old trees

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Yew Taxus baccata sprig from tree showing red berries

Olive Olea europea sprig with leaves fruit and detail of one half olive

Old Olive Olea europaea tree showing typical gnarled growth

Yew Taxus baccata sprig and detail of lone berry

Oak bark Quercus robur study

Oak polypore fungus piptoporus quercinus bracket fungus growing on the side of an oak tree

Oak Quercus robur pen and ink tree shape without leaves

Landscape showing an ancient oak woodland with oak trees which were last pollarded years ago, the under storey is carpeted with bluebells, the trees are hung with lichen, and there are moths in the foreground settled on a patch of wild spring flowers

Old oak woodland with bullfinch, woodpecker, badger, orange tip butterfly, vole, and ground beetle in amongst the plants growing on the forest floor below the spreading oaks