Aesculus - Chestnut

Chestnut Brockwell Park

Chestnut Buds

• Bark: Smooth gray  becoming shallow fissured squarish blocks
• Buds: shiny, sharp pointed with sticky gum
• Fruit: Nuts husk covered with bristles
• Leaves: Opposite, Palmate

Branch Attachment And Decay

A couple of pictures taken of various bits of trunk with various types of features.

I like the branch attachment log the best, the grain of both are clearly seen thanks to it splitting so evenly.

Walled off Decay

Log To Be Split

Black Mulberry Streatham Common

Black Mulberry Streatham Common Cement to top right of ivy

Came across this old gnarly Black Mulberry.  Definitely been abused and neglected over the years, as with a lot of old trees it looks like an old cavity was filled with cement ???? don't really understand the idea behind that practice but thankfully its not something done today.

Loved the old stems and the way years ago how they had almost tore right off the main stem but because the attachment was very low on the main stem the lower lateral branches supported the stem and the cambium stayed attached too.

Despite all its problems pretty much all the limbs were alive and had buds ready to open.

Chestnut Tree Brockwell Park

Chestnut Tree Brockwell Park

A few pictures of a Chestnut tree Brockwell Park from a distance this tree seems fine but as you get closer its easy to see the tree has a few problems.  Fungal brackets - ganoderma and nematodes or something, check the video out, if I ever get it uploaded.

If anyone has an opinion on whether the worms are nematodes or not let me know.

Judas Tree, Brockwell Park

Love this tree and I've caught it just before it comes into leaf fully.  Will add more pictures through the summer.

Judas Tree Brockwell Park

Judas Tree Brockwell Park

Fagus - Beech

Fagus sylvatica -European Beech, Common Beech

Fagus sylvatica - Beech Tree Ruskin Park

A specimen tree that readily grows on a huge dome of smooth limbs.  Dense foliage shades out the competition and protects thinly clad bark from the sun.

• Bark: Smooth gray 
• Buds: shiny, sharp pointed
• Fruit: Nuts husk covered with bristles
• Leaves: to 4" Alternate, entire or obscurely toothed

Rosendale Road, Chestnut tree

Tree had fallen early morning.  No indication  of problems can be seen in canopy of tree.  Cavity on trunk has years of callous wood, after cutting trunk above and below cavity it was easy to see the cavity is the start point for the soft soggy wood.  The wood above the cavity was solid although the tree had walled off the decay.

click Read More below to see the soggy wood.

Callous wood

Both sides.  The outside of a hole or old pruning scar, the inside showing what is normally not seen

Callous wood - Inside View

Goodman Crescent, Lambeth

Oak tree growing out of the main trunk of a London Plane

Oak Tree Growing Out Of Trunk Of Plane Tree

Oak Tree Growing Out Of Trunk Of Plane Tree

Mervan Rd, Hazel tree

No real indication why this stem split.  Wind assisted,
Stem removal
Thin the tree a bit to assist wind penetration

Split Stem Of Hazel Tree

Holmewood Gardens, Sorbus Tree

Growing on a lean and rubbing on the perimeter fence.  This tree will have to be removed before the trunk snaps at the rubbing location.  Canopy will probably grow to a size that wind throw will result in failure of the trunk at that point.

Sorbus Rubbing On Fence

Beech Tree Ruskin Park London

A few pictures of a great Beech tree in Ruskin Park.
Not in leaf yet but I will come back later in the summer and take more pictures.
The tree and location can be seen via Panoramio