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’Kvilleken’ (The Oak of Kvill) in Småland
Confirmed to be over 1000 years old and with a circumference of over 14 metres, one of the girthiest Oaks known
😊🌳
📷 Stellan Svensson
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One of the biggest trees in Europe:
The mighty Ivanecker Eiche in 🇩🇪
📷 Jeroen Philippona via
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This gnarly old beauty called ‘The Goblin Oak’ was only a seedling in the 11th century
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’Kvilleken’ is considered to be Sweden's oldest and largest tree, if not the largest oak in all of Europe in terms of girth. It measures 14 meters in circumference and is at least a thousand years old. It's hard to imagine all that this oak has witnessed 🌳
📷 Örjan Karlsson
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One of the true great Oaks of the world: Die Ivanecker Eiche in 🇩🇪
📷 Marlis
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The city of Ängelholm is constructing a new road, and in its path stood an 80-year-old oak tree
This is how they moved a 100-ton Oak - a thread 🧵
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One of the true great Oaks trees of the world:
Ivanecker Eiche in 🇩🇪
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The biggest Oak in Sweden (in terms of volume) - ‘Ekebyhovseken’
These two photos are taken 100 years apart - the 1920s and the 2020s 🙂🌳
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Kvilleken - The King of Kings
Over 1000 years old and over 14 metres in circumference 👑🌳
📷 Gert Olsson
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The second stoutest Oak in Sweden - the huge ’Nynäsgårdseken’
🌳🙂
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Show me your favourite tree 🌳
This is mine: My ord friend ‘Ekebyhovseken’
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The ’Big Tree’ - Goose Island - Texas - 🇺🇸
Estimated to be around 1000 years old, making it possibly the oldest known live oak
📷 Nicholls
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This oak, called ‘Trolleken’ (the Goblin Oak) was an acorn at the time when the Magna Carta was written and Genghis Khan conquered the world
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’Skovfogedegen’ (The Forester’s Oak) in Copenhagen - 🇩🇰
800 years old and still going strong 🙂
📷 Hans Erik Lund
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‘The Sacred Okusu’ - the biggest tree in Japan and believed to be over 1600 years old
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The biggest Oaks in Europe by country - A to Z: Latvia 🇱🇻
‘Kaives Ozols’
10.54 metres in circumference
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One of the biggest and oldest Oaks trees in 🇸🇪 - The ‘Thousand-years-Oak’
🌳😀
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Sometimes you just have to sit in tree and chill
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The lonely Oak of Ulvs Väsby
Once the unrivalled king of the forest - now surrounded by a spruce plantation
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A thread about history of Swedish Oaks
The oak migrated to Sweden about 9000 years ago as the climate warmed following the Ice Age
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Happy
#ThickTrunkTuesday
from me and my gnarly old friend - The Oak of Häggvik who have a waistline of more than 8 metres!
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The remarkable ‘Faig Pare’ (Fagus sylvatica) of La Senia - Catalonia - 🇪🇸
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The pride and joy of the nation - the Paavolan Oak in Lohsa - 🇫🇮
📷 visitlohja
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Kvilleken - The stoutest Oak known to man
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‘The Sacred Okusu’ - the biggest tree in Japan and believed to be over 1600 years old
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The Crooked Forest of Gryfino - 🇵🇱
400 pine trees with an identical curve. No one knows why they are shaped like this or if they're man-made or not.
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The ancient hollow ‘Wishing Oak’ of Hässelby
Generations of children growing up here has played inside it. Hopefully many future generations can do the same
🌳😀
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The ’Dragon Tree’ of Torna Hällestad in Skåne - 🇸🇪
📷 Mats Reslow
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Autumn Oaks on the Royal Djurgården in Stockholm 🍂
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The old Oak of Urshult in Småland - 🇸🇪
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@Morbidful
A child is pulled through a tree in Uppland (Sweden) to recover from the Spanish flu in 1918.
By pulling the child through a hollow in a tree at a certain time of day, it was believed that the child would emerge on the other side as a newborn, free from illness.
