Bowthorpe Oak is One of the OLDEST OAK TREEs alive
The Bowthorpe oak near Manthorpe is more than 1000 years old!!!
Warren Hill. Newmarket H.W. 13 of 13 Age of Oak Trees
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After I’d dowsed the ages to be 364, 222 and 42 I looked up the life span of oak trees and found that they are only considered
to be getting old at 1,000 years.
I found it to be most interesting that I dowsed the oak sapling
(4 years old) to be 42 years old.
The person being remembered only lived 42 years but why I should pick up on that is puzzling. Dowsing is both an art and a science and a difference of one word that could be used interchangeably
in a sentence can make a significant difference to the outcome.
However my language and intent and focus concerned specific oak trees. Sometimes the ‘people’ who help me teach lessons.
I’ve backward dowsed that there was not stress or grief in that area but there is love. Maybe that is the important message to me
or to whoever reads this note.
While some of the oaks look a little ropy and some are dead trunks, none of the trunks are impressively wide. Therefore the soil or prevailing conditions are not conducive to longevity.
Bowthorpe Oak in Manthorpe near Bourne, Lincolnshire, England
is perhaps England's oldest oak tree with an estimated age of over 1,000 years. The tree has a girth of 12.30 metres
(40 feet 4 inches) – and astounding longevity.
Visitors welcome throughout the year.
At least 60 of the oaks in Blenheim’s High Park have been dated back to the Middle Ages. And experts from the Ancient Tree Forum have estimated the age of one of them at 1,046 years old — probably the oldest oak in Britain.
The latest measurement, made four weeks ago, means the oak started growing in AD970, a century before the Norman Conquest. It was more than 500 years old at the Battle of Bosworth
and 700 years old when the first Duke of Marlborough began to build Blenheim in 1705.
Tallest Oak Tree in Buckinghamshire?
This is definitely the tallest tree in Fennels Wood in Flackwell Heath! Maybe Buckinghamshire! The camera doesn't actually do it much justice.
19th feb 2014 - 4.10PM
Oldest and Tallest trees in The World
Some of the world’s oldest trees are tucked away on untouched mountainsides, isolated lands, and private islands. And for 14 years, photographer Beth Moon traversed these farflung places to capture photographs of ancient trees before they died or got cut down by man.
Each trip took careful planning, according to Moon. Some trees’ foliage looked best during the rainy seasons while others in the winter. Places like the Yemeni island of Socotra had strong monsoon winds for months, giving her just a narrow window of time to shoot the dragon blood tree. And that’s not to mention the work involved in figuring out the right hour and ideal light conditions to do a tree’s portrait justice.
Choosing trees for their unique size, age, folklore, or simply their mysterious beauty, Moon captured and compiled images of trees from across Asia, North America, Africa, and Europe into a book, Ancient Trees, Portrait of Time. She also tried to capture the natural and cultural history of the ancient trees, which can range from a few hundred to afew thousand years old. (Curiously, “ancient” doesn’t just describe a tree that’s extremely old for its species but, according to UK conservation charity, National Trust, signifies a category of historically important trees that “have amazing character and beauty and [are] incredibly rich in wildlife.”)
Take a look at some of the awe-inspiring trees Moon features.
