The hawthorn at Tyl's house / Hloh u Tylova domku (Trebon - South Bohemia)
N 49° 00.315 E 014° 46.321
33U E 483326 N 5428064
Close to the so called Tyl's House (Tyluv dum) in Trebon you can find really magnificent specimen of the common hawthorn (hloh jednosemenný / Crataegus monogyna).
Waymark Code: WMBD44
Location: Jihočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 05/08/2011
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Close to the so called Tyl's House (Tyluv dum) in Trebon you can find really magnificent specimen of the common hawthorn (hloh jednosemenný / Crataegus monogyna).
This specimen of the common hawthorn has unusually twisted trunk of bizarre appearance, which is cracked, with hollows and is bounded by metal rings. In the Czech Republic are three by state protected hawthorn trees, but none of them is so old and large as this one.
Geniculate tree's trunk in the first glance reveals its really high age. The tree-ring analysis, performed by Dr. Peter Pokorný (Botanical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Trebon), gave precise information about the hawhorn's age - and it is 200 years! Using by a special hollow-drill was obtained sample of wood through a full trunk' radius and this sample was subsequently microscopically analyzed and number of tree-rings uncovered. Thanks to internal hollows in the trunk was the real number of tree-rings calculated also thanks to information about thickness of branches growing from the trunk. The accuraccy of the method is 10 years.