This oak is the oldest in the Andaines forest. He is 300 years old. It is named after a local forester who tended the forest from the late 1800s until the early 1900s.

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January 19, 2020

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Less than three kilometers from Bagnoles de l'Orne in the Ferté-Macé forest massif stands an immense oak tree, three hundred years old. The Hippolyte oak is the oldest oak tree in the Andaines forest and without a doubt the most imposing. It stands in the middle of a plot planted with beech and spruce.

The 30-meter-high tree has a circumference of 5.26 m to 1.30 m from the ground. This popular oak tree is nicknamed Hippolyte in tribute to the former forest ranger Hippolyte Foinet who restored the tree in the early 20th century.

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Martial MANDON

June 20, 2023

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Around the trunk the moss points north.

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