TREES PROTECTED BY LAW IN POLAND ON THE EXAMPLE OF WROCŁAW CITY
Abstract
Trees are the basic element of each landscape: natural as well as urban. There are less and less greenery in continually growing cities and high buildings appeared in place of trees. Wrocław is one of the biggest cities in Poland situated in south west part of the country. The area has the longest vegetation season and mildest winter period in the whole land. This enables cultivation of plants that originate from warmer climate areas. There are 174 nature monuments registered as single trees, tree groups and tree alleys in Wrocław. They belong to 28 species out of which 11 are native and 17 are introduced. The most common tree between the monument in Wrocław is common oak (Quercus robur). This species and plane tree are the thickest and circumference of trunk same of them was bigger than 500 cm. The article present also occurrence of monument trees in Wroclaw districts.
Nature monument, district, single tree, alley, trees group, circumference of trunk.
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