Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the fruit of oil palm trees. These oil palms are usually grown across the equator but mostly in Indonesia and Malaysia which account for more than 90% of palm oil production today.
Relatives of those who have died at LOROS hospice are now able to remember their loved ones in a special way. The chaplaincy department at the hospice recently commissioned local artist Liam Hadjipetrou to design and create a memory tree to be situated in the chapel/prayer room.
To Pollard a tree is to remove all / most of the foliage of a tree, forcing it to reshoot from the ends of a trunk or branch, the subsequent re-growth is then removed on a cyclical basis which is set from 1 – 5 years dependen upon the use and species.
The world’s oldest recorded tree is a 9,550 year old spruce in the Dalarna province of Sweden. The spruce tree has shown to be a tenacious survivor that has endured by growing between erect trees and smaller bushes in pace with the dramatic climate changes over time.