Monster Rhus typhina

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• Loxley Posts: 5,698

  March 2022

  Do you mean the picture hasn't loaded? 

  "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  March 2022

  No pic

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• Loxley Posts: 5,698

  March 2022

  
  

  "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 

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• Dave Humby Posts: 1,145

  March 2022

  Heaven forbid it doesn't die, or have a branch break or get pruned....

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• Loxley Posts: 5,698

  March 2022

  Dave Humby said:

  Heaven forbid it doesn't die, or have a branch break or get pruned....

  It's already making a large patch of suckers encroaching on the park, you can just about see them in front of the fence.

  "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 

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• philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742

  March 2022

  If your estimate of 21 ft is correct then yes I have seen Sumach reach a similar size.  Not in a garden but planted as a central "divider" along a dual carriageway in SW France.
  As most of us unlucky enough to have had them in a garden, the slightest damage or attempts to prune result in myriad suckers in all directions.
  Beautiful trees but only in the right place

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  March 2022 edited March 2022

  Book....Champion trees of Britain and Ireland. Published 2011.
  Have Rhus typhina  listed at 6, Mayfields. Shefford.Bedfordshire as the champion.
  Maybe long gone?
  
  https://www.google.com/maps/place/6+Mayfields,+Shefford+SG17+5AU/@52.0391456,-0.3298551,53m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x4877cb23d716df5d:0x5bdcaf7cc63f0750!8m2!3d52.0390727!4d-0.3295459
  

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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