Nobody plants a sycamore on purpose any more.
Ancient Trees in the Parc d'Egmont
Brussels started its official inventory of remarkable trees in this park, with a squat evergreen oak that most people walk past.
The Parc d'Egmont is small, hidden behind the shops of the Avenue Louise, and holds sixteen of the trees we map within a couple of minutes of each other, which makes it one of the densest pockets on the site. Among them is a ginkgo that is the seventh thickest recorded anywhere in the region and is being slowly damaged by the people who like it, and a tulip tree formally adopted by an art institute a few streets away.
All 16 stand in Brussels, which maps 35 remarkable trees in total.
This cedar has spent its life pretending to be a broadleaf.
Every register starts somewhere, and Brussels started here.
This ginkgo is being slowly harmed by people who like it.
In autumn 2018 a Brussels art institute adopted this tree.
Brussels Environment's own walking route through this park gives up on describing this tree and simply says that in autumn you will notice it before you read the sign.
The second thickest tree in this park ranks ninety eighth of its species across Brussels, which says more about the city than about the tree.
The horse chestnut is one of the most planted trees in Europe and one of the rarest in the wild.
Seventy metres separate this tree from its own hybrid offspring.
In Dutch this tree is the doodsbeenderenboom, the dead men's bones tree.
Parc d'Egmont has two Turner's oaks, and the region's own tree atlas has spent years quietly mixing up their measurements.
A pair of white mulberries flanks the Passage de Milan gate into Parc d'Egmont, one on each side, thick enough that the region's own tree inventory ranks the pair among the eighth-thickest of their...
Holly is a hedge in most of Brussels, and a sprig on a card in December.
Brussels files this tree under a name and a nationality that are both wrong.
A weeping ash has no top of its own.
A wild honey locust grows thorns hard enough to go through a tyre.
Opening times and visitor information: Bruxelles Environnement.
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