(un)Official account of the Ministry of Swedish Oak | Safeguarding Sweden's arboreal heritage | Growing a sustainable future rooted in nature's strength
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2 Dec 2024
It’s time for the daily year-end countdown of the 31 stoutest oaks 🌳 in Sweden 🇸🇪!
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The 31st stoutest oak in Sweden is the 'Elleholm Oak' in Blekinge. It has a circumference of 8.24 meters (325 inches).
📷 Naturum Blekinge
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Great news!
There is still life left in the mighty Kvilleken!
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The Oak of Väderstad. My new friend 🌳🌳🌳
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6 Jun 2025
Do you also find yourself staring at a tree and losing track of time?
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26 May 2025
Crown Princess Victoria visited the world's thickest oak tree – the Kville Oak, which has a circumference of over 14 meters. The trip was part of her ambition to visit all 30 of Sweden's national parks
📷 Kungahuset
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1 May 2025
I paid a visit to my old friend, the Bosgård Oak - a mighty tree with a circumference of 8.5 meters, standing proudly near the E4 highway in Östergötland!
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21 Mar 2025
Greetings from me and my new found Vietnamese friend!
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19 Mar 2025
Found an amazing banyan tree in the backstreets of Hanoi 💚
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’Oaks and Cars’
Part 1/ ‘Odder’
📷 Christian Overby
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Oak and Cars
Part 18/ ‘Big Belly’
📷 Constable & Robinsson
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Oak and car
Part 19/
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31 Dec 2024
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Nº 1 on the daily year-end countdown of Sweden’s 🇸🇪 stoutest Oaks is Kvilleken!
It’s considered to be Sweden's oldest and largest tree, if not the largest oak in all of Europe in terms of girth. It measures 14 meters in circumference and is at least a thousand years old.
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It's hard to imagine all that this oak has witnessed 🌳
Happy New Year wishes from the Swedish forests!
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31 Dec 2024
Happy new year to all friends out there!
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Nº 2 on the daily year-end countdown of Sweden’s 🇸🇪 stoutest Oaks is:
• Nynäsgårdseken
• Circumference: 10.45 metres (412”)
• Located 45 minutes outside of Stockholm
Tomorrow will reveal Sweden’s and the world’s stoutest Oak!
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2 Dec 2024
It’s time for the daily year-end countdown of the 31 stoutest oaks 🌳 in Sweden 🇸🇪!
🌳 3️⃣1️⃣ 🍃
The 31st stoutest oak in Sweden is the 'Elleholm Oak' in Blekinge. It has a circumference of 8.24 meters (325 inches).
📷 Naturum Blekinge
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Nº 10 on the daily year end countdown of Swedens’s 🇸🇪 thickest Oaks is ‘Hjälmåkraeken’ in Småland.
It has a circumference of 9.6 m (378”) and, unlike most other Oaks of this size, it’s almost totally unknown and forgotten.
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Nº 9 on the daily year end countdown of Swedens’s 🇸🇪 thickest Oaks is ‘Närtunaeken’, located about one hour north of Stockholm. It has a circumference of 9.63 metres (379”) and doesn’t receive many visitors these days.
Tomorrow will reveal a regal celebrity 🌳
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Nº 3 on the daily year end countdown of Swedens’s 🇸🇪 thickest Oaks is ‘Ekebyhovseken’. It lives on Ekerö in western Stockholm and has a circumference of 10.35 metres (407”). By mass, it’s the biggest in 🇸🇪
Tomorrow will reveal another Stockholm Giant!
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The skeleton of the once huge, 8 meters girthed, ’Lojstaeken’ on Gotland - 🇸🇪
He has surpassed the age of 1000, so it's not surprising that he looks tired
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Nº 4 on the daily year-end co untdown of Sweden’s 🇸🇪 stoutest Oaks is:
- Gällstaöeken .
- Circumference: 10.25 metres (403”).
- Located on the island Ekerö just outside of Stockholm.
- Estimated to be between 400 and 500 years old.
📷 Niklas Engström
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