The centuries-old Skipinnish Oak named after a Scottish ceilidh band has won this year’s Tree of the Year contest, the Woodland Trust has announced.
The oak, thought to be at least 400 years old and hidden away in a Sitka spruce plantation in Lochaber, in the Scottish Highlands, is a surviving remnant of the native ecosystem, playing host to rare lichens and other species, the Woodland Trust said.
