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Tallest tree in Sweden, 49.3 m n/a Mölnbacka, Forshaga, Värmland County [5] Common oak: Largest deciduous tree in Sweden by volume Ekeby oak: Ekerö, Stockholm County [6] Common juniper: Stoutest and oldest juniper in Sweden, 2.8 m and about 600 years old. n/a Rå, Askersund, Örebro County [3] Silver fir: Tallest tree in Sweden, 49.5 m.
The tree's age was determined by carbon-14 dating of the root system, which found roots dating back to 375, 5,660, 9,000, and 9,550 years before 2008. [7] Carbon dating is not accurate enough to pin down the exact year the tree sprouted from seed; however, given the estimated age, the tree is supposed to have sprouted around 7550 B.C.
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]
Beech (Fagus sylvatica) is the dominant tree species in the region of Skåne and along a narrow strip of the west coast. [10] This is called the nemoral zone. Forest herbs in this zone typically vegetate and flower in spring, as the crown of beech is very dense, and little light reaches the ground once the leaves appear.
Ekeby oak tree in May 2012. 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.
The crown is columnar or conic in young trees, becoming rounded with age, with branches angled upwards. The leaves are green above, and densely hairy with white hairs beneath. 7–12 cm (2.8–4.7 in) long and 5–8 cm (2.0–3.1 in) broad, the leaves are lobed, with six to nine oval lobes on each side of the leaf.
Scandosorbus intermedia or, formerly, Sorbus intermedia, the Swedish whitebeam, [2] is a species of whitebeam found in southern Sweden, with scattered occurrences in Estonia, Latvia, easternmost Denmark , the far southwest of Finland, and northern Poland.