The Giant Plane

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

Name of the tree in Polish – Olbrzym – means very large, huge thing (even a person).

The Giant is about 300 years old, according to the dendrochronological research, and once stood in the Viereck'scher Garten. It is monumental, 35-metre tall tree with a circumference of the trunk - 1066 cm (in 2014, at the tightest place - 0.45m height). Its circumference at the breast height (CBH) is 11m (in 2015).

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

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

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

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

References

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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

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