I am Gundula, the royal plane tree
Since my planting in 2000, I live here in the Restaurant les halles and I have grown 21 m high.
A magnificent crown adorns (decorates) me. With it I evaporate more than 50'000 l of water a year (1 bathtub/day). This makes it up to 6 degrees cooler under me on hot days. The area of all my leaves is 2'380 m2 - nine tennis courts.
Bats, dormice (Siebenschläfer) and other small mammals find shelter with me.
QUESTION:
What is the volume of my crown?
Answer: 1700 m3, which is equivalent to over 33,000 banana boxes or 300,000 footballs
02_Gundula-die-königliche-Platane_les-halles.pdf (737.74 kb)
Notes:
The survivor, Story telling, dramatic story
During road construction in 2010 expropriation up to the building line, owner wanted to save Gundula and went all the way to federal court
Biodiversity index, good with small mammals, not so good with birds, insects
Pleasant courtyard climate thanks to Gundula's tree crown
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