The Hungarian Oak of Bispebjerg Kirkegard

This oak is a long way from home. Quercus frainetto grows wild in southeastern Europe, in the Balkans and down into southern Italy, so nothing about it is a Danish survivor: somebody planted it here on purpose, and it has done well enough to reach 4.19 metres round and 23.5 metres tall. The register describes it as free-standing and full-crowned, which in a cemetery means it has had the space and the light to build the shape it wanted, without competition on any side. It stands about 90 metres northwest of Nordre Kapel at Bispebjerg Kirkegård, where the city planted whole avenues of poplar, pine, ash, hornbeam and Japanese cherry and ended up with something closer to a collection than a churchyard. The leaves settle the identification on the spot. Hungarian oak carries the largest leaves of any European oak, deeply cut into many lobes and crowded toward the ends of the shoots, so the crown looks heavier and darker than a Danish oak's from a distance. Only the register names the tree. The city's cemetery page confirms the avenues and the public access and says nothing about this individual, and nobody has dated it, so no age is offered here.