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Salix arizonica is a species of willow known by the common name Arizona willow. It is native to the southwestern United States, where it occurs in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. [1] This shrub varies in size and shape, occurring in low mats or upright, sometimes forming thickets. [2] It reaches 2.6 [3] to 3 meters [2] in maximum height.
According to local folklore, it was Robin Hood's shelter where he and his merry men slept. It weighs an estimated 23 tons, has a girth of 33 feet (10 metres), a canopy of 92 feet (28 metres), and is about 800–1,000 years old.
Errol Flynn as Robin Hood forms his outlaw band beside the tree (called the "Gallows Oak" in the film). The local branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism, an international non-profit focusing on pre-17th Century history, is named "The Barony of Rivenoak" after the Hooker Oak. A wood from the tree appears in their ceremonial coronet.
Robin Hood's Larder (also known as the Butcher's Oak, the Slaughter Tree and the Shambles Oak) was a veteran tree in Sherwood Forest that measured 24 feet (7.3 m) in circumference. The tree had long been hollow and is reputed to have been used by the legendary outlaw Robin Hood and others as a larder for poached meat. It was badly burnt by fire ...
The first clear reference to "rhymes of Robin Hood" is from the alliterative poem Piers Plowman, thought to have been composed in the 1370s, followed shortly afterwards by a quotation of a later common proverb, [5] "many men speak of Robin Hood and never shot his bow", [6] in Friar Daw's Reply (c. 1402) [7] and a complaint in Dives and Pauper ...
The tree was cut down sometime between Sept. 27 and 28 and caused some damage to Hadrian’s Wall, a Roman-era landmark and a UNESCO World Heritage Site built nearly 2,000 years ago.