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A celebration is to be held for a dying ancient tree in a Highland village. Beauly's wych elm is thought to be the oldest of its species in Europe at almost 800 years old. References to the ...

The ghost of trees past. 800-year-old wych elm, laid low by a tiny bark beetle ...

Four teenage boys were trespassing on an aristocrat’s property when they found a human skull hidden in a tree. Eighty years on, the mystery of why she was put in a wych elm continues to haunt ...

Wych, the elm of the north and Scotland, can set seed, and perhaps because of this the disease has spread more slowly there. But spread it has, reaching Inverness in 2006.

Dutch Elm Disease - a fungus transported from tree to tree by elm bark-beetles - devastated the region's mature wych elm trees when a particularly virulent strain spread throughout the UK.

It was in the middle of the afternoon of Sunday, April 18 in 1943 when the large Wych Elm tree caught their eye. Robert attempted to climb the bark when he spotted a large hole in the hollow of ...

View 2 Works: Wych Elm; Bark of the Wych Elm By Myles Birket Foster; Watercolours over pencil; 14 x 13cm. and 4 x 6.8cm. (5 1/2 x 5 in. and 1 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.); Signed; . Access more artwork lots and ...

This elm thought to be the oldest in Europe has fallen prey to the fungal Dutch elm disease, which has withered many elms across the continent. A tiny bark beetle, which breeds in the bark of ...

A celebration is to be held for what is believed to be Europe's oldest wych elm The tree at the ruins of Beauly Priory in Beauly is almost 800 years old But is has Dutch Elm Disease and ...