Comment on Sycamore Gap tree destroyed in 'moronic mission', court told
tal@lemmy.today 5 days ago
destroyed
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycamore_Gap_tree
The stump has thrown up seedlings and is still alive, albeit severely coppiced, but is expected to take more than 150 years to recover.
May or may not wind up quite as photogenic, but with apologies to Mark Twain, the reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 days ago
The landmark is still destroyed. A stump isn’t the same. What made the tree special was because it was pretty.
tal@lemmy.today 5 days ago
Yeah, but I mean, it’s probably far from being the only pretty tree in the country.
It sounds like it became a thing due to being in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-66994729
It looks like there’s a new Robin Hood movie coming out (The Death of Robin Hood), and IMDB says that the filming is in the UK and Northern Ireland (well…should probably be Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but whatever). Maybe they can find themselves another nice tree in the UK for filming.
…maybe use an oak or yew or something even more long-lived and historically-accurate too, as the sycamore is an import…
www.mikepalmer.co.uk/…/greatbritain.htm
That first record of introduction is centuries after King Richard the Lionheart was running around; Robin Hood was supposed to be a contemporary figure.