Thread: Cherry Trees
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Old 18-06-2005, 04:25 PM
Dave
 
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My friend has two very large cherry trees, a Bing and a Queen Anne.
He told me that he got the Queen Anne tree in the mail 4 years ago and
it now it must be 40 ft high.

He exaggerates a lot and I wonder if that is possible for a tree to
grow that fast. [...]



Seems rather impossible. Consider the current diameter of the trunks
against the widest growth rings you've ever seen in your area. I have
two cherry trees and they seem to grow at a typical rate.