Thursday, November 10, 2011

Trees of the UK

During my first trip to the United Kingdom I found some interesting trees.

A tree at the University of Edinburgh. It was called the Monkey Puzzle tree.
Araucaria araucana (popularly called the Monkey-puzzle Tree or Monkey Tail Tree) is an evergreen tree growing to 40 metres (130 ft) tall with a 2 metres (7 ft) trunk diameter (from Wikipedia)


A tree at Alnwick Castle in England. A tree was planted in this spot over 400 years ago specifically at the request of the Duke of North Umberland by his landscape artist.

This tree is a decedant of the apple tree which dropped an apple on the head of  Isaac Newton. Located in Cambridge England.

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