Measure this lime at chest height and you get 5.45 metres of single trunk. Half a metre higher it stops being one tree: the stem forks in two, and the base underneath it is hollowed and split open. Lithuania made it a state-protected natural heritage object in March 2026 and drew a protection zone of 0.028 hectares around it, roughly 280 square metres of village ground that now belongs to the tree. The designation is that recent, which is also why almost nothing has been written about the tree. Beyond its register entry and a single Lithuanian reference page, it has gone undescribed. What stands there is 27.5 metres of lime on the main street of Bagrėnas, beside an old homestead, at an address that reads Liepų gatvė 132. Linden Street. Nobody has published an age. A girth on its own will not honestly produce one either, not for a lime: they fork, hollow out and put on wood at rates too variable for the arithmetic to mean much. If somebody has dated this one, tell us and the figure goes on the page. Getting there means a car. Degsnė's other two trees stand 12 to 17 kilometres off in Balbieriškis Forest, which makes an unhurried afternoon of all three and is far more than anyone is walking between them.
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Liepų g. 132, Bagrėnas village, Prienai district
You can recognise it by the trunk splitting in two about 1.8 metres up, above a base that is hollowed and split open, 5.45 metres round below the fork. It stands on the main street of Bagrėnas, beside the homestead at Liepų g. 132.
Free; stands beside the main street of Bagrėnas village, near an old homestead at Liepų g. 132. No source states whether the roadside spot itself is fenced; treat it as visible and reachable from the public village street, the same honest caveat already used for other homestead-adjacent trees in this district (compare Kaunas kun_006).
No public transport; reached by car via road KK130, then about 3.4km southeast into Bagrėnas village. Roughly 12-17km by straight-line distance from Degsnė's other two trees (deg_001, deg_002) in Balbieriškis Forest; real road distance is likely greater. A plausible day-trip pairing in the same district, not a walk between the two.
In bloom
June to July, when the lime flowers and the whole street smells of it
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.
Sources
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: Saugomų teritorijų valstybės kadastras (STVK), no. 0310506000178
- lt.wikipedia.org
- stvk.lt
- vstt.lrv.lt
- Lietuvos Respublikos saugomų teritorijų valstybės kadastras (STVK), gamtos paveldo objektai, botanical objects, no. 0310506000178