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In 1951, when it died, the pine tree had a circumference of 4.63 metres. It was the thickest pine tree in the Baltic States
This is one of the few trees with such a long history for which age has been determined by counting up circles – 370 years. All that’s left is a conserved part of the stump at the side of the road. Cross-sections of the stump are on exhibit at the Latvian Museum of Nature and the Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum.
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The oldest apple tree in Lithuania is a forest apple tree and is part of the country's botanical heritage and the only protected apple tree in Lithuania. |
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This is one of the rare cases in which we know precisely when the trees were planted. It was in 1685 and 1689, and they were planted by the priest of the local congregation, Ernest Johann Glück (1654-1705) in commemoration of the fact that he had completed the translation into Latvian of the Old Testament and the New Testament respectively.
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This is the thickest and tallest common ivy in Latvia. It is in the park of the Zentene Estate, opposite the mansion (which is now a school).
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This is the thickest Black Alder (Alnus glutinosa) in Latvia
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A very beautiful and expressive tree, it is found on the land of what was once the Vīceži Semi-estate.
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This is Latvia’s thickest common pine (Pinus slyvestris)
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This is the thickest wild pear tree in Latvia. The tree is particularly beautiful when it is blossoming.
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Most of the great tree’s mighty branches are gone, and among those that are still there, the thickest ones are held up by supports, and the tree’s hollow centre is protected against snow and rain with a little roof. This is the thickest Common Oak (Quercus robur) in Latvia and the Baltic States. Indeed, it is one of the thickest oak trees in all of Northern Europe. The tree is a gorgeous part of the surrounding landscape. There is a car park and an information stand nearby.
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This is the second thickest tree in Latvia and the Baltic States. There is a large and open hole in the trunk of the tree. Like most trees of its size, it has suffered lightning damage. The tree is a wonderful part of the landscape, and a little wooden fence has been put up around it.
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This is the thickest birch (Betula pendula) tree in Latvia and can be seen from the Klapkalnciems-Milzkalne road.
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This tree is the one in Latvia and perhaps the Baltic States that has the densest foliage. Its crown measures 33 x 31 metres.
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This is the thickest and mightiest Norwegian spruce (Picea abies) in Latvia. Its monolithic trunk, with its small holes, is unusual. The tree is in the overgrown park of the former Īve Estate, behind the ruins of the mansion.
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This is an unusually shaped pine which, according to legend, was planted by the king of Sweden during the Great Northern War.
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The tree is on the side of a hillock, and its visible roots are unusually huge.
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This tree, too, was supposedly planted by the king of Sweden – and upside down, no less.
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This is the thickest English oak (Quercus robur) in Lithuania, with a circumference of 9.4 m (as opposed to the Kaive oak in Latvia, which has a circumference of 10.18 m).
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This is a large, outstanding and expressive tree, Latvia’s thickest Norway Maple (Accer platanoides).
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Before a great storm in 2005, this was one of the tallest and most noble lime trees in Latvia. Now only one branch is still alive.
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Turbu dižozols aug Mazās Juglas stāvkrastā, atpūtas kompleksa Turbas teritorijā. Dižozols ir aptuveni 800 gadu vecs, tā apkārtmērs ir 7,1 m, augstums - 27 m, vainags 18x16 m. Dižozols ir ļoti labā stāvoklī. Zaļo viss vainags. Ozolā ligzdo pūce, kā arī iecienījuši daudzi citi putni. Zinātāji runā, ka Ozols ir ar spēcīgu dziedniecisku enerģiju. |
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