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’Kongeegen’ (The King’s Oak) in - 🇩🇰
It’s estimated to be between 1500 and 2000 years old which makes it one of the world’s oldest known oak trees
📷 Skovdyrkerne
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A
#ThickTrunkTuesday
shoutout to all tree people out there:
Take the chance to visit the worlds thickest (14 metres in girth) living Oak tree before it’s too late! Every year could be the last for 1000 years old giant, called ’Kvilleken’ 🌳🙂
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The biggest Oaks in Europe by country - A to Z:
France 🇫🇷
‘Chêne de Tronjoly’
12.6 metres in circumference
📷 J.C Even
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This gnarly old beauty called ‘The Goblin Oak’ was only a seedling when Genghis Khan was born in the 11th century
💚🌳💚🌳💚
#ThickTrunkTuesday
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Let me present one of the winners of the yearly contest ‘Sweden’s goofiest tree’ : This magnificent Oak who lives in Skåne
📷 My Berggren
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This huge old lady is, despite her size and character, unknown with no info to be found online. She’s 8,4 metres (27 feet) thick and lives by a small road in Östergötland. A new favourite!
#giantoak
#thicktrunktuesday
@TheKentAcorn
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The elm tree behind Astrid Lindgren’s childhood home in Näs, Småland.
It was the inspiration for the Lemonade Tree in Pippi Longstocking 🌳😯
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The huge 800 years old ‘Grabeiche’ in Nöddenitz - 🇩🇪
📷 Han van Meegeren
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Ullebergeika in Vestvold - 🇳🇴
It started its life as a small seedling at same time as the 100 Years War was ravaging Europe
🌳😦
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’Raunkiærs eg’ in 🇩🇰
One of many impressive Oaks in Dyrehave just north of Copenhagen and a favourite of mine 🙂
📷 Christian Overby
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The 900 year-old Oak of Trollskogen on Öland
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It’s time for the daily year end countdown of the 31 stoutest oaks🌳 in Sweden🇸🇪
🌳3️⃣1️⃣🍃
The thirty-first stoutest oak in Sweden is ‘Elleholmseken’ in Blekinge. It has a circumference of 8.24 metres (325”).
📷 Naturum Blekinge
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The ’Haunted Oak’ of Tärnö, Blekinge - 🇸🇪
📷Eva Torén
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Happy
#ThickTrunkTuesday
from me and my chunky old friend, who’s probably 850 years older than me 🌳😃
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The biggest Oaks in Europe by country - A to Z: Ireland 🇮🇪
The King Oak
8.57 metres in circumference
📷 Thomas Pakenham
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The stoutest living Oak tree - ‘Kvilleken’ in Småland - 🇸🇪
Due to a long and full life - every summer could be its last
📷 Örjan Karlsson
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Happy
#ThickTrunkTuesday
from and one of the thickest Oaks in Scandinavia - the 10.6 metres thick ‘Ulvedalsegen’ in København - 🇩🇰
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Today I’m starting a countdown of the 31 thickest oaks🌳 in Sweden🇸🇪
Nº 31: Elleholmseken in Blekinge. It has a circumference of 8.24 metres (325”).
Photo: Naturum Blekinge
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Nº 1 on the daily year-end countdown of Sweden’s 🇸🇪 stoutest Oaks is:
• KVILLEKEN
• Circumference: 14 (551”) metres which makes the stoutest Oak in the world!
Happy New Year to all a tree friends!
🥳🎄🎉🌲
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Alone and surrounded
A solitary Oak in a spruce plantation
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So here is the complete 🧵with the 31 thickest Oaks in Sweden.
