Published 5 August 2021 at 18.42
Domestic. Sweden's tallest tree, the so-called Mölnbacka spruce, is dead. The Christmas tree was 49.6 meters high, writes SVT Nyheter Värmland.
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The Mölnbacka spruce, which began to grow in the late 19th century, was eventually defeated by its natural enemy, the spruce bark beetle.
It was a spruce of the type picea abies in Latin or Norwegian Spruce in English.
It was members from the website Skogsforum.se who found the record spruce in Mölnbacka in October 2018.
That the spruce was found in Värmland was no coincidence. There are exactly the conditions required for spruces to thrive extra well. Long slopes with water seeping down all the time. Many of the slopes are located on hyperite mountains where the mineral hyperite enriches the forest soil. Värmland is also located far enough south in the country to have a long growing season.
The article has been corrected. The tree was Sweden's tallest, not the oldest.