The pine of the Rumšiški Forest is the thickest pine in Lithuania. Its trunk reaches 4 meters at the bottom. Unlike most trees, pine trees do not thin out, but get thicker as they grow upwards. At a height of 2 meters, the thickness of the trunk is even 5 meters. The downward thinning of the trunk is typical of felled trees. In the pine of Rumšiškii, the scars made by the convicts are still visible - a wound of a meter-long cut. Before the war, you say it was used for the turpentine and rosin industry. A variety of products were made from sap: shoe polish, floor wax, even hand and face creams. Folklore also says that the pine tree was milked by witches, who collected its sap as a delicacy for feasts. The tall, 32-meter-high trunk of the tree was exhausted not only by the sap pickers, but also by the flames of the fires. With repeated forest floor fires, the pine bark has thinned from the heat at the base. There are still traces of carbon in it. The high branches were not touched by the fire. Several of them are now secured with ropes. Physical data of the tree: Trunk circumference at a height of 1.3 m - 4 m Height - 32 m Age - about 400 years
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