Nobody planted Bošáca's third champion tree. A bird did, or the wind: a seed from a cultivated pear somewhere nearby landed on the sunny slope of Lysica Hill and took root on its own. Roughly 150 years later it is a wild pear ten metres tall, with a trunk 195 centimetres round. That sets it apart from its two famous neighbours in Zabudišová, four kilometres away. The pink pear and the heirloom apple there were planted for their fruit. This one is Pyrus pyraster, the wild species, and big self-seeded pears like it are part of what the White Carpathian landscape around the Bošácka valley looks like: a valley that grew fruit for generations, scattering its own trees across the hills. On Lysica it has become a landmark for the paragliders and model-aircraft flyers who use the hill. In 2024 the municipality nominated it for Slovakia's Tree of the Year, and it won with 2,298 votes, the village's third national title after the pear in 2015 and the apple in 2017. At the European final in 2025 it placed fifth, with 23,729 votes. The contest's own account and an independent Slovak news report both give its age as 150 years.
foot of Lysica Hill, Bošáca, Nové Mesto nad Váhom District You can recognise it as a wild pear about 10 metres tall with a trunk 195 centimetres round. It stands on the open slope at the foot of Lysica Hill, 4 km from Bošáca's two other champion fruit trees in Zabudišová.
Free, open hillside at the foot of Lysica Hill above the Bošácka valley; the tree is described as a landmark for local paragliders and model-aircraft flyers, which implies open recreational ground rather than fenced land. No gate, ticket or access restriction mentioned in any source; not confirmed via OSM tags (Overpass query failed from this environment).
Rural hillside above Bošáca village; nearest town Nové Mesto nad Váhom, roughly 15 minutes by car, same as the other two Bošáca trees. No public transport stop at the tree itself.
