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Saturday, November 22, 2014

The embrace of the Sycamore..

On a visit to Cotswolds England, we were amazed by giant trees in the grounds of the cottages we stayed in.. Sycamores.. they were said to grow to be hundreds of years old.. Taller than the eye could see the top of, and almost as wide, they were an oasis of light green waving in the wind.. The video below will give you an idea..


I looked up Youtube to see other videos on the sycamore tree and found that over 11 pages of youtube search results, there were more videos on cutting sycamore trees than on them !

One stand-out video however, was this giant sycamore in woodland whose base had a hollow large enough for the video author to get into ! See here at Hollow Sycamore Tree on Fall Nature Walk - ThirdChoiceVideos HD - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jIqV3DMs0c


Text information on the net was rich ofcourse.. I found the London Plane, The American Sycamore and the Chinar in India and Asia, to be related simmilar trees.. From wikipedia below..




And finally, this video.. brings tears to your eyes to think the giant sycamore we loved, started out as such a seedling..


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