Raudonėで最も古い樹木はどれですか。
The Raudonė Castle Lime, a small-leaved lime with seven trunks growing in the park of Raudonė Castle, estimated at about 400 years old by the state register. Two further oaks within Panemunių Regional Park, across the Nemunas, are day-trip additions rather than closer rivals for the title.
In 2018 the Lithuanian Arboriculture Centre named this lime the country's Tree of the Year, and it went on to represent Lithuania in the European Tree of the Year 2019 contest. Its seven trunks spread into an egg-shaped canopy 20 metres tall and 19 wide, covering some 220 square metres of the castle park. A metal rod is embedded between two trunks about three metres up, and local legend says seven serfs were once chained to it and whipped to death, and that the tree split into seven trunks from the horror of it. The state register puts its actual age at roughly 400 years. The castle now houses a primary school, but the park and tower are an established, ticketed attraction, so the tree is reachable despite the school on site. Two oaks widen the visit into Panemunių Regional Park proper. The Plokščiai Oak stands 2.8 kilometres away on the opposite bank, beside a war memorial, once hollow enough for children to climb inside, 34 metres tall. The Ilguva Oak is a longer detour, 12.7 kilometres out, off any marked path and dated at 300 to 400 years, the oldest confirmed age here.