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Downy birch
Killerton, Devon
Recorded by: Jon Burgess
- Species:
- Downy birchBetula pubescens
- Form:
- Maiden
- Standing or fallen:
- Standing
- Living status:
- Alive
- Girth:
- 3.61m at a height of 0.90m History
- Veteran status:
- Veteran tree
- County:
- Devon
- Country:
- England
- Grid reference:
- SS97290053
- Public accessibility:
- Public - open access (e.g. public park)
- Surroundings:
- Parkland
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Downy birch
Killerton, Devon
Recorded by: Jon Burgess
- Species:
- Downy birch
- Form:
- Maiden
- Standing or fallen:
- Standing
- Living status:
- Alive
- Girth:
- 3.61m at a height of 0.90m History
- Condition:
- Holes or water pockets
- Veteran status:
- Veteran tree
- Tree number:
- 113996
- Local or historic name:
- --
- Tag number:
- County:
- Devon
- Country:
- England
- Grid reference:
- SS97290053
- Public accessibility:
- Public - open access (e.g. public park)
- Surroundings:
- Parkland
- Ancient tree site:
- Killerton Park
- Woodland Trust wood:
- No
- Epiphytes:
- --
- Fungi:
- --
- Invertebrates:
- --
- Bats:
- --
- Recorded by:
- Jon Burgess
- Recording organisation:
- --
- Last visited:
- 03/05/2026
- First recorded:
- 18/08/2009
A poem for the day we found this tree: We climbed to the top of the tree You shimmied up quicker than me, So it was you who was first to see In a hole, in a branch, the nest of a bee, And so we decided, with haste to flee Down from the top of that old tree.