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Medusa / The Fairy Tree
Newark and Sherwood, Notts
Recorded by: Helen Leaf
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Trees of National Special Interest (TNSI)
- Species:
- Pedunculate oakQuercus robur
- Form:
- Coppice (high stump)
- Standing or fallen:
- Standing
- Living status:
- Alive
- Girth:
- 9.81m at a height of 0.10m History
- Veteran status:
- Ancient tree
- County:
- Notts
- Country:
- England
- Grid reference:
- SK6212268407
- Public accessibility:
- Public - open access (e.g. public park)
- Surroundings:
- Bridlepath / footpath, Woodland, Nature Reserve, Ancient woodland
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Medusa / The Fairy Tree
Newark and Sherwood, Notts
Recorded by: Helen Leaf
- Species:
- Pedunculate oak
- Form:
- Coppice (high stump)
- Standing or fallen:
- Standing
- Living status:
- Alive
- Girth:
- 9.81m at a height of 0.10m History
- Condition:
- --
- Veteran status:
- Ancient tree
- Tree number:
- 188807
- Local or historic name:
- Medusa / The Fairy Tree
- County:
- Notts
- Country:
- England
- Grid reference:
- SK6212268407
- Public accessibility:
- Public - open access (e.g. public park)
- Surroundings:
- Bridlepath / footpath, Woodland, Nature Reserve, Ancient woodland
- Ancient tree site:
- Sherwood Forest Country Park
- Woodland Trust wood:
- No
- Epiphytes:
- Lichen, Moss
- Fungi:
- --
- Invertebrates:
- Yes
- Bats:
- --
- Recorded by:
- Helen Leaf
- Recording organisation:
- --
- Recorded on:
- 06/07/2019
This oak is a stump, once sawn off, which retained bark and cambium on one side, from which new stems arose as from a large coppice stool. How to measure its girth? If we did it at the base, why not there with all trees? At. 1.30 m at the sawn level does not seem correct either; the bole was burred before it lost its bark. Perhaps somewhere in-between these extremes would give a less biased girth (but I did not do it when I visited). Aljos Farjon