The Plane of the Avenida de Bécquer
At 4.70 metres round, this is the widest plane in Seville's survey of its singular trees, wider than either the Macarena wall plane or the Glorieta de Juanita Reina plane already published on this site, though at 23 metres it is not the tallest. Its estimated base girth runs to about 6 metres, and the same two insects recorded on its Juanita Reina neighbour turn up here too, Kalotermes flavicollis and Synanthedon codeti, without dragging the tree's overall condition below good; the survey did flag its structure as compromised, worth a look if you visit. It stands on the Avenida de Bécquer, a walk through Parque de María Luisa named for Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, the Sevillian Romantic poet whose monument sits nearby in the park. Named avenues of plane trees are one of the standard structural devices Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier used when he redesigned the park's grounds for the 1929 exposition, and this is one specimen out of what was originally a planted row. The coordinate is the catalogue's own; not independently re-verified.
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.
Parque de María Luisa, Avenida de Bécquer, 41013 SevillaYou can recognise it by the trunk, 4.70 metres round and the widest plane in the city's survey, about 6 metres at the base. It stands on the Avenida de Bécquer, shorter at 23 metres than the plane in the Glorieta de Juanita Reina.
Free, public park
10 min walk from Prado de San Sebastián bus/tram interchange, inside Parque de María Luisa
Sources
Where the facts on this page come from.
- In the official register: Inventario de Arboles Singulares de la Ciudad de Sevilla (Ayuntamiento de Sevilla, 2022), no. ficha 43
- femas.es
- sevilla.org
