How old are yew?

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Mr Hamhead M
Mr Hamhead Sep 14, 2005 08:34:48
Replying to PeterH

What about copicing? I know the Yew is not a tree we would associate with this but if it had been cut back at an earlier age would it not now by wider than if it had been left togrow natural? or am I talking rubbish!

Mr H

N nigelswift
nigelswift Sep 14, 2005 09:11:13
Replying to Mr Hamhead

if it had been cut back at an earlier age would it not now by wider than if it had been left togrow natural?

I don't know, but I suppose coppicing would only be possible when it was young, and since the slowest growth is in old age any alteration to size would be have only a marginal influence on it's apparent age.