This oak does not have a name. The state gave it a number instead: Sitkūnai Forest Oak I, with Oak II standing 160 metres away through the trees. Both arrived on Lithuania's protected list on the same day, 18 June 2026, under one ministerial order that also took in the Kiaunupis Oak a kilometre off. Three oaks, one decree, one small corner of the Babtai forests. The designation is that recent, so beyond the state register and a single Lithuanian reference page almost nothing has been written about any of them. That is a gap rather than a doubt: the register carries the coordinates and the measurements, and the two accounts of this tree agree to within a few metres. Oak I is the tall one. 28 metres, 4.45 metres round at chest height, and higher up it divides, three stems leaving the trunk two to three metres above the ground and going their own ways. It grows in sparse mixed forest about 200 metres from an isolated homestead, beside the gravel track that runs along the fields, which is as close as any road gets. No source gives an age. If you know of a survey or a ring count, tell us. There is no bus. This is 18 kilometres out of Kaunas by car, and once you are parked the three trees are a walk rather than a drive: Oak II at 160 metres, the Kiaunupis Oak at about 900.
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Sitkūnai Forest, 0.7km southeast of the Via Baltica viaduct at Sitkūnai, Babtai eldership, Kaunas district
You can recognise it by the three stems that leave the single trunk two to three metres up, 28 metres tall and 4.45 metres round below the fork. It stands in sparse forest by the gravel track, 160 metres from Oak II.
Free, public state forest (Sitkūnai Forest, part of the Babtai-Varluva forest biosphere polygon); reached along a gravel track past an isolated forest homestead (Girininkijos g. 15), then on foot at the forest edge. No gate, fee or restriction mentioned by any source.
No public transport; reached by car, about 18km by straight-line distance from central Kaunas. Stands 160m from Sitkūnai Forest Oak II (this batch's kun_008) and about 0.9km from the Kiaunupis Oak (kun_009), so all three can be walked as one small forest cluster once you have driven in.
In fruit
September to October: acorns drop, and a good mast year buries the ground in them
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. 0310506000160
- lt.wikipedia.org
- stvk.lt
- vstt.lrv.lt
- Lietuvos Respublikos saugomų teritorijų valstybės kadastras (STVK), gamtos paveldo objektai, botanical objects, no. 0310506000160