The Plane Tree of Jászai Mari Square

This plane tree was young when the Margit Bridge beside it was blown up in the Second World War, and it kept growing. It was almost certainly planted in the late 1930s, when Jászai Mari tér was still called Rudolf tér, and it is one of the last of the planes Budapest set along its streets in those years. Today it measures 250 centimetres round and about 25 metres tall. It has had good neighbours. The widow of the poet Miklós Radnóti, known around the square as Fifi néni, watched it for decades from her flat nearby, and György Faludy, Margit Kovács and Pál Réz all lived beside the square. The tree has stood through the siege, the years after it and the steady traffic of trams 4 and 6 at the Pest end of the bridge, and it is still the landmark locals point to. In 2016 Hungary voted it the country's Tree of the Year, and at the 2017 European final it came 13th with 5,132 votes. Its age comes from the contest's own application, which put it at 80 to 90 years in 2016; about 95 now is arithmetic on that, since nobody has measured it again. The sources say only that it is a plane, not which kind. If you can tell a London plane from an oriental one standing under it, tell us which this is.