In fruit
Roughly 1,500 to 2,000 years old.
Photo: Algimantas Navickas, Arnoldas Abramavičius, Gintautas Antanavičius, Arvydas Veik (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ancient trees in Lithuania
Ancient Trees maps 8 places and 28 trees across Lithuania, most of them protected by a single Environment Ministry order rather than a city ordinance: one order, issued on one day in April 2018, designated five trees at once around the small town of Priekulė. We map 70 trees in 25 cities here. The oldest of them is The Stelmužė Oak in Stelmužė, at at least 1,500 years old, possibly as much as 2,000.
The country's oldest confirmed tree, the Peace Hill Oak above the Kaunas reservoir, carries a name and role handed down from an earlier 800-year-old oak that a 2007 arson attack finally destroyed; Trainiškis does the same for a tree lost to a 2016 storm, mapping the honest young clone planted at its stump rather than pretending it is what it replaced. Braziūkai's Motinėlė, the country's thickest recorded lime trunk, sheltered insurgents against Russian rule in 1863, and Raudonė's seven-trunked lime was voted Lithuania's Tree of the Year in 2018. Lithuania protects its trees by decree; it does not always know how old they are.
Every place we map in Lithuania
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Vilnius12 trees · oldest 400 years2
Kaunas10 trees · oldest 600 years3
Plunge7 trees · oldest 600-700 years4
Pagramantis Regional Park5 trees · oldest 600 years5
Priekulė5 trees6Šilalė4 trees · oldest ~90 years7Degsne3 trees · oldest 175 years8
Raudonė3 trees · oldest 400 years9
Vainiai3 trees · oldest 300 years10
Plauginiai Forest2 trees · oldest 300-350 years11
Žalgiriai2 trees · oldest 300 years12Braziūkai1 tree · oldest 300 years13
Gojaus Miskas1 tree · oldest 400 years14
Grybiskes1 tree15
Kintai1 tree · oldest 100-125 years16
Kybarciai1 tree · oldest 500-700 years17Liškiava1 tree · oldest 400 years18
Pajūris1 tree · oldest 175-300 years19Renavas1 tree · oldest 150 years20Stelmužė1 tree · oldest 1,500 years21
Stokaičiai1 tree22Trainiškis1 tree · oldest planted 201723Vepriai1 tree24
Vytogala1 tree · oldest 100 years25Žadeikoniai1 tree
Vilnius12 trees · oldest 400 years2Kaunas10 trees · oldest 600 years3Plunge7 trees · oldest 600-700 years4Pagramantis Regional Park5 trees · oldest 600 years5Priekulė5 trees6Šilalė4 trees · oldest ~90 years7Degsne3 trees · oldest 175 years8Raudonė3 trees · oldest 400 years9Vainiai3 trees · oldest 300 years10Plauginiai Forest2 trees · oldest 300-350 years11Žalgiriai2 trees · oldest 300 years12Braziūkai1 tree · oldest 300 years13Gojaus Miskas1 tree · oldest 400 years14Grybiskes1 tree15Kintai1 tree · oldest 100-125 years16Kybarciai1 tree · oldest 500-700 years17Liškiava1 tree · oldest 400 years18Pajūris1 tree · oldest 175-300 years19Renavas1 tree · oldest 150 years20Stelmužė1 tree · oldest 1,500 years21Stokaičiai1 tree22Trainiškis1 tree · oldest planted 201723Vepriai1 tree24Vytogala1 tree · oldest 100 years25Žadeikoniai1 tree16 species grow in Lithuania
Oaks Pedunculate Oak 39 · Oak 5
Beeches Copper Beech 1 · European Beech 1
Limes Small-leaved Lime 8 · Large-leaved Lime 2
Conifers Scots Pine 2 · Norway Spruce 1 · Silver Fir 1 · Swiss Pine 1 · Western Red Cedar 1
More broadleaf trees European Ash 3 · Amur Cork Tree 1 · Birch 1 · European Larch 1 · White Poplar 1
The 10 oldest trees we map in Lithuania
In fruit
Roughly 600 to 700 years old.
Photo: Vilensija (CC BY-SA 3.0)
In fruit
Roughly 500 to 700 years old.
Photo: Vilensija (CC BY-SA 3.0)
In fruit
Roughly 500 to 650 years old.
Photo: Vilensija (CC BY-SA 3.0)
In fruit
Roughly 400 to 700 years old.
Roughly 400 to 500 years old.
In fruit
Roughly 400 to 500 years old.
In fruit
Roughly 380 to 420 years old.
Photo: Vilensija (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Roughly 350 to 450 years old.
Photo: Darius Petrulis (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Roughly 350 to 400 years old.
Trees from Lithuania also appear in Autumn Worth the Trip · The Autumn Harvest · The Trees the World Has Written About. See every city on the map, or open the map to find what is near you.