I belong to another group,
actually two groups, for people interested in and photographing
churches. Here is a link to a picture of a church with a very
large Wellingtonia next to it. He told me it was about 20 feet
from the church.
After a Google search I found that Wellingtonia is actually
Sequoiadendron giganteum!
http://churchcrawler.blogspot.com/2008/01/hamming-it-up-in-somerset-part-4.html
The picture if clicked on will go to the same pic on flickr.
If you click on All Sizes a slightly larger version is available
there.
The site belongs to the founder of the two church-related
groups. The link above and the sentence below it are from an
email from him.
I thought you guys would love to see this tree. I was excited to
see it.
Barry
Quite a nice tree but for the
UK also rather normal in size. Here is another
from the UK, at least 45 m tall with cbh of 10,21 meter. It was
measured by
Richard Goodrick, who is with the British tree register group and
can be
found in Plas Dolmelynllyn Country Hotel, Ganllwyd, Dolgellau,
Snowdonia,
Gwynedd, Wales. He estimates it having a woodvolume of at least 105
cubic
meters, wich is over 3700 cubic feet.
Jeroen
Jeroen,
Gorgeous tree! However, the volume appears to be overstated. Do
you know how
the figure was calculated?
Will F. Blozan
President, Eastern Native Tree Society
President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc.
Will,
He has probably not used a real model to measure the volume. He
made a
comparison with some Giant Sequia wich Tim Bekaert (the Belgian with
a
Sequiadendron website who wrote you about his visit to some Live
Oaks
in Louisiana) has measured. In 2007 he had made a simple program to
measure
volume of trees with a simple trunk form. He used it for some Giant
sequia's
in Belgium and some in the UK we visited in April 2007. See:
http://users.telenet.be/sequoiadendron/volume.html (in Dutch /
Flemish). The
English part of his website is smaller:
http://users.telenet.be/sequoiadendron/en/index.html.
Now he is busy with a 3 dimensional model wich could be used for
more
complex trees. This because this British man Richard Goodrick asked
us about
the volume of a huge Cedrus libani in Brightwell Park, England. Here
are
some photos. Tim estimates the total volume of this tree as about
120 cubic
metre, based on the photos and some information about the height and
CBH
from Richard. You can mail him about his models at: tim.beka...@telenet.be
.
By the way: why didn't ENTS counted the tree-rings of the
branches of the
Middleton Oak? It seemed a very good possibility. From one of the
largest
open grown oaks of the Netherlands in August a very large branch
broke off
at 4 metre height (cbh 6,95 metre, height 22,5 m, greatest crown
width 39
metre). It had 211 rings 2,5 metre from the trunk, so the oak is
probably
not older than 230 - 240 years. Most people thought it was 300 to
400 years.
Jeroen Philippona
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