This oak grows in the one part of a royal palace garden built to look like it wasn't designed at all.
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Ancient Trees in the Schlosspark Nymphenburg
Munich, Germany
Munich protects trees by law here for reasons written down in a city ordinance, and two of these five are protected for being odd rather than big.
A large-leaved lime by the Badenburger See is listed as bizarrer und knorriger Wuchs, bizarre and gnarled growth, which is an unusually honest thing for a legal document to say. There is also a weeping beech protected partly because people are fond of it, an oak in the Dorfchen, the part of a royal garden built to look undesigned, and a fern-leaved beech of a form that did not exist anywhere before about 1804.
Every copper beech in Europe descends from an accident.
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Munich protects this lime, in law, for being strange looking.
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No fern-leaved beech anywhere is much more than two centuries old, because the tree did not exist before about 1804.
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Munich protects this beech partly because people are fond of it.
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