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so there's this aspen forest in utah, supposed to be the biggest living organic thing.(43hectares)
difficult to grasp mass, but anyway must be amazing.......growing all from an original tree
in my garden there is a huge tree, who knows how old, but it takes five people to encircle.
a tulip tree. our biggest rambling rose smells of a heady vanilla. apart from that the fastest growing plant i've ever seen is bamboo. have planted a gunnera beside some water, they
can get enormous.
any one else do big or seen big

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Where i work in Brighton, we have some of the best and oldest English Elms in the country. The park is surrounded by cornish Elms which are huge....certanly 100'+



But the English Elms are set as specimens. There are two which have massive hollow trunks which you can climb in,

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dear andy, fab photos, especialy the first one. do love a sunrise. we've got just over 4acres of forest, and at dawn the birdsong is
so noisy and loud it can easily wake you up when we camp out in the summer. didn't know there are cornish elms. i knew there was
dutch elm disease, recently i heard there have been problems with magnolias, some sort of disease, know anything ?
i tnink one of the oldest things i've ever seen, although dead, was a fossilized tree trunk in a glasgow park, left over from when
scotland was a rain forest,it had enormous girth, charcoal black and as hard as a diamond. we've got some enormous swamp cypress here, loose there
needles in winter, amazing colour.

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dunno where this rates on the bigometer, but there's a group of four ancient sweet chestnuts not far from here... they're all pretty big and the best looking is this one:



but the biggest is one that's started it's final stage (I guess when you're 400 or so, the decline is 50 to 100 years) by sending 'arisings' from the base. You can't see much here:



but this is from closer:



I measured it tonight - 47 feet (14metres) around the whole 'plant'.
That's a big chestnut. A venerable chestnut.

OM.

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bloody big chestnut, we've got a few chestnuts here, including a spanish chestnut, pink flowers, gorgeous.
when i think big i think kew gardens, giant ancient specimen trees, and the giant lillies which are big enough to put a child on
there must be local public gardens which have amazing big things.
beside biarritz, near uz, there are algerian palms that napoleon brought back form his excursions, huge girth, much bigger thah he ever got, and there're still there. smallest things have been wild orchids, difficult to find to begin with then they're everywhere!!!!