A view of coppice coup in Ashwellthorpe wood in mid-May 2019. The picture shows an area that was coppiced in the preceding winter. The cut stools at ground level are hazel, Corylus avellana. The standard trees in the foreground are Ash, Fraxinus excelsior. Most have not produced fresh foliage because they are dying due to Ash Dieback Disease. The tree to the right (forked) has leaves, but also shows dieback at the tips of branches. The two leafy standard trees in the background are oaks. Ash die-back disease was first confirmed in the UK natural environment in 2012 at this site, in the East of England. It results from fungal infection by Hymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus ( also known as Chalara fraxinea ), an organism that is thought to have arrived in the UK on imported seedling trees.