The Giant is a
London plane
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tree, located in the city
Chojna,
Poland. It is one of the thickest trees in the country.
[Polish Monumental Trees Register (PMTR)]
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The name of the tree in Polish
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– ''Olbrzym'' – means a very large, huge thing (even a person).[Wiktionary - olbrzym]
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''The Giant'' is about 300 years old, according to the dendrochronological research,[Cezary Pacyniak. ''Najstarsze drzewa w Polsce''. PTTK Kraj. 1992. p.?.] and once stood in the ''Viereck'scher Garten''. It is a monumental, 35 m[Krzysztof Borkowski, Robert Tomusiak, Paweł Zarzyński. ''Drzewa Polski''. PWN. 2016. p.452] tall tree with a trunk
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circumference of 1066 cm (in 2014, at the narrowest place, 0.45 m high).[Krzysztof Borkowski. ''Polskie drzewa''. DALPO. 2014. p.42] Its circumference at breast height (CBH) is 11 m (in 2015).[Monumental trees]
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This plane has a large, probably multistemmed, ellipsoid trunk. It forks at heights of 2.5 and 5 m, creating a large crown.[Chojna locality]
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The Giant Plane is the third thickest tree in Poland, and the largest and oldest London plane
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major se ...
in the country.
References
Further reading
# Paweł Zarzyński, Robert Tomusiak, Krzysztof Borkowski, ''Drzewa Polski'', PWN, Warszawa, 2016,
# Krzysztof Borkowski, ''Polskie drzewa'', Wyd. DALPO, Poznań, 2014,
# Paweł Zarzyński, Robert Tomusiak, ''90 drzew - Okazy niezwykłe'' Centrum Informacyjne Lasów Państwowych, Warszawa, 2014,
See also
* Bartek oak
* Bażyński Oak
The Bażyński Oak is an oak tree and natural monument in Poland. It is one of the oldest trees in Poland, whose age is estimated at around 716 years according to dendrochronological research.Cezary Pacyniak. ''Najstarsze drzewa w Polsce''. PTTK K ...
* Jagiełło Oak
The Jagiełło Oak is the most noted of the Białowieża Forest oaks. The tree was blown down on November 2, 1974, at which time it had a circumference of at breast height and a height of ; it had large branches and a well-developed crown. The f ...
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Individual trees in Poland
Natural monuments of Poland
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Flora of Poland
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