The Plane Tree at the Annageer corner

The whole recorded history of this plane tree is one line in the national register: it was planted during the renovation of Delft's city ramparts. The line gives no year. What the register does give is a planting band of 1880 to 1890, which puts the tree at roughly 130 to 145 years old, and that band is the only date anybody has published for it. It stands where the Nieuwe Plantage meets the Annageer, on the strip of park that now runs along the old rampart line. From above it is one large rounded crown at the junction of the paths, touching its neighbours but plainly its own tree. The register files it under the municipality, in a park setting, open to visit. In its time on the old wall the tree has stood through the occupation of 1940 to 1945 and well over a century of Delft walking past on its way somewhere else. Like every London plane it sheds its bark in plates, leaving the trunk a patchwork of grey, olive and cream. It is also the start of a short walk. The elms of Kalverbos stand about 90 metres away, with that park's three planes close beside them. Nobody has published this tree's girth or height; if you have measured it, tell us.