Buk u rybníčku means the beech by the little pond, and in Nová Ves pod Pleší, forty kilometres southwest of Prague, the name has outlived the pond. The beech stands by a former pond at the edge of the village, a protected memorial tree since 2004, 308 centimetres round. Its official record reads like a veteran's medical file: a branch torn away, an open wound, tinder fungus at the crown, and birds nesting in a cavity. It is falling apart slowly and still growing. Free, on open ground.
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Buk u rybníčku
European Beech (Fagus sylvatica) · not documented · Nová Ves pod Pleší, about 9km from Dobříš
Birds nest in this beech, and a fungus is eating it, and both facts are in the official record. When Czech conservationists inspected the tree in 2019 they noted a large branch torn away and a big open wound, rot, tinder fungus fruiting at the base of the crown, and a smaller cavity in use as a nest. Fifteen years earlier, in 2004, the same record had found one open cavity and a crown only five percent dead. It is a veteran in the full sense of the word: old enough to be falling apart, and still doing it slowly.
It stands by a former pond on the edge of Nová Ves pod Pleší, roughly forty kilometres southwest of Prague, which is where the name comes from: Buk u rybníčku, the beech by the little pond. The state declared it a memorial tree in September 2004. A regional heritage site counts it as one of the village's two memorial trees and says stories have already grown up around it, without telling us which.
The trunk is 308 centimetres round. That is modest for a lone park beech and respectable for one that grew up with neighbours competing for light, which is what this one is.
Nobody has published an age for it, and we are not going to invent one. If you know the village's stories, or when the pond was drained, we would like to hear them.
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