Odolanka, the Poplar of Odolany

The neighbourhood asked for this one. In 2017, with new housing going up around them in Odolany, residents petitioned to have their black poplar protected before the ground under it could be cleared. The City of Warsaw's own page about the tree is dated 19 May that year. The Wola district board gave a positive opinion, and the council signed the designation on 4 October. What they kept is not one trunk but three, rising symmetrically from a shared base and measuring, at the widest point the city recorded, more than 600 centimetres round the lot of them. It reaches roughly the height of a five-storey block, which in Odolany means level with the windows of the flats it grows beside. Locally it is simply Odolanka, and the city's page calls it a symbol of the neighbourhood. Black poplar is a floodplain species, built for wet ground and quick growth, with a heavily fissured, often burred trunk and leaves on flattened stalks that shake at almost no wind at all. It is the sound of the tree as much as the shape of it. Nobody has dated it, and no one has separated those three trunks into individual measurements. If you know either, tell us. Nothing since 2017 reports it gone.