Trepileegen, the Three-Willow Oak of Dyrehaven

Measured at chest height in March 2017, this oak came to 8.90 metres round. The register's headline figure of 9.65 metres is taken at a different height on the same trunk, which is how one tree ends up carrying two sizes. The lower number is the one to use when comparing it with anything else. Either way it is one of the giants of Jægersborg Dyrehave, the royal deer park north of the city, where red, sika and fallow deer still have the run of eleven square kilometres. The oak grows on more than one stem and its base steps outward near the ground; a Danish hiking blog that walked the park's named oaks describes that base as making the tree climbable, which is the sort of detail only somebody who put their hands on it would write down. Nobody has cored it, so the age is arithmetic rather than a record. A girth of 8.90 metres gives a trunk about 2.8 metres across, and standard growth rates for an oak grown in the open put that somewhere between roughly 350 and 550 years. The band is wide because the method is. The name Trepileegen translates as the Three-Willow Oak. What the three willows were, or whether they ever stood here, is not explained by any source we found.