Roughly 470 to 530 years old.
Ancient trees in Latvia
Latvia's old trees are mostly oaks and limes, and several are hollow. This page maps 8 remarkable trees across 4 cities in Latvia, each one researched and verified. The oldest of them is The Sēja Oak (Sējas ozols) in Sēja, at roughly 500 years.
The Elku linden in Valdemārpils is the thickest lime in the Baltic states, and visitors read owls, hedgehogs, turtles and snakes in the shapes inside its trunk. The Kaņepju Oak at Jērcēni, split by lightning, is said to hold eight people. The Sēja Oak carries a story of chieftains meeting beneath it that at least one Latvian source calls a recent invention; the tree, roughly 500 years old, needs no such claim. Riga is the easiest place to go on foot, and its trees carry the city's own record-keeping: a linden with a rowan growing from its fork, an oak patched for decades with metal plates, and a maple that went from four metres round in 1975 to 5.34 by 2009. Three places mapped so far, eight trees, most of them oaks and limes with damage they have outlived.
Every place we map in Latvia
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Riga5 trees · oldest roughly 330 years2Jērcēni1 tree · oldest 450 to 800 years3Sēja1 tree · oldest roughly 500 years4Valdemārpils1 tree · oldest disputed, 250 to 500 years
Riga5 trees · oldest roughly 330 years2Jērcēni1 tree · oldest 450 to 800 years3Sēja1 tree · oldest roughly 500 years4Valdemārpils1 tree · oldest disputed, 250 to 500 years3 species grow in Latvia
Oaks Pedunculate Oak 5
Limes Small-leaved Lime 2
Maples Norway Maple 1
The 8 oldest trees we map in Latvia
Roughly 450 to 825 years old.
Roughly 280 to 380 years old.
Roughly 250 to 500 years old.
Roughly 250 to 350 years old.
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Roughly 150 to 250 years old.
Roughly 120 to 160 years old.
Photo: Edgars Košovojs (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Roughly 100 to 180 years old.
Trees from Latvia also appear in Autumn Worth the Trip · The Autumn Harvest · The Oldest Tree in Every City We Map. See every city on the map, or open the map to find what is near you.