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[10] n/a Hannäs, Åtvidaberg, Östergötland County [11] [12] Wych elm: Stoutest wych elm in Sweden, circumference of 7.8 m n/a Svensbo, Torpön, Ydre, Östergötland County [13] [14] Hybrid, likely between Nordmann fir and silver fir: Stoutest hybrid fir in Sweden, 5.3 m n/a Asby, Ydre, Östergötland County [13] [15] Common oak: Oldest non ...
A forest in Dalarna. Sweden is covered by 68% forest. [1] In southern Sweden, human interventions started to have a significant impact on broadleaved forests around 2000 years ago, where the first evidence of extensive agriculture has been found. [2]
The Ekeby oak tree (Swedish: Ekebyhovseken) is an oak tree in Ekerö outside Stockholm, Sweden, close to Ekebyhov Castle. It is the largest living deciduous tree in Sweden by volume. [1] The Ekeby oak is approximately 500 years old. [2] It was declared a natural monument in 1956. [3]
The location of the trees is In 1985, the Ornäs birch was named as the national tree of Sweden, [ 1 ] and examples have been planted in central locations in many Swedish towns. In that same year, the first eight Betula pendula 'Dalecarlica' were exported to Pretoria, South Africa, from a nursery in Germany, by an avid tree lover, Karl Ernst Haese.
[10] On July 1, 2024, it was reported that the Stockholm-based art studio Goldin+Senneby were building a climate-controlled installation at a new hospital campus in Malmö , Sweden. The installation houses a clone of Old Tjikko and was created using small twigs cut from Old Tjikko's top branches, which were then grafted onto stems of other ...
It is 14 metres (46 ft) high, with a trunk approximately 13 metres (43 ft) in circumference and a volume of approximately 60 cubic metres (78 cu yd), making it one of the largest trees in Sweden. [4] According to Eksjö Municipality , it is the oldest tree in Scandinavia and the largest in circumference.
[64] Without its protective bark, the tree died soon after, and what remained was destroyed in a 1908 fire. [65] National Christmas Tree: Blue spruce (Picea pungens) President's Park in Washington, D.C., US It was 9 meters (30 feet) tall when it was transplanted from York, Pennsylvania, in 1978. It was felled by a windstorm on 19 February 2011.
Carl Linnaeus [a] (23 May 1707 [note 1] – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, [3] [b] was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". [4]