Mine is the black poplar. This is because it is a very tall yet elegant looking beast with the most beautiful fragrance you could imagine - truly the smell of its sap is quite something. Furthermore it is one of the UK's rarest native trees and is set for extinction in its 'wild' form by way of its complex (for trees) reproductive tendencies. I find this quite sad and feel more love for it as a result.
What's yours and why?
Silver birch or japanese maple
I like the peely bark and the leaf colour respectively.
^^
me too
How about London Plane for the former...?
also a good shout
i shouldnt dis any tree really
but the london plain is not a favourate of mine, sure its great at withstanding polution and its patchwork bark can look interesting, but otherwise I dont find it so.
I know which one you mean
They are all really cool (mostly)
Birch (called a weed but so useful, beautiful and a pioneer)
Hawthorn (so beautiful they make my heart melt in blossom, and the smell makes you wanna..... really really useful and benificent)
Yew (age, majesty, saturnine, great to climb and rest langourously in, useful (to those who know) Doesnt let other stuff grow under it.....and once again age, particular ones were important to our ancestors and they make me dance with them)
those three trees are like totem trees to me. beth - uath - idho
...yeah...
have you been eating hawthorn...?
Yew's a good shout though, with it's anti-devil properties an' all.
of course Ive been eating hawthorn
since I was very young, haws and the leaves.
Yew has anti devil properties? what nonsense is this? What do you mean?
The first churches were originally sited to be next to ancient yews, as this helped confer the sacredness of the yew onto the developing christian religeon in saxon times. Then a tradition of planting yews in churchyards came about.
christianity
has falsly attributed it with anti devil properties, over the years due to their physical proximity
i love all trees equally
I like oak
they're the ultimate 'tree' shape, if that makes sense.
duir
I quite like weeping willows
They remind me of the plates you get at Chinese restaurants.
Monkey puzzle FTW though. In fact, all pine trees are ace.
my ex
thought that monkey puzzle trees were fictional, and made up by Super Furry Animals!
lolz
They might not be the ones I'm thinking of actually
What are the coniferous ones that have flat wide branches?
this is a monkey puzzle
http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/3116288/2/istockphoto_3116288_monkey_puzzle_tree.jpg
Hmm
I'm thinking of something else then. I wish I knew what it was called, then I could look it up. Typing "pine tree" into google images isn't going to do it I don't think.
Cedar of Lebanon?
http://www.conifergarden.co.uk/Web_trees/Cedar_of_Lebanon.JPG
saille
Prunus serrulata.
they're rad.
Charles II's family tree
http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/2504776
impromptu fact-o-rama
Pubs called the Royal Oak are named after the tree that Charles II hid in when escaping from Parliamentarian forces.
Having clicked on your link, I have two things to say:
1) different Charles II, soz
2) that's some fucked-up incestuous shit right there.
Strychnine Tree / Nux Vomica
^
Never misses a chance at a Veils reference, that one.
I'm both happy and sad
someone got that reference.
Lava tree
one of our least known native tree is the 'spindle tree'
......it is smallish and you can make spindles out of it.
rowan tree
you get lots of them in the highlands and they're really pretty, especially in the autumn.
http://noblesseoblige.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/autumnrowan320f.jpg
luis
rowan i
sometimes called mountain ash
sometimes quickbeam
its a fairie tree in Eire.
We've made jelly from it but its just too bitter