Roughly 450 to 550 years old.
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Ancient trees in Croatia
Croatia's classified trees cluster around two very different kinds of site. We map 12 trees in 6 cities here. The oldest of them is Gupčeva lipa in Gornja Stubica, at at least 450 years.
Trsteno's arboretum on the coast near Dubrovnik still grows two Oriental planes a sea captain is said to have carried home from Constantinople five centuries ago, trunks over five metres round, alongside a run of 19th-century plantings, a ginkgo, a cedar of Lebanon, a yew, each with a planting date recorded to the year rather than estimated from growth rings. Inland, a single lime at Gornja Stubica marks a different history: tradition holds that Matija Gubec gathered his followers under its canopy in January 1573 before leading the Croatian-Slovene Peasant Revolt, an uprising that ended in his execution and has stayed central to Croatian memory since. Split's old town keeps its own smaller cluster, a mulberry, a cypress and a walnut, all a little over a century old.
Every place we map in Croatia
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Dubrovnik4 trees · oldest 500 years2Split4 trees · oldest ~130 years3Daruvar1 tree · oldest 250 years4Gornja Stubica1 tree · oldest 450 years5Krka National Park1 tree · oldest 400 years6
Perušić1 tree
Dubrovnik4 trees · oldest 500 years2Split4 trees · oldest ~130 years3Daruvar1 tree · oldest 250 years4Gornja Stubica1 tree · oldest 450 years5Krka National Park1 tree · oldest 400 years6Perušić1 tree9 species grow in Croatia
Planes Oriental Plane 1
Limes Lime 1
Chestnuts, walnuts and hazels Black Walnut 1
Figs and mulberries White Mulberry 2
Conifers Ginkgo 3 · Cedar of Lebanon 1 · European Yew 1 · Mediterranean Cypress 1 · Silver Fir 1
The 10 oldest trees we map in Croatia
Roughly 450 to 550 years old.
Roughly 300 to 400 years old.
Autumn colour
Roughly 240 to 260 years old.
Autumn colour
Roughly 165 to 170 years old.
In fruit
Roughly 165 to 170 years old.
In fruit
Roughly 150 to 158 years old.
Roughly 120 to 140 years old.
Roughly 115 to 122 years old.
Autumn colour
Roughly 90 to 160 years old.
Trees from Croatia also appear in Autumn Worth the Trip · The Autumn Harvest · The Trees the World Has Written About. See every city on the map, or open the map to find what is near you.