During a recent view of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in the Queen ’s garden at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh , Scotland , botanists were floor to let out the bearing of two elms thought to be nonextant for nearly a half one C .
The two tree belong to to a metal money known as the Wentworth elm , and scientist thought it had gone nonextant last century on account of theDutch elm tree diseaseepidemic .
Turns out they were wrong — but what a strange position for the last two remnant of this lofty breed to be located . It ’s not as if these things are tiny saplings , or trees tucked by out of stack . They ’re absolutely huge and are among the most photographed tree diagram on the palace grounds .
“ Such a uncovering when the tree diagram in head are just shy of 100 feet and in bare wad does sound rather odd , ” admitted Max Max Coleman of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh ( RBGE ) in a release . Coleman identified the specimen after they were flagged as being strange during a recent tree survey . The trees have a crying - similar visual aspect , and feature large glistening leaves .
utter to theBBC , Coleman muse that the oversight could be blamed on the fact that these trees were never common in the first space . “ If you deplumate your tree Word off the shelf to sample and look them up , you wo n’t find Wentworth elm tree listed in the book , ” he said . Coleman also believes that few people these days are able to identify sub - species of elms because of how rare they are . He says that somewhere between 25 to 75 million elm across the UK were drop off in the 1970s on account of Dutch Elm Disease .
Coleman attributes the survival of the fittest of these two Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree to a conservation cause invoked nearly 40 years ago .
“ It is very likely the only reason these rare elmwood have survived is because Edinburgh City Council has been survey and hit diseased elms since the 1980s , ” he allege . “ Without that employment many more of the K of elm tree in Edinburgh would have been lost . The success of this program may be part demonstrated in the means two rarefied tree diagram have been preserved . ”
The queen ’s botanist are now trying to figure out where these elms come from , but a preliminary investigation suggests they were introduced by the RBGE during the late 19th century . More importantly , they ’re also looking into ways to preserve and propagate these last two stay on specimens .
[ RBGE , BBC ]
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