Chestnut coppice
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Chestnut coppice by Penny Mayes as part of the Geograph project.
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Chestnut coppice
Image: © Penny Mayes Taken: 7 Nov 2005
A puzzle - the wood was cut some time in the last year, the trimmings burnt, the wood cut to length and stacked but apparently never collected for processing into fencing; maybe this is the rejected wood or maybe there is a recession in the fencing trade. The show of foxgloves next spring should be good, judging by the huge number of seedlings. This is a sweet chestnut plantation, Castanea sativa, grown for fencing. Not to be confused with the conker tree or horse chestnut, Aesculus hippocastanum.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.223484
Longitude
0.657985