The Holm Oak of San Pantaleo

This is the thickest registered oak in Genoa's old town and the least documented tree on this list. The national monumental tree register gives it 305 centimetres of girth and 12 metres of height at an address on Via di San Pantaleo, in the dense Pre quarter behind Via Balbi, and that single sheet is the whole of what is known. No newspaper piece names it, no park authority claims it, no photograph turned up. Searching the street name mostly returns the deconsecrated church of San Pantaleo over by Staglieno cemetery, which is a different building in a different part of the city. So the pin here is marked approximate on purpose. We have the register's coordinates, but nothing confirms whether the tree stands where a passer-by can see it or behind a courtyard wall at that number, and this quarter is built almost entirely of walls. The age, roughly 200 to 350 years, is read off the girth, because the register records no ages. A holm oak that thick in streets this tight would have been growing before the surrounding blocks took their present shape, evergreen through every one of those winters. If you go and find it, tell us what is actually there. That is the fastest way this entry gets better.