New life has sprung from the rescued seeds and twigs of the Sycamore Gap tree mysteriously cut down last year, giving hope that the iconic tree has a future. BBC News saw the new shoots on a rare ...
Luckily, there's hope for the tree, as experts are growing seedlings from its twigs and seeds. For around 300 years, the huge Sycamore Gap tree stood along Hadrian's wall, in the north of England.
Sycamore anthracnose is the most dire of sycamore diseases. Repeated cases will inevitably debilitate the tree, causing the leaves to turn brown and fall before their time. The fungus also kills twigs ...