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By TOM FOOT
 

Workmen cut the tree down
Bean tree is now gone tree after 150 years

AN Indian bean tree that stood in the front quad of the University College London for 150 years was axed on Tuesday.
Scientists at the university have already earmarked chunks of the 40-foot tree for experiments and students have asked for twigs, leaves and branches to be saved as mementos.
The tree was felled after tree surgeons deemed it rotten to the core and a safety risk to students.
Tony Overbury, of UCL Estates and Facilities oversaw the felling of the tree. He said: “Two groups of scientists at UCL have already asked for slices of the trunk to run experiments on, but we don’t know yet whether the trunk is too rotten for their purposes. Other members of the UCL community have requested pieces of the tree to keep as mementos.”
Mr Overbury has ordered a 20-year-old “semi-mature” Indian bean tree to fill the spot where its predecessor stood. The replacement is due to be shipped over from Germany in the summer, but Mr Overbury revealed the hosepipe ban could scupper the project.
He said: “We’re pretty confident that we should be able to get the new bean tree to flourish – but with the hosepipe ban over the summer of 2006, we’re not sure how we will continue to irrigate the rest of the front quad this year.”
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