Dvarcionys is the part of Vilnius people go to for the lake, not the history, a spot on the eastern edge of the city known for its beach, its forest paths and a natural spring the city also lists a...
Oak
Twelve oaks on this map carry only their genus, Quercus, because nobody has yet taken a leaf close enough to say which species each one is. This page maps every oak on the site, 15 so far across 13 cities.
That gap does not make them less worth the walk. Belfast's Belvoir Oak got down to six acorns one winter, all its crown could still manage, and is still standing. Ypres's Christusboom has been cut to nothing by two wars and grown back from the stump both times. Austin's Auction Oaks shaded the 1839 sale of town lots before the city existed, and the Seiders Oaks nearby saved a settler's life in a fight with mounted raiders three years later. Hainich's Betteleiche is hollow because medieval friars are said to have carved it out to keep alms dry. If you can tell a pedunculate from a sessile oak at a glance, tell us.
Vilnius
Haarlem
Two oaks flank the start of a footpath on the west side of Statenbolwerk, planted in the 1850s to mark the entrance the way a gate would, a decade or so before the villas that now line the park wen...
Martinsville, New Jersey
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People have tried to cut this oak down with axes and with chainsaws, and it is still standing, carrying the marks.
Austin
In August 1839 the lots of a city that did not yet exist were sold in the shade of these trees.
In the spring of 1842 Gideon White was out looking for livestock when riders caught him in the open.
Belfast
In the winter of 2016 a ranger counted the acorns on this oak.
Freiburg
The Alexandereiche is not named after Alexander von Humboldt, which is the first thing almost everyone assumes.
Graz
Both sources that describe this oak agree on exactly where it stands and neither can say which oak it is.
Hainich National Park
Monks are said to have cut a hollow into this oak so that the alms would stay dry.
Heerlen
The register's own name for this tree translates as simply "the oak of the neighbourhood", and its own note is almost as plain: almost certainly planted when the neighbourhood itself was built.
Heidelberg
The register calls this one simply Eiche, oak, and that omission is deliberate rather than sloppy.
Priekulė
Oaks in this part of Europe usually spread rather than climb.
To reach this oak you walk past a dead one.
Stuttgart
On 7 May 1515 Duke Ulrich of Württemberg took his stable master out hunting in this forest and killed him.
Ypres
Two wars cut this oak down to nothing, and it grew back from the stump both times.
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