Barrel oak

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Ton oak in 2005

The barrel oak (Polish: Dąb Beczka) was an oak in the Białowieża National Park .

The location of this oak is in sector 544 of the national park. It reached the largest trunk circumference of the oaks in the national park with 740 cm at a height of 130 cm from the base. The height of the tree was over 30 m. The tree is dead today - it dried up in 1992, the trunk is now already largely without bark . The name comes from the barrel-shaped shape of the trunk.

The age of this oak was estimated to be 450 years.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 40 ′ 5 "  N , 23 ° 44 ′ 48"  E