Dead sweet chestnut a deciduous tree in early spring with no branches having falling down and leaving exposed forest floor bare for new colonisation

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Size: 3804px × 5700px
Location: Sevenoaks, Kent, UK
Photo credit: © Yon Marsh Natural History / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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