The Giant Plane

Trunk of the tree, from the west side.

The Giant - this is a London plane tree, located in the city Chojna, Poland. It is one of the thickest trees in this country.[1]

Name of the tree in Polish – Olbrzym – means 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 monumental, 35-metre[4] tall tree with a circumference of the trunk - 1066 cm (in 2014, at the tightest place - 0.45m height).[4][5] Its circumference at the breast height (CBH) is 11m (in 2015).[6]

This plane has large, probably multistemmed, ellipsoid-shaped trunk. It forks at the height of 2.5 and 5m metres, creating large crown.[1][4]

The tree nowadays is preserved by local government, because earlier it was set on fire a few times.[7] From 2011 there is a fence around tree and latticework, to protect The Giant from birds and insects.[7]

In 2012 specimen was among the best trees in the competition of the tree of the year in Poland.[8]

This is 3rd thickest tree in Poland, also the largest and oldest London plane.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Polish Monumental Trees Register (PMTR)
  2. ↑ Wiktionary - olbrzym
  3. ↑ Cezary Pacyniak. Najstarsze drzewa w Polsce. PTTK Kraj. 1992. p.?.
  4. 1 2 3 Krzysztof Borkowski, Robert Tomusiak, Paweł Zarzyński. Drzewa Polski. PWN. 2016. p.452
  5. ↑ Krzysztof Borkowski. Polskie drzewa. DALPO. 2014. p.42
  6. ↑ Monumental trees
  7. 1 2 Chojna locality
  8. ↑ Holiday of the tree - competition

Further reading

  1. Paweł Zarzyński, Robert Tomusiak, Krzysztof Borkowski, Drzewa Polski, PWN, Warszawa, 2016, ISBN 978-83-01-18438-4
  2. Krzysztof Borkowski, Polskie drzewa, Wyd. DALPO, Poznań, 2014, ISBN 978-83-61766-08-7
  3. Paweł Zarzyński, Robert Tomusiak, 90 drzew - Okazy niezwykłe Centrum Informacyjne Lasów Państwowych, Warszawa, 2014, ISBN 978-83-63895-16-7

See also

Coordinates: 52°57′59″N 14°25′47″E / 52.966500°N 14.429700°E / 52.966500; 14.429700

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