From a friend’s photo,
At Astbury just off the A34 near Stoke on Trent and Congelton. I can’t remember the church grounds it is in. The trunk is hollow. It goes to show that it is only the outer layers of plants that are really alive. Water and nutrients are drawn up the trunk by transpiration. The trunk is propped up with timbers.
I once saw an experiment on the TV when scientists cut through a mature tree, they placed the trunk into a container full of water. The tree continued to suck up the water despite being cut, this was because of capillary action. There are tiny tubes in plants called phloem and xylem which are there to take up water and also transport sugars and starches from the leaves into the body of the plant. These are the building blocks of the grass, shrub, flowering plant or tree. I don’t know much more about plant biology though. I’m searching round in my mind for facts from biology classes over forty years ago!
Mallaband-Brown 
The tree is beautiful, looks like art. And the description is interesting. I love plants but dont know anything. Nothing more than photosynthesis lol
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I’m no expert. We have lots of yew trees growing in church yards. It’s thought they were originally planted for hedging to keep cattle out of places and when they are this old before churches even existed.
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i looked up old yew trees and yea they look really old. i heard some trees are like hundreds of years old, and we just chop them in a moment..
oh i found a 4700 years old..
“bristlecone pine tree
The Oldest Tree in the World
It’s not always easy to date a living tree, but most experts agree that a bristlecone pine tree (Pinus longaeva) in California’s White Mountain range nicknamed Methuselah, is over 4,700 years old.”
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That’s amazing! Giant redwoods get quite old too I think?
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Omg they r majestic!
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