Canons Park: Specimen tree
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Canons Park: Specimen tree by Nigel Cox as part of the Geograph project.
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Canons Park: Specimen tree
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 14 Nov 2018
This splendid tree, which is between the Image and Image, has been identified as a Swamp Cypress (Taxodium distichum) in its autumn guise - one of the few deciduous conifers, with apple-green young leaves in spring. The bark is light brown, dark orange in a few places, with vertical striations. The colour is unedited from the original camera exposure and fairly reflects what the tree looked like on the day. The tree is individually visible on satellite imagery with green summer foliage, and also visible over the wall in Image taken in December with less vegetation on it.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.613099
Longitude
-0.295603