Wilhelmina had been queen for eight years before anyone crowned her.
Lime
These are the limes nobody has narrowed to a single species, planted or grown before anyone thought to record which Tilia they were, which is common enough with a genus this widely hybridised that the honest label is simply Tilia sp. This page maps every lime on the site, 9 so far across 7 cities.
Amsterdam's Wilhelminalinde went into the ground on the Kalverstraat to mark Queen Wilhelmina's 1898 coronation and is a tidy, dateable 128 years old. Nuremberg's gnarled lime at the Hallerwiese has taken lightning and storm damage across some three and a half centuries and is still putting on growth, damaged and healthy in the same trunk. Frankfurt's eight-stemmed linden in Grüneburgpark is not one tree that happened to fork; it is a deliberate bundle planting, several saplings set into one hole so they would fuse into a single crown, rare enough to be a protected natural monument in its own right.
Amsterdam
This lime went into the ground on 31 January 1938, the day Princess Beatrix was born.
Nijmegen
Nijmegen crowned a queen with a tree.
Groningen
Ten of these eleven lindens are hollow, and they are still standing because somebody bolted them back together in the 1980s.
This lime was planted for a wedding that took place five hundred kilometres away.
Utrecht
Park a car under a lime in July and you learn not to do it twice.
Frankfurt
Eight trunks come out of the ground here in one tight ring, and they are a single tree.
Heerlen
The register bands this lime to the 1600s, which would make it three to four centuries old, decades older than the plane tree across the road that already carries Heerlen's own claim to the city's...
Nuremberg
Lightning has struck this lime and a storm has taken pieces off it, and it is still putting on growth.
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