The Plane of the Trocadero Gardens
16th arrondissement
This plane has the Eiffel Tower across the river and no birthday. The city's register lists it as remarkable, 490 centimetres round and 28 metres tall, and leaves the planting date blank. So does the printed fact sheet. Nobody has written down when it went in. The gardens around it have a well-documented past, even if the tree does not. The Jardins du Trocadero were laid out for the Exposition Universelle of 1878 on the slope below the old Trocadero palace, and rebuilt for the 1937 exhibition, when the Palais de Chaillot replaced it. A plane this size could have come in with either, or between them, and we will not pretend to know which. If you know, or have an old postcard of the gardens that shows this corner, tell us. The practical problem is that these gardens are full of planes. The register's point sits among them, near the Iena end, close to the metro, and the pin is approximate. Look for a trunk close to five metres round. The gardens are free and open to everyone.
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Jardin du Trocadero, 3 place de Varsovie, 75016 Paris
You can recognise it by the trunk, close to five metres round, on a plane about 28 metres tall. It stands in the Jardins du Trocadero toward the Iena side, near the metro station.
Free public gardens (hours seasonal, not fetched).
Iena (M9) about 1 minute (a station geotag lies 51 m away), Trocadero (M6, M9).
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: Arbres remarquables de Paris (Ville de Paris), no. 108281
- capgeo.sig.paris.fr