Yews of Wakehurst taken in Ardingly, West Sussex, England in 1999: Its tentacle-like roots ride over the cliff’s edge to find soil to sink into and its drooping branches filter out daylight, according to Moon, giving the woods an eerie ambience.(Beth Moon/Abbeville Press)
Rilke’s Bayon taken in Ta Prohm, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia in 2007: Of the species Tetrameles nudiflora, it can reach a height of 150 ft (46 m) and is found in the Indo-Malayan region, according to the US Department of Agriculture.(Beth Moon/Abbeville Press)
The Bowthrope Oak taken in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England in 2002: With a circumference of 40 feet (12 m), it’s one of the largest-girthed living oaks in Britain and one of the oldest living oak trees at about 1,200 years.(Beth Moon/Abbeville Press)
Avenue of the Baobabs taken in Morondava, Madagascar in 2006: Only found in Madagascar, these trees rise to nearly 100 ft (30 m) and are about 800 years old. They’re also a great source of food, fiber, dye, rope, and fuel and appropriately known as renala, meaning “mother of the forest” in Malagasy.(Beth Moon/Abbeville Press)
The Sentinels of St. Edwards taken in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, England in 2005: Two yews frame the door of a church, which is said to be the inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkein’s Doors of Moria in The Lord of the Rings.(Beth Moon/Abbeville Press)
The Baobabs of Kubu Island 3 taken in Makgadikgadi Pans, Botswana in 2013: Able to grow with very little water, they give the surrounding space an eerie and surreal feel, according to Moon who describes the baobabs as more like creatures than trees.(Beth Moon/Abbeville Press)
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An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (; Latin oak tree) of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 600 extant species of oaks. The common name oak also appears in the names of species in related genera, notably Lithocarpus (stone oaks), as well as in those of unrelated species such as Grevillea robusta (silky oaks) and the Casuarinaceae (she-oaks). The genus Quercus is native to the Northern Hemisphere, and includes deciduous and evergreen species extending from cool temperate to tropical latitudes in the Americas, Asia, Europe, and North Africa. North America contains the largest number of oak species, with approximately 90 occurring in the United States, while Mexico has 160 species of which 109 are endemic. The second greatest center of oak diversity is China, which contains approximately 100 species.
Oaks have spirally arranged leaves, with lobate margins in many species; some have serrated leaves or entire leaves with smooth margins. Many deciduous species are marcescent, not dropping dead leaves until spring. In spring, a single oak tree produces both male flowers (in the form of catkins) and small female flowers. The fruit is a nut called an acorn or oak nut borne in a cup-like structure known as a cupule; each acorn contains one seed (rarely two or three) and takes 6–18 months to mature, depending on their species. The acorns and leaves contain tannic acid, which helps to guard from fungi and insects. The live oaks are distinguished for being evergreen, but are not actually a distinct group and instead are dispersed across the genus.
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00:01:39 1 Classification
00:01:57 1.1 Genus iQuercus/i
00:03:47 1.2 Genus iCyclobalanopsis/i
00:04:48 2 Hybridization
00:07:08 3 Uses
00:11:25 4 Biodiversity and ecology
00:14:14 5 Genetics
00:14:52 6 Diseases and pests
00:16:36 7 Toxicity
00:17:23 8 Cultural significance
00:17:32 8.1 National symbol
00:18:31 8.1.1 Oaks as regional and state symbols
00:20:54 8.1.2 Political use
00:21:25 8.2 Religious
00:23:37 8.3 Historical
00:24:53 8.4 Famous oak trees
00:27:31 9 Historical note on Linnaean species
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An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (; Latin oak tree) of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 600 extant species of oaks. The common name oak also appears in the names of species in related genera, notably Lithocarpus (stone oaks), as well as in those of unrelated species such as Grevillea robusta (silky oaks) and the Casuarinaceae (she-oaks). The genus Quercus is native to the Northern Hemisphere, and includes deciduous and evergreen species extending from cool temperate to tropical latitudes in the Americas, Asia, Europe, and North Africa. North America contains the largest number of oak species, with approximately 90 occurring in the United States, while Mexico has 160 species of which 109 are endemic. The second greatest center of oak diversity is China, which contains approximately 100 species.
Oaks have spirally arranged leaves, with lobate margins in many species; some have serrated leaves or entire leaves with smooth margins. Many deciduous species are marcescent, not dropping dead leaves until spring. In spring, a single oak tree produces both male flowers (in the form of catkins) and small female flowers. The fruit is a nut called an acorn or oak nut borne in a cup-like structure known as a cupule; each acorn contains one seed (rarely two or three) and takes 6–18 months to mature, depending on their species. The acorns and leaves contain tannic acid, which helps to guard from fungi and insects. The live oaks are distinguished for being evergreen, but are not actually a distinct group and instead are dispersed across the genus.