There are quite a few of these trees in the wood. There is one thing I am unsure of though. Their lower branches are all knocked off, the foliage being left high up on the bole. Has this been done on purpose to encourage rapid top growth, and therefore nice long planks, or is it animals? An educated guess would be it is more likely that the canopy is heavy and lets little light through, starving the branches and making them weak and redundant.
The long cylindrical cones of this tree lie about at all times of year, sometimes nibbled like corn on the cob by the squirrel massive. I do not exaggerate - we are over-run and they are FAT!
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