multiple tree
An original branch dips down to the ground.
It's an ancient horse chestnut tree in Headington Hill Park, Oxford, with unique growth. This is the main trunk of the original tree but its top has now gone. Three lower branches dipped down to the ground and a mature tree has formed at the end of each (this one is forked and formed two trees).
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
An original branch dips down to the ground.
It's an ancient horse chestnut tree in Headington Hill Park, Oxford, with unique growth. This is the main trunk of the original tree but its top has now gone. Three lower branches dipped down to the ground and a mature tree has formed at the end of each (this one is forked and formed two trees).
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