The Giant Plane
The Giant is a London plane tree, located in the city Chojna, Poland. It is one of the thickest trees in the country.[1]
The name of the tree in Polish – Olbrzym – means a very large, huge thing (even a person).[2]
The Giant is about 300 years old, according to the dendrochronological research,[3] and once stood in the Viereck'scher Garten. It is a monumental, 35 m[4] tall tree with a trunk circumference of 1066 cm (in 2014, at the narrowest place, 0.45 m high).[4][5] Its circumference at breast height (CBH) is 11 m (in 2015).[6]
This plane has a large, probably multistemmed, ellipsoid trunk. It forks at heights of 2.5 and 5 m, creating a large crown.[1][4]
The tree is preserved by the local government because it had been set on fire several times.[7] Since 2011 it is fenced to protect it from birds and insects.[7]
In 2012, it was judged among the best trees in the competition for tree of the year in Poland.[8]
The Giant Plane is the third thickest tree in Poland, and the largest and oldest London plane in the country.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Polish Monumental Trees Register (PMTR)
- ^ Wiktionary - olbrzym
- ^ Cezary Pacyniak. Najstarsze drzewa w Polsce. PTTK Kraj. 1992. p.?.
- ^ a b c Krzysztof Borkowski, Robert Tomusiak, Paweł Zarzyński. Drzewa Polski. PWN. 2016. p.452
- ^ Krzysztof Borkowski. Polskie drzewa. DALPO. 2014. p.42
- ^ Monumental trees
- ^ a b Chojna locality
- ^ Holiday of the tree - competition
Further reading
[edit]- Paweł Zarzyński, Robert Tomusiak, Krzysztof Borkowski, Drzewa Polski, PWN, Warszawa, 2016, ISBN 978-83-01-18438-4
- Krzysztof Borkowski, Polskie drzewa, Wyd. DALPO, Poznań, 2014, ISBN 978-83-61766-08-7
- Paweł Zarzyński, Robert Tomusiak, 90 drzew - Okazy niezwykłe Centrum Informacyjne Lasów Państwowych, Warszawa, 2014, ISBN 978-83-63895-16-7