Part 1: # 1-15
🌱 1 🍃
KVILLEKEN in Småland
14.10 metres in circumference
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The biggest Oaks in Europe by country - A to Z: Sweden 🇸🇪
‘Kvilleken’
Circumference: Over 14 metres
📷 Gert Olsson
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The Tale of Sweden’s Naval Oaks
In the early 19th century, there were concerns that the oak forests in Sweden would not be sufficient for the future needs of the navy. Therefore, the parliament decided to establish oak plantations
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‘Ekebyhovseken’
▪️The biggest Oak in Sweden (84 m³)
▪️Circumference: 10.4 metres
▪️Approximately 500 years old
🌳💚
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’Lojstaeken’ on Gotland
Once a mighty Oak. Now home to 100s of different species
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’Trolleken’ (The Haunted Oak) on Öland. This gnarly creature is 800 years old living his best life
📷 David Sandberg
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Today, less than half a percent of the deciduous forest remains in the European nemoral zone.
Yet, few champion the cause of deciduous forests and tropical rainforests attract more attention in Sweden
📷 Lahall
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Happy
#ThickTrunkTuesday
from Fiskgökaeken in Blekinge which we recently revisited! A truly magnificent creature
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‘Kvilleken' - the stoutest oak known, estimated to be over 1000 years old. Due to its poor health, every spring could potentially be its last.
Photo by Oliver Wittman. Taken February 2024
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The second stoutest Oak in Sweden - the huge ’Nynäsgårdseken’
🌳🙂
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The small sign on the Oak says: ”Natur minne” which means that the oak is protected. Like a one tree nature reserve 🌳
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Happy
#ThickTrunkTuesday
from me and my thick friend ‘Raunkiærs Eg’ who lives in Copenhagen 🙂🌳
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Why stand on the ground when you can stand in an Oak?
📷 Simon Stihl Trying
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‘Grabeiche’ in Nöbdenitz - 🇩🇪
Circumference: 10.35 metres
📷 Rainer Lippert
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The big Oak of Klackebäck in Blekinge
📷 Henrik Olsson
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One of many Oaks of Strömsholms Castle!
📷 Naturfotoparet
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The second stoutest Oak in Sweden - the huge ’Nynäsgårdseken’
🌳🙂
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The national pride of Latvia:
The huge ancient ‘Ancestor Oak-tree’ in Kaive
🇱🇻😯🌳
📷 Claudia Bondone
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Public service announcement:
Take the chance to visit the worlds thickest (14 metres in girth) living Oak tree before it’s too late.
Every year could be the last for 1000 years old giant, called ’Kvilleken’.
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The 500 years old ‘Wishing Oak’ of the Stockholm suburb Hässelby
📷 Maria Hedlund
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The Brian Burú Oak on Ireland 🇮🇪
Believed to be over 1,000 years old
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One of the biggest Oaks in 🇸🇪
The 10-meter stout 'Gällstaöeken,' who lives just outside of Stockholm.
📷 Niklas Engström
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A solitary Oak close to the royal castle Drottningholm
🌳👑
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The WINNER of the daily year end countdown of Swedens’s 🇸🇪 thickest Oaks is ‘Kvilleken’. It lives in Småland and has a circumference of 14 metres (551”) which also makes it the stoutest in Europe.
A true living Legend!
Happy New Year 🥳🎆🎉🍾
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One of the biggest Oaks in Sweden - ‘Wennerbergseken’ on Kållandsö 🌳🙂
📷 Gert Olsson
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The Nº 25 on the year-end countdown list of Sweden's stoutest Oaks is:
- ’Bosgårdseken’ in Östergötland.
- Circumference: 8.57 metres.
Tomorrow will reveal an unknown giant living in an industrial park outside of Stockholm😮
📷 Markus Eklund
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The biggest Oaks in Europe by country - A to Z: Portugal 🇵🇹
‘Carvalho de Calvos’
7.62 metres in circumference
📷 Rui_f74
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The Giant Oak tree of Strömstad, Bohuslän - 🇸🇪
Circumference: 8.3 metres
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Cork oak endures drought and makes little demand on the soil quality and is regarded as a defence against desertification.
Since cork is increasingly being displaced by other materials as a bottle cap, these forests are at risk threatening the Iberian lynx and imperial eagles
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Happy
#ThickTrunkTuesday
folks!
This is the third thickest Oak in 🇸🇪 and has a circumference of over 10 metres!
Have a great day 💚🌳😀
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