Sitkūnai Forest Oak II
How do I find it? You can recognise it by the cave-like hollows under the base of the trunk, which is 4.25 metres round at chest height. It stands within sight of the forest-edge track, 160 metres from Oak I, the wider of the two.
The only photograph of this oak is captioned with the word olos, caves, for the hollows under the base of its trunk. That is what a hollowing oak looks like at ground level: the stem parts company with its own roots and leaves openings underneath it. Nobody has measured how tall it is. The entry for it carries a question mark where the height should go, which is a fair indication of how much attention this tree has had. What has been measured is the trunk, 4.25 metres round at chest height, making it the narrower of the two Sitkūnai oaks. Oak I stands 160 metres off at 4.45. The two were protected on the same day, 18 June 2026, under one ministerial order, and the Lithuanian accounts of them treat the pair as a pair rather than promoting either one. That is the right way round. Neither is a famous tree, and the reason to come out here is that there are two of this size in one small wood, with a third a kilometre on. No age exists for this oak, and we are not going to produce one from a tape measure. If you know of a figure, tell us. There is no public transport. It is 18 kilometres from central Kaunas by car, then 160 metres on foot from Oak I, with the Kiaunupis Oak 900 metres beyond that.
- Species
- Pedunculate Oak (Quercus robur)
- Age estimate
- not documented
- Girth
- 4.25 m
- Location
- Sitkūnai Forest, 160m from Sitkūnai Forest Oak I, Babtai eldership, Kaunas district (Sitkūnai, Kaunas district)
- Access
- Free, public state forest, same biosphere polygon as Sitkūnai Forest Oak I; noticeable from a gravel track running along the forest edge. No gate, fee or restriction mentioned by any source.
- Getting there
- No public transport; reached by car, about 18km by straight-line distance from central Kaunas, 160m on foot from Sitkūnai Forest Oak I (kun_007) and part of the same small forest cluster as the Kiaunupis Oak (kun_009).
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