I saw this seedling in a Bristol gutter today; I thought the National Trust might like to know about it…
I’m sure there is scope for selling fake Sycamore Gap seedlings. All they would need is a label with a logo on.
I can’t comment on its accuracy.
This has been predicted for many years, the challenge is actually measuring it then the vastly more difficult challenge of getting politicians to act properly about it.
Worth 35 minutes
Yes, though all old news. I recommend set the iPlayer speed at x1.2. The speech will be less lugubrious and you’ll save yourself 7 minutes, which is more than enough to write a comment in the iSpot Forum.
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20 character limit is a pest.
There was an item on the BBC lunchtime news about some sinkholes in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region of China, where they are discovering new species of animals (and, if I understood correctly, some that were thought to be extinct). One of them looked to me very like a clear-wing moth.
Oddly, I cannot find anything related to this on the BBC website but it must surely be there.
There is some background to the area at: Scientists find a forest growing inside a giant newly discovered sinkhole in China
The sycamore was on the Today programme again this morning, about 7.15. Apparently 49 lucky winners have been chosen to receive a seedling from the tree. I’m sure the woman said the seedlings are 6 ft tall. It was felled in autumn 2023. Did someone have the foresight to get seedlings going in previous years? In which case I think the police need to look into whether there was a conspiracy. I can’t believe seeds from last autumn have reached 6 ft in one season.
From the horse’s mouth.
If the tree was cut down in sept 2023 and seed gathered and germinated and had all of 2024 to grow in ideal greenhouse conditions then they might have got that big. Shame the photo on NT website is not quite high enough resolution to check the stem to see if there is hint of stop and start growth again. But they do have leaves all the way up the stem including ones with various diseases by the looks of things, perhaps they need to be on ispot.
I am thinking along the lines of them being planted immediately after collection under lights.
Forced in a greenhouse with 24 hrs light doesn’t sound ideal for trees that are going to be planted outdoors. Maybe they are all destined for the reception areas of National Trust’s corporate sponsors.
Good news from West of England
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