This oak reached Italska Street before the hospital did.
Hungarian Oak
Quercus frainetto
Quercus frainetto is a large-leaved oak native to the Balkans and southeast Europe, reaching parks and streets further north only because someone planted it there on purpose. We map 10 of them, in 10 cities.
Its leaf is the giveaway, among the largest of any European oak and cut into many narrow lobes. Glasgow's grew from a single afternoon in April 1918: days after some British women won the vote, Louisa Lumsden planted it in Kelvingrove Park on behalf of four rival suffrage groups that agreed, for once, to plant a tree together. Krakow's, in Poland's oldest botanical garden, is 4.62 metres round. The Dutch register calls Arnhem's, in Park Zijpendaal, the tallest Hungarian oak measured in the Netherlands, leaning east from beeches that crowded it for a century. Warsaw's stands at the corner where Janusz Korczak ran his orphanage until 1942, and carries his name.
Prague
Leipzig
The tallest tree in Leipzig's register of natural monuments is not a native.
Photo: Vinaceus (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The Hague
Hungarian oak is a species most Dutch park visitors walk past without recognising, a large-leaved Balkan and southeast European oak that reaches the Netherlands only through deliberate 19th and ear...
Krakow
The Hungarian oak is a tree of the Balkans and the Carpathian basin, and Krakow sits several hundred kilometres north of anywhere it grows on its own.
Glasgow
Not every remarkable tree here began as a sapling nobody thought twice about.
Photo: Thomas Nugent, via Geograph/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Warsaw
Janusz Korczak ran his orphanage from this corner for 29 years, until German soldiers marched him and roughly 200 children from the building to a train bound for Treblinka in August 1942, where all...
Photo: Panek (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Copenhagen
This oak is a long way from home.
Photo: Hans Erik Lund
Amersfoort
Most oaks in a Dutch park are the native pedunculate oak.
Arnhem
The national register calls this the tallest Hungarian oak ever measured in the Netherlands, and, so far, in Europe.
Enschede
The register does not only call this oak old, it says which decade of the cemetery it belongs to.
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