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Thirty metres of oak, and you will not see it until you are nearly underneath it. The Lithuanian description is blunt about that and says it is not visible from a distance. It grows in a damp corner of deciduous forest behind dense shrubs, and the screen holds until the last few steps. The trunk is 4.90 metres round at chest height, sound rather than hollow, under thick corky bark, and it divides into two separate stems 3.4 metres up. There are small animal burrows in the ground among the roots. Kaunas district protects it, and the state cadastre registered it on 29 December 2010. No age is on record anywhere. Nothing in the sources offers one and we are not going to reverse a girth into years to fill the gap. If a forestry survey has dated it, tell us. The distance is the other thing to be plain about. This oak sits 26 kilometres from the Vainiai Poplar in a straight line and further by road. Vainiai is the nearest place we publish rather than a neighbour, and there is no public transport to either. From road RK1916 it is a 1.3 kilometre field track to a small wood, then about 100 metres in through the undergrowth, and that last stretch is a search rather than a path. The Nevėžio Dvilypis Oak stands 4.4 kilometres away, which is how the drive out earns two trees instead of one.
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Getting there
Kukšiai Forest, about 1.3km west of road RK1916 between Užumiškiai and Kačergiai, Babtai eldership, Kaunas district
You can recognise it by the trunk, 4.90 metres round and unhollowed under thick corky bark, dividing into two separate stems 3.4 metres up. It stands about 100 metres inside the wood, screened by shrubs until you are close.
Free, public state forest (Kukšiai Forest); reached via road RK1916 then a field track (about 1.3km) to a small woodland, then about 100m into the forest through dense undergrowth. No gate, fee or restriction mentioned by any source.
No public transport; reached by car. About 25.7km by straight-line distance from Vainiai's own tree (vni_001, the Vainiai Poplar), the nearest published place; real road distance is greater and this is a separate car stop, not a walk. It is also about 4.4km from the Nevėžio Dvilypis Oak (this batch's vni_003), which is close enough to pair as one outing.
In fruit
September to October: acorns drop, and a good mast year buries the ground in them
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.
Sources
Where the facts on this page come from. The story was written with AI from these sources, and readers who know the tree correct it.
- In the official register: Saugomų teritorijų valstybės kadastras (STVK), no. 0310505010189
- lt.wikipedia.org
- stvk.lt
- krsvbiblioteka.lt
- Lietuvos Respublikos saugomų teritorijų valstybės kadastras (STVK), gamtos paveldo objektai, botanical objects, no. 0310505010189
