Rumšiškių forest pušis

Graži vieta, Kauno apskritis

Rumšiškių miško pušis grows in Rumšiškės forest, Kaišiadorys district municipality, about 350 meters southeast of the site of the former children's camp Kauno marios. Declared a botanical natural monument in 2000, it is considered the thickest pine tree in Lithuania, with a trunk circumference of around 5 meters near the base, a height of about 32 meters, and an estimated age of some 400 years. The bark carries a meter-long scar left by pre-war resin tapping, when the sap was processed into turpentine, rosin, shoe polish, floor wax and hand creams, as well as charcoal marks from past forest fires.