multiple tree
Isn't this amazing? [This view from between the three offshoot trees.]
It's an ancient horse chestnut tree in Headington Hill Park, Oxford, with unique growth. Top middle is the trunk of the original tree but its top has now gone. Three lower branches (forked in the foreground, a single one top left) dipped down to the ground and a mature tree has formed at the end of each. You can see in the bottom right hand corner where the branch has rooted in the ground. The new tree starts there.
The helpful website Daily Info tells me that "at some point in the distant past it appears to have been struck by lightning. Not to be beaten, it re-rooted three branches which are now tall and sturdy trees in their own right, all still plugged in to the motherlode, as it were." here
multiple tree
Isn't this amazing? [This view from between the three offshoot trees.]
It's an ancient horse chestnut tree in Headington Hill Park, Oxford, with unique growth. Top middle is the trunk of the original tree but its top has now gone. Three lower branches (forked in the foreground, a single one top left) dipped down to the ground and a mature tree has formed at the end of each. You can see in the bottom right hand corner where the branch has rooted in the ground. The new tree starts there.
The helpful website Daily Info tells me that "at some point in the distant past it appears to have been struck by lightning. Not to be beaten, it re-rooted three branches which are now tall and sturdy trees in their own right, all still plugged in to the motherlode, as it were." here