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Brata Alberta Lime

Agenot documented
Girth3.2 m
SpeciesSmall-leaved Lime

Somebody in the forest service named this lime after a saint. It stands on the register as Lipa Brata Alberta, the Brother Albert Lime, for St Brother Albert Chmielowski, and it is the smallest of three protected trees on one plot in section 178n of the Rudak forestry district: 320 centimetres round, against the neighbouring lime's 380 and the oak's 375. All three were made nature monuments in a single resolution of the Wielka Nieszawka council on 7 October 2014. One source carries it, the Gniewkowo forest district's own conservation page, citing that resolution. It gives species, girth and plot and nothing else, which is why this entry is flagged. Nobody has recorded an age either, and 320 centimetres of small-leaved lime says the tree is old without saying how old. If you have seen a date for it anywhere, we would like to know. The three trunks stand within about fifteen metres of each other in ordinary working state forest ten kilometres north of Toruń. There is no gate, no ticket and nothing laid on for visitors: Lasy Panstwowe ground, open to walk under Poland's general right of access. The reward for finding the turning is a group rather than a single tree, an oak and two limes protected in one sentence of municipal law and left otherwise entirely alone.

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Lesnictwo Rudak forest section 178n, Brzoza, Gmina Wielka Nieszawka

You can recognise it as the smallest of the three protected trunks here, about 3.2 metres round. It stands within fifteen metres of the Gniewko Oak and the Bolka Lime, section 178n, Brzoza.

No public-transport stop at Brzoza itself; roughly 10km / 20 minutes by car or bike north of Toruń city centre

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June to July, when it flowers

The line is our estimate of how much there is to see, not a measurement. Typical for this species where this tree stands; exact weeks shift with the year.

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Where the facts on this page come from. The story was written with AI from these sources, and readers who know the tree correct it.

  • In the official register: Centralny Rejestr Form Ochrony Przyrody (CRFOP, GDOS), no. PL.ZIPOP.1393.PP.0415082.6011
  • gov.pl
  • wikidata.org

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