Trees and Plants
The woodland is Beech, Oak, Ash, and the Small-leaved Lime and Large-leaved Lime. There are Birches, Field Maple, Aspen, Yew, Holly, Whitebeam, Alder and other varieties. The understorey is dominated by Hazel and also includes Dogwood, Hawthorn and similar for the area.
The ground flora includes Dog's Mercury and Bramble and species recorded include Wild Madder, Toothwort, Lily-of-the-valley, Herb Paris, and Bird's-nest Orchid.
Read more about this topic: Lady Park Wood National Nature Reserve
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“The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stopping short at a uniform height, four or five feet from the ground, like eaves, as if they had been trimmed by art, so that you could look under and through the whole grove with its leafy canopy, as under a tent whose curtain is raised.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.”
—A.J. (Arnold Joseph)