September 10, 2007
This is the tree-mendous phenomenon uncovered when a 200-year-old horse chestnut tree.
Tree surgeons were stunned when they found the image of a tiny tree imprinted in the branch.
Experts say the bizarre shape has occurred because the heart wood is riddled with rot, which is why it has been cut down.
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The mark of a diseased tree took the tree surgeons by surprise
Just like a stick of rock, the image of the brown tree can be found imprinted throughout the branch and trunk of the chestnut.
Pauline Buchanan-Brown, director general of the Tree Council, said: "This is extremely quirky and amusing. What a coincidence.
The conker tree, on council-owned ground in Holdenhurst, near Bournemouth, Dorset, was removed because of the health and safety risk it posed.
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Pauline Buchanan-Brown says the image of the tree is a sign of the disease