodland trust site, and yes it is the result of pollarding as i suspected, here's the photo on wd site
Here's one in Lisbon.
Although I'm not sure wether it's a burl
if it was more remote it would be a target for the burl bandits (i'm not kidding there really is such a thing, well in california anyhow burl bandits ) Thanks for posting.Your welcome, I recently saw a program involving burl hunters, after hearing what some went for I though there must be some black market stuff, I called it burl poaching at the time, but Burl Bandits has a much better ring to it.blooming heck that's incredible TallTom
Your welcome, I recently saw a program involving burl hunters, after hearing what some went for I though there must be some black market stuff, I called it burl poaching at the time, but Burl Bandits has a much better ring to it.
Here's the other side, just because.
With a little research I have discovered it's a lemon tree, and over a century old, probably brought over from brazil.
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From reading the wiki link i see the tree is the species ''Ombu'' Phytolacca Dioica. It's amazing how nature creates things to cope with particular environments, apparently the large base is normal for the species to allow for high water storage which makes therm resilient to fires and drought in it's natural habitat, apparently it is the only tree-like plant that lives on the Pampas where it is often known as ''Lighthouses'' because it provides shade. The leaves can be used for a hot drink. Thankyou for posting Talltom, most interesting. here is another link with more information on the tree, ATB [SIZE=+4][SIZE=+1]| |
This one I found during a hike a couple of weeks ago here in the Czech Republic:
(is it Beech ?) --- knowing nothing about the Czech Republic I did a bit of a google and accidentally discovered your blog Dabberty about the trip where that burl was found, I also watched the vid about the trip. What a fantastic trip you had, those ancient ruins are really amazing, what is its past history. I guess the gun fortifications are from WW2 ?. Perhaps that deer losing blood had been shot and injured, if so the shot was well off target if it hit the back leg (rifle shot ? or something else, dont know hunting laws there). Nice to see that big burl on the vid at 4:28 and also the second burl too at 7:30. The Czech Republic looks fantastic. Thankyou very much for posting, I thoroughly enjoyed both blog and vid. ATB 
