Seasons1 of 4
Somebody measured this oak in 1987 and somebody has measured it since, and between the two readings it is still putting on wood. The 1987 survey, made when Lithuania raised it from a local nature monument to one of republic-level significance, recorded a diameter of 1.5 metres, which comes out at roughly 4.7 metres round, and a height of 24 metres. Today the figures are 5.17 metres of girth and 25 metres of height. Half a metre of trunk and a metre of tree in four decades. Protection came first in 1960 and it is held now under a 2017 order of the Ministry of Environment. In its clearing the oak has a protective barrier around it and an information board beside it. Its age is given as about 300 years. That is the source's figure rather than one worked out here, and it is as precise as anybody has been willing to be. One thing to be clear about, because the address invites the wrong idea, is that this tree is not out in Žalgiriai. It stands on the southern edge of Šilutė itself, in a forest clearing about 300 metres off the Šilutė-Pagryniai road near Stadiono gatvė. The Hermann Sudermann Oak, which is the Žalgiriai tree, lies 4.3 kilometres away along the same local roads. The two make an obvious pairing for one afternoon, and nobody is walking from one to the other.
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300m northeast of the Šilutė-Pagryniai road, southern edge of Šilutė
You can recognise it by the protective barrier and the information board standing with it in a forest clearing, a 25 metre oak with a trunk 5.17 metres round. It is 300 metres off the Šilutė-Pagryniai road.
Free, public; the tree grows in a forest clearing, fenced with a protective barrier and an information board, no fee or restriction mentioned by any source.
No public transport identified to the clearing itself; reached by car or on foot from the Šilutė-Pagryniai road, near Stadiono gatvė on the southern edge of Šilutė town. About 4.3km by straight-line distance from Žalgiriai's own tree (zal_001, the Hermann Sudermann Oak), both reachable via the Šilutė area road network as a plausible same-day pairing, though not a walk between the two.
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. 0310505010081
- lt.wikipedia.org
- krastogidas.lt
- Lietuvos Respublikos saugomų teritorijų valstybės kadastras (STVK), gamtos paveldo objektai, botanical objects, no. 0310505010081