Roughly 735 to 885 years old.
Ancient trees in Romania
Romania's best-known tree stands in front of a village church. This page maps 8 remarkable trees across 5 cities in Romania, each one researched and verified. The oldest of them is The Oak from Cajvana in Cajvana, at roughly 810 years.
In 2011 the lime of Leliceni, in the Szekler hills of Transylvania, won European Tree of the Year with 23,298 votes, after winning the national contest first. It has company in the north, where the town of Cajvana keeps a live camera on its oak, reckoned at roughly 810 years, and in the Cibin gorge near Sibiu, where a silver fir called the Guardian of Cibin rises about 42 metres. Bucharest adds a different kind of tree: a mulberry with a legend on a plaque in its church porch, a plane in Cișmigiu whose roots were cut by a lighting trench in 2018, a Turkish hazel that is one of only two officially protected in the country, and four ginkgos in the Botanical Garden. Five places mapped so far, eight trees, from mountain fir to city park.
Every place we map in Romania
1Bucharest4 trees · oldest 200-300+ years2Cajvana1 tree · oldest roughly 810 years3Căpeni1 tree · oldest roughly 300 years4Cheile Cibinului1 tree · oldest roughly 500 years5Leliceni1 tree · oldest roughly 500 years
8 species grow in Romania
Oaks Pedunculate Oak 1
Elms and zelkovas Field Elm 1
Planes London Plane 1
Limes Small-leaved Lime 1
Chestnuts, walnuts and hazels Turkish Hazel 1
Figs and mulberries White Mulberry 1
Conifers Ginkgo 1 · Silver Fir 1
The 8 oldest trees we map in Romania
Roughly 450 to 550 years old.
Roughly 450 to 550 years old.
Roughly 250 to 350 years old.
Roughly 200 to 320 years old.
Roughly 170 to 205 years old.
Roughly 100 to 145 years old.
Roughly 90 to 175 years old.
Trees from Romania also appear in Autumn Worth the Trip · The Autumn Harvest · The Oldest Tree in Every City We Map. See every city on the map, or open the map to find what is near